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This is a scene sketch for a sequence I have stuck in my head, figured it was looking nice enough to upload. An Aludran S-3 Black Swan MBT, having lost an idler wheel, has parked partway inside an Omar library and turned her main gun away from a Chiran heavy sniper team trying to destroy her primary gunsight. The resolution to this involves a shy goat librarian walking over to talk to the commander because she hopes anyone intelligent enough to be in charge of such a machine must like books.
Due to Aludra constantly contesting its border with Etrusea, Aludran tanks at the time of the Battle of Omar were among the most advanced in service*, and the Chirans had no equivalent; their largest vehicles were Infantry Support Vehicles (ISVs) in the 50 ton range. The Black Swan (Chiran J-500 Tyrant, usually called "Amishi" ("monster") in full configuration, Etrusean Imperial Tiger (nicknamed "Leviathan")) was a heavy main battle tank with modular armament, with the full configuration weighing in at 97 tons, and armed with a 155mm main gun, coaxial 8.1mm machine gun and 40mm autocannon, and a second 8.1mm machine gun in the commander's flex mount (which can accept anything up to an automatic grenade launcher) with a dedicated 40mm anti-aircraft gun and optional mounting on it for tube-launched SAMs or ATGMs.
Knowing the superiority of their armour, the Aludrans constructed the three gigantic V-Class Transport Air Destroyers (Valiant, Vanguard and Victory) each of which could carry one hundred armoured vehicles. These semi-submersible aircraft were moved to Omar underneath decoy cargo ships and only took off once they were close to the landing beaches; Valiant is still on Omar today, and has become the framework of a small town.
(*This is why Lorii has mostly 70s-80s gear but a modern RPG-30, if anyone noticed that oddity)
Due to Aludra constantly contesting its border with Etrusea, Aludran tanks at the time of the Battle of Omar were among the most advanced in service*, and the Chirans had no equivalent; their largest vehicles were Infantry Support Vehicles (ISVs) in the 50 ton range. The Black Swan (Chiran J-500 Tyrant, usually called "Amishi" ("monster") in full configuration, Etrusean Imperial Tiger (nicknamed "Leviathan")) was a heavy main battle tank with modular armament, with the full configuration weighing in at 97 tons, and armed with a 155mm main gun, coaxial 8.1mm machine gun and 40mm autocannon, and a second 8.1mm machine gun in the commander's flex mount (which can accept anything up to an automatic grenade launcher) with a dedicated 40mm anti-aircraft gun and optional mounting on it for tube-launched SAMs or ATGMs.
Knowing the superiority of their armour, the Aludrans constructed the three gigantic V-Class Transport Air Destroyers (Valiant, Vanguard and Victory) each of which could carry one hundred armoured vehicles. These semi-submersible aircraft were moved to Omar underneath decoy cargo ships and only took off once they were close to the landing beaches; Valiant is still on Omar today, and has become the framework of a small town.
(*This is why Lorii has mostly 70s-80s gear but a modern RPG-30, if anyone noticed that oddity)
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Yeah, Aludra does benefit from having a lot of Alcacians (horse-people who average 12-14 feet tall and can get up to 18) which is also incidentally why they're never going to standardise an assault rifle since Etrusea has a lot of them too and AR rounds just annoy them.
I tend to go with the idea that they don't try to put them in armour, smaller aircraft or submarines because there isn't much benefit from their size, they're employed more places like battleship turrets and artillery crews where being able to manhandle enormous rounds is a big plus. Or they stick a ton of armour on them and give them an autocannon or a giant shield, which dates right back to the middle ages with Alcacian berserkers slowly walking towards enemy lines ignoring everything that was fired at them while bellowing that pain is an illusion, an illusion is a lie and no lie can fool them because they see only the true world. :P
Yeah, the Alcacian berserkers were a subset of the main religion who believed the ability to make things real through force of will had not been fully taken away from mortals and that if they had sufficient belief and focus they would be impossible to harm. Their legends are full of heroines and heroes with the power to do things like turn into mist, become invisible or even return from the dead.
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