The Halcyon Type-K APC is a versatile armoured transport vehicle in service with the Imperial Jade Navy. It is designed and built by Wernham-Hogg of the Jade Empire. Capable of transporting a 15-marine platoon, or a variety of alternative loadouts such as medical, logistical or command systems, it is the workhorse of the mechanized companies.
The Halcyon Type-K is lightly equipped with a coaxial 12.7mm coilgun and a T800 Graviton Lance DEW. It also has a flare and chaff launcher for protection and is outfitted with an automated SilverBrig vehicle-mounted situational awareness and active protection hard kill system, which can intercept short-range and fast-moving projectiles such as AGMs. The Halcyon Type-K utilises the Dragonscale composite armour system, the exact design of which is unknown but is believed to include heavy umi-tetsu mesh ceramics, void-titanium angular plating and several elastic layers protecting it from kinetic impacts, baffling jet and shaped charges using a shatter gap and crack deflection, among other characteristics. A thin coating of superconducting vitredeur is overlaid on top which permits the armour to absorb and reduce the damage received from directed energy weapons. The Halcyon Type-K uses a Wernham-Hogg A4 Hydrogen Cell Engine and has an operational range of 800 km off-road on internal fuel with a top speed of 60 kmph off-road. Its Bathymetric Hardlight generators allow it to traverse rough terrain and even hover unsupported for short periods. It has a theoretically unlimited flight ceiling, but higher elevations burn fuel much more rapidly and abrade the field retaining the hardlight photonic material. It is equipped with an onboard sensory suite used primarily for local defense, with spoofing systems to confuse attempts at accurate detection and the ability to actively interfere with incoming guidance systems. It has high survivability ratings with excellent crew escape ratings. The troop compartment has both rear and dorsal hatches to allow for multiple egress points. |
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