The Rebel Faction

SS Festung Panzer

Name: SS Festung Panzer
Designation: Heavy Tank

Crew: 7
Armor:
Main Chassis: 2 inches titanium alloy, 10 inches durasteel, 4 inches ablative
Turret: 1 inch titanium alloy, 4 inches durasteel, 1 inch ablative
Speed: 120 km/hr without weapons charged, 100 max with weapons charged, 80 km/hr efficient, 60 km/hr while weapons charging
Height: 5 meters
Length: 20 meters
Width: 8 meters
Weapons:
Turret: 135 mm cannon x1
20 mm cannon x1
Twin blaster cannon x2 coaxle
Air Defense Turret: Quad laser cannon x1
Main Chassis Front: 30mm chain gun x1
Twin blaster cannon x1 coaxle with chain gun
Main Chassis Rear: Twin blaster cannon x1

Description: The largest and most powerful tank developed by the SS, the Festung Panzer is designed to supplement units of Blitz Panzers, becoming the spearhead for tank sections. It's three twin blaster cannons can target infantry or light vehicles, while its 30mm chain gun, 20mm cannon, and 135mm cannon can obliterate enemy armor. Its quad laser cannon is good for air defense and, occasionally, additional rear support. The rear is the weakest area, with only a twin blaster cannon covering it.

It's armor is incredible. The main chassis has at least 14 inches of armor, both durasteel and ablative, as well as a 2-inch titanium alloy skin. In order to achieve minimum speed, the armor in the turret had to be shaved to 5 inches, but that is still enough to take multiple hits from lighter weapons and even a few from larger ones.

While the speed of the Festung Panzer may seem fast for its size and mass, much of the main chassis is consumed by the engines. The Festung Panzer uses a varient of a hydro-electric engine that yields a massive power output, the result of nanotech research and experiments with the Blitz Panzer and the Skorpion. Once again, the exhaust is emitted from the gap between the turret and the chassis, leaving the integrity of the hull intact.

The Festung Panzer is the first of the SS tanks to come with varying styles of camoflage. It is covered with a thin layer of fiberplast that changes color with the push of a button. It comes in varients of desert, urban, wooded, snow, plains, jungle, rocky, and night, each with a specific pattern to enable the tank to blend in with its surroundings. It is expected that more varients will come out in software update packages.

Sensors and communications on the Festung Panzer are also state of the art. The Festung incorporates visual, sonar, and radar scanning, all available at the navigator's station. It also comes with the latest in Imperial jamming and anti-jamming software as well as the line-of-sight stealth comm used in the Phantom Mk II.

As the Festung Panzer is such an advanced tank, security is quite tight. A new system of authorization has been devised, incorporating vocal patterns, retinal scans, palm and fingerprint readers, and DNA sampling of the tank commander and drivers before operation. Anti-intruder methods include dangerous electric shocks that are guaranteed to render a person unconscious or a droid inoperable.


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