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[Kashyyk]

Speaking of Tanks or something cooler... Last time this got proposed, it was marked at Very Hard. I've since edited it to be powered by a Diesel Engine rather than being restricted by power cables, so it may be teetering up a level. We do have some experience with mechanisms now though, that'll help with the complexity of the legs.

Standing at 7.5m tall, the Armoured Urban Weapons Platform is a bipedal vehicle, with a crew of three (Commander, Gunner, Pilot). It cuts an imposing figure with a bulbous torso/cockpit above two jointed legs. Flanking the cockpit are two separately aimable weapons (with electric motors giving pitch and yaw), on the left an interlocked pair of 20mm autocannons for soft targets, and a 120mm QF cannon on the right for hard targets. All three cannons are augmented with auto-loaders to reduce the need for tricky reloading mid-combat. Finally, a Combine machine gun is embedded in the nose.

This whole assembly rests on two digitigrade legs that allow the Platform a degree of freedom to crouch behind obstacles, stretch up over or lean around, them, and move the whole platform at a blistering 30 km/h. The legs themselves are driven with electric-hydraulic pistons.

The whole thing is built with structural Levisteel to reduce weight, and Armoured with case-hardened plates of the same, giving Heavy protection to the front torso, Medium protection to the rest of the front and the torso, and Light everywhere else. The whole thing is powered by a compact nuclear Fission reactor. If we had one. For now a large space is left in the schematics, and is instead filled with a high powered diesel engine and a large, compartmentalised and double skinned fuel tank on the back of the platform, giving the appearance of a trooper hauling his pack.

Naturally, this paradigm shifting weapon is a cutting edge prototype, and should recieve an Advantage credit.

[Man of Paper]

Because the Mark 1 is still in essence just a slightly upgunned tank, I'd say it's still Very Hard.

[Kashyyk]

Well, we need better spy stuff, and better war stuff. So let's do a vote.

(1) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk
(1) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk

[Quarque]

Thinking along the same lines.

The training camp isn't bad, but I'm biased towards guard dogs because they were cool in Red Alert.

(1) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk
(1) Lassie : Quarque
(2) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque

[Funk]

Mecha time.

(1) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk
(2) Lassie : Quarque, Funk
(3) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk

[Kashyyk]

I do like the idea of Lassie, but I'd want a bit more in there. Perhaps a suite of advanced skills that can be pick'n'mixed when training. Things like contraband sniffing, movie-grade tracking and sentry duty, things to bump it to Easy/Normal.

[m1895]

Seems a bit premature to do a votebox, but eh, it exists now

(2) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk, m1895
(2) Lassie : Quarque, Funk
(4) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk, m1895

[ConscriptFive]

Never skip leg day!

(2) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk, m1895
(3) Lassie : Quarque, Funk, ConscriptFive
(5) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk, m1895, ConscriptFive

[m1895]

UNSA Model 194X "Peacemaker" Smokeless Rocket Launcher
At the end of the day, infantry need a way to deal with armored vehicles, whether it be tanks, APCs, or something more exotic.
The Peacemaker is a levisteel tube that fires off 100mm "rockets" (the warhead sits outside the tube) propelled by a gravite rod and kept on a flat trajectory by a gravite plate powered by a separate battery; the "rocket" has a marking on top as well as a ridge that slides into a groove inside the tube to ensure it doesn't get put in upside down. The flat trajectory means it can be accurately fired against stationary targets out to 900m with its simple optic. Now, with its mediocre speed non-stationary targets make things a bit trickier, but as long as the target's very slow or unmaneuverable it shouldn't dampen range much at all. Now we have good reason to select the gravite rod for propulsion, no backblast to limit where you can fire it, no trail to give away your position, and no noise. The primary warhead type is a shaped charge able to penetrate 250mm RHA equivalent flat on. The secondary meanwhile is solid HE in the same shell with a light frag belt made for infantry, bunkers, and vehicles too unarmored to be worth using HEAT on. The troops need to carry the ammo somehow, so it comes with a carrying backpack lined with thin sheets of specially shaped levisteel to reduce gravity's pull on it, allowing the AT trooper and assistant to lug these with relative ease. Thus, the Peacemaker can easily be integrated directly into squads as well as used in dedicated tank hunter units.

[Man of Paper]

Peacemaker holds firm on the upper end of Hard. It’s your first foray into caelium-based weapons systems, but you do already have a little bit of experience with infantry weapons as well as explosives (see: firefly), which keeps this from tipping over the line.

[m1895]

Chez-30 Machinepistol, Levisteel Frame
The Chez-30 is a discrete looking black select-fire pistol chambered in 7×28mm Valkria, a surprisingly powerful round common in North Harren. When set to automatic it fires at 600 rpm and comes with 20 and 30 round magazines. The frame is built of levisteel, giving it the dual effect of balancing out recoil with its mass while still being lightweight.
Primarily intended for issue to guards and plainclothes officers, it will make its way into military service sooner rather than later as the UNSA Model 194X "Camembert" Machinepistol.

[Quarque]

(2) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk, m1895
(2) Lassie : Funk, ConscriptFive
(5) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk, m1895, ConscriptFive
(1) Peacemaker : Quarque

[m1895]

Department of Restoration
The current state of the Harren Islands is, to put it lightly, not great. The Department of Restoration was created to manage rebuilding our half of the ruined isles.
The department firstly funds the rebuilding of housing while ensuring standards are met (particularly related to air raid cellars.) along with this is the restoration of public works to a modern standard. Lastly they provide local businesses with generous loans (no interest) to help stimulate economic recovery.

(1) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk
(2) Lassie : Funk, ConscriptFive
(5) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk, m1895, ConscriptFive
(2) Peacemaker : Quarque, m1895
 -Expense credit:
- Yes: (1) m1895
- No:

[Man of Paper]

Chez-30 But Levisteel is Normal, as it is just a gun but made with levisteel with nothing actually reliant on some newfangled science.

Department of Restoration is Hard, thanks to you having experience moving money around reducing the impact of scope and scale.

[Powder Miner]

rocket launcher yes

I was pretty skeptical of the mech for a while but then I realized it's the fucking Harrenverse what's wrong with me

(1) Survival Training Station : Kashyyk
(2) Lassie : Funk, ConscriptFive
(6) Mark 1 AUWP <+Advantage, +Expense> : Kashyyk, Quarque, Funk, m1895, ConscriptFive, Powder Miner
(3) Peacemaker : Quarque, m1895, Powder Miner
 -Expense credit:
- Yes: (2) m1895, Powder Miner
- No: