 M-15E Amazon Support Vehicle
Dimensions: 7.3m x 2.4m x 2.7m
Powerplant: 1 x Micro-Fusion Bottle
Propulsion: 8 x Michilen RT-365 Spherical Tires
Crew: 2 - Driver and TC. Up to 24 passengers.
Weapons:
Varies. Standard "Mechanised Infantry Combat" versions carry: 1 x 120mm
Deeplight Cannon, 1 x Heavy Plasma Tribarrel OR 2 Heavy Quadbarrel
Powerguns. 3 APFC belts around chassis.
An old design, crammed
full of upgrades and still going, the Amazon "battlebus" has seen
service everywhere from Mexico to Tibet and back again - and hasn't
quit yet. Amazons prowl the perimeter of Acanceh, haunt the ruins of
Mohaborad, and a few even stalk the seabed around Nemo as maintenance
units.
With modern air traffic control networks now
omnipresent, the Board has had to accept it can't throw its massive air
power around quite as casually as it would like. After all, RADAR
stealth and so on is all very well, but all it takes is one blown fuse
(or one idiot lobbing fireballs) to light you up like a
proverbial Christmas tree and really upset NORAD. Hence, the
Amazon - a heavy-duty APC and general equipment hauler. Put simply they
are a rugged all-terrain transport vehicle with a hundred different
loadouts. If you leave the turret off, it is just sane enough
to not turn heads rolling down city streets.
Well, many heads. You'll need the PSIOPS version with the
Somebody-Else's-Problem meme emitters if you want to use it to haul
artillery.
Regarded
as an old warhorse by most Boardies (and therefore "tried, true, and
far better than any newfangled stuff" by the oldbies...and "dude, it
doesn't even fly! Useless!" by the newbs), Amazons are a common
sight in Board equipment bays and vehicle parks, and dozens of them
have been "seeded" in hidden caches around areas the Board anticipate
trouble. Chase a Boardie down the wrong alley, and you may suddenly
find (s)he has acquired Wheels. Operations dream of the day
they can ambush a certain black convertable with a few Amazons...
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