Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-25356210-20160316023355/@comment-26258526-20160319202745

Armor of the Colonial Imperium:

Shortly after the human colonists came out of FTL after leaving Terra headed for one the outling colonies they realized they had miscalculated their jump and where way off course and lost. Landing on the nearest planet that was nicely similar to Terra they began colonizing, but soon where attacked by various alien factions. Using a fabricator (a device all colonial expeditions where given that is similar to a 3D printer but big enough to make anything from cars, tanks, or plows) and local metal the colonist tried to make a Terran tank, but it didn't work with the local resources. Soon a call was sent out for armored vehicles that could be made out of local materials and in a fabricator until factories where available.

The first design to come in was a medium tank designed by Jordan Russ that was big enough to take on alien vehicles but small enough for a fabricator. Armed with one turret las cannon, a hull mounted gun that could be changed when needed, and sometimes two side guns the Russ has been mas produced since.



Soon the Russ chassis became the building blocks for every other Imperium medium vehicle including a APC model named the Chimeria, a model with a 120mm gun mounted on it for artillery support, and a siege gun model.