Relias: Uprising (72 page)

As the Legionnaire's air-to-air fighter, the Blackshredder is a dominating force in air-to-air combat, being operated by a pilot and a navigator. With the ability to outrun and out maneuver Battlecrafts and Strykers, the Blackshredder holds the title as the fastest vehicle in the world with maximum speeds exceeding 1200 MPH. Powered by a miniaturized Ignata reactor and propelled by four Furo turbine jet engines with a single Gravplate creating the possibility of airborne immobility, the Blackshredder is perfectly designed for speed and stealth. Shaped very much like a Spectre, keeping faithful to its flat, triangular design, the Blackshredder has four anti-matter javelins placed internally in the craft's wings. To complete the ship's offensive package, two .50 caliber machine guns can be found on the top and bottom of the craft.

Stryker

Though it possesses air-to-air capabilities  , the Stryker's main purpose is served as a bomber and is often used for initial strikes, providing air support to ground forces while typically reserved for tactical airstrikes. And though it is less common, the Stryker will be used against larger enemy aircraft, most notably Battlecruisers, to lay down a steady stream of crippling bombardment. Due to its obvious weaknesses in air-to-air combat, a Stryker will rarely fly solo, usually working in conjunction with a Blackshredder or Primal support group. With a total of six anti-matter javelins at its disposal, the Stryker is the most dangerous first strike aircraft in the Legionnaire arsenal.  A Stryker can either return to base for a fresh batch of missiles or continue the assault with the twin particle cannons mounted on the tips of both wings.

Spectre

Loosely regarded as an aquatic fighter jet, Spectres are most appropriately described as 'underwater stealth fighters'. With a flat, triangular shape, the Spectre is powered by a miniaturized Ignata reactor that supply ample energy to its four aqua-jet thrusters. In order to give the craft maximum  maneuverability, dozens of smaller water jets are located at various points along the ship's body, firing in conjunction with the Spectre's turning, making it possible to successfully pull off sharp, controlled maneuvers at high speeds, the highest of which can reach an excess of 200 MPH. Similarly equipped to the airborne Blackshredder, the Spectre packs four anti-matter torpedoes with four additional particle turrets placed on both the top and bottom of the craft.

     Spectre's are designed for stealth. Being nearly invisible across a broad variety of radar detectors, the Spectre is most often deployed for stealth strikes against enemy freighters, battleships, and submarines, while engaging in the occasional subaquatic dogfight should the need arise.

Sweep Lasers

Using discoveries taken from the research conducted on Luke Semprys, Sweep Lasers were designed exclusively for use on the newly built Helio Battlecruisers, taking advantage of the tremendous output of the state-of-the-art Furo reactor, the Helio. Older cruisers such as the Mystos have been retrofitted with Sweep Lasers, though altercations to their weapons systems had to be made in order to sustain the Sweep Lasers' high energy requirement. The one stipulation surrounding the Sweep Lasers is the necessity of their being placed immediately adjacent to the battlecruiser's Gravplates. Because of the sheer amount of power needed  for operation, the Sweeps must draw additional energy from the Gravplates themselves, making placement of the weapons alongside the craft impossible  and, where horizontal placement is plausible,  simply impractical.

Science and Technology

Stabilizers

A Furo Stabilizer, most often referred to simply as a 'Stabilizer',  is any natural or man-made object that inhibits the use of Elemental. When a stabilizer is  introduced into an environment, the Furo particle attached to each atom will, as the name of the object implies, stabilize.

Furo Reactor

There are many types of Furo Reactors, though the most commonly found reactors are those powering medium to small sized cities and towns around the world. With a ban on fossil fuels, Furo is the universal form of clean, renewable energy with what is believed to have zero emissions. There are smaller reactors, some even the size of a briefcase which are found in machines such as sets of Raze and Grave Armor, Machbikes, and Forge tanks. Larger, portable reactors are found in larger machines, most notable Battlecruisers. The most powerful of these generators is the Helio reactor, the first of which was constructed in 256 M.I., which octupled the maximum output of portable Furo reactors and made aircraft the size of the Helio Battlecruiser possible.

Furo reactors draw their energy from the radiation emitted by each particle of Furo. Using an Amplifier, the particle becomes more volatile, with the ensuing reactions providing the energy needed to power everything from small vehicles to mammoth battlecruisers.

Furo Extractor

While they both supply enormous amounts of energy, the energy output of a Furo extractor is greater than that of a reactor by nearly 20 to 1. The reason for this extreme difference in energy is due primarily to the fact that, instead of generating energy based upon the radiation of Furo, a process which allows for reusable and renewable energy, the Extractor separates Furo from its atom entirely. This reaction creates a burst of energy so powerful that more than half of its energy must be vented as technology has not advanced to the point where it can safely take advantage of that much energy. The major pitfall of the Extractor is the fact that, by removing the negative mass from its positive counterpart, the atom itself all but disappears from existence.

Towards the core of Havoc in the same caverns used to mine Eternium, Communal scientists have begun work on an extractor that would draw energy from the moon's core. This new reactor is designed to not only efficiently absorb and transfer
all
energy produced during Furo extraction, but will have the capabilities of doing so with the even larger reactions produced by the extraction of such a hot, Furo rich environment as Havoc's core.

Anti-Gravity Plates

Found in all modern air craft using anti-gravity technology, Anti-Gravity plates, referred to as 'Grav-Plates', reverse the polarity of gravity which creates lift. To create lift at all altitudes, the degree to which these Grav-plates reverse gravity's polarity varies. In aeronautical terms, the degree at which polarity is reversed is measured on a scale of zero to ten, with zero translating into no lift at all, ten being perfectly opposite, and five achieving neutrality between the two forces. In the scenario of perfect polarity, the Grav-plates (and the craft that they were attached to) would shoot away from all gravitationally effective objects until their influence were no longer felt.

As is typically practiced, a Grav-Plate in larger craft (particularly Legionnaire Battlecruisers) are rarely set to zero, even in the case of extensive repair or maintenance. The reason being that, most larger plates are connected to larger, more powerful onboard reactors. In the case of the Helio reactor, found in last generation Mystos and all Helio class battlecruisers, because it is in constant contact with ample sources of Furo (all atoms are, after all, attached with a Furo particle) there is no need for them to shut down.

Dimenisors

With only enough power to open an intradimensional pathway large enough for one or two small, tightly grouped people, the Dimenisor is a personal device. And with the source of its creation, Reyzer Phanti, having died in the final years of the Durant Revolution and scientists finding it nearly impossible to reverse engineer, there are only six Dimenisors in existence. 

Originally, the Dimenisors were gifts from Phanti to the Ditrinity, having worked with Durant physicists to design and construct them. With a single charge, the first generation Dimenisor could open an intradimensional pathway anywhere in the world based on geographic coordinates as well altitude with a single, full charge. Using a method of warping known as Internal Displacement, the subject in the warp, if their new coordinates intersected another object, would displace that object or be displaced themselves depending on whichever had the greater inertia.

Originally, the Dimenisor was strictly Durant Technology. However, following the Ditrinity's imprisonment during the Durant Relocation Act, the Dimenisors were confiscated by the Commune. With Rowlings as the project's lead, the Dimenisors were repurposed and retrofitted with state-of-the-art Furo batteries, providing the devices with a nearly infinite charge so long as the distance they warped were miniscule along the curve of space-time. (This definition of miniscule is relative, however, and the Dimenisors are capable of maintaining that sub-infinite charge by maintaining a general rule of 'Line of Sight' warping.)

Warp Network

The Warp Network is a set of intradimensional pathways used for quick dispersal of goods. While, at its inception it was intended for peaceful purposes, it didn't see full use until the tail end of the Durant Revolution, and saw wide use only once at the Battle of Olsgrad Canyon.

Hooked up to the Warp network was the Lightboards, or a series of devices controlled by intersecting-light interfaces or mentally controlled selection goggles. These orders would be queued up, sent to the central hub (in the situation of Olsgrad, located in Brysdal) and the orders distributed through designated Warp Gates.

Warp Gates

Warp Gates are ten-by-ten doorways  that create a unidirectional  intradimensional pathway connecting the Supply Depot (an often glorified term used to describe the stockroom) to the battlefield.

Light Network

The Light Network is the 2nd Generation of the Warp Network that, as of 255 M.I, is still under development by scientists and physicists working with the Enforcer rebellion. Little to nothing is currently known surrounding the Light Network while its existence is as hotly speculated as its function.

The Mindlog

The Mindlog is a large device with several components. First is a large supercomputer linked up to a holographic projection stage. The second device is used to reproduce smell while the third is merely a complex system of speakers used to reproduce sound. The Fourth is a small device referred to as a recorder. In its infancy, recorders required a hardline in order to transmit date to the central server located in the Mindlog's supercomputer. The Recorder is a chip implanted near the brain stem, which records all brain activity into a digital format. This recorder records everything that the brain senses, from taste, smell, sound, sight, and touch. These digital files are then transferred to the supercomputer which then interprets these memories and projects them into three dimensional space via that projection stage.

Limitations
: While the Mindlog creates vivid images and projects them into the real world, the accuracy of these images are subject to the limitations and pitfalls of the mind and memory of the individual whose thoughts are being recorded. If, for instance, the subject was particularly focused on something specific and was completely oblivious to the world around them, only the subject of focus would show up on the Mindlog. Emotion also comes into play when dealing with the accuracy of the activity recorded onto the Mindlog and has the potential to significantly alter the projected images.

If, in the case of some individuals, one of those senses is missing, that sense will be completely absent from the Mindlog, like the case of Luke Semprys, whose mind yielded little valuable intelligence as he was blind.

Eternium

Eternium is the strongest known metal on Havoc. Mined from near Havoc's core where heat and pressure has created the ultra-durable steel, Eternium is also the world's rarest and most expensive material. Because of its scarcity, Eternium is used only in the highest Legionnaire technology and only a handful of individuals outside the Legionnaire, most notably Luke Semprys.

Paxical

Paxical is an advanced form of steel that, due to its glass-like transparency, replaced its glass counterpart in many military vehicles and high-security buildings.

Furo Amplifiers

Furo Amplifiers are most commonly used in both Furo Reactors and extractors to maximize their output and efficiency. Amplifiers work in the opposite direction as a stabilizer by making Furo more pliable and able to be controlled. So the properties of an Amplifier that apply to the Reactors and Extractors also applies to Durants. When a Durant uses Elemental when making contact with an Amplifier, their abilities are amplified as well in accordance with the size and strength of the Amplifier.