SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: UN Socialist Solar Empire
TYPE: Heavy Assault Mobile Arthropod Tank
MODEL: Cydonia Research Type-76
DATE INTRODUCED: 2176 AD
LENGTH: 200 feet (60.96 meters) not including linear cannon
WIDTH: 240 feet (73.153 meters)
HEIGHT: 200 feet (60.96 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: 8x Hensai Energy HEFR-200 fusion reactor
OUTPUT: 200 megawatts each (1600 Megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 6000 tons
CREW: 20 (2 Pilots, 9 Gunners, 2 Officers, 2 Engineers, 2 Technicians, 2 Electricians, 1 Medical)

PROPULSION
             PRIMARY (FLIGHT/HOVER):
             24x UN-NRE-1030 nuclear rocket engine
             SPEED: 10 mph each (240 mph total)

             PRIMARY (WALKER):
             1x UN-WE-5.4 walker engine
             SPEED: 10 mph

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             (MAIN) 1x Cydonia Research CR-RLC400 REFLECS (Reactive Energy Focused Laser Emission Control System) linear cannon; Effective Range: 3200 miles; Payload: 50 four-hundred pound shells in an autoloading mechanical tray; ROF: up to 60 rounds per minute.

             (RESERVE) 1x Lithgear LGRC-906 six-barrel 90-millimeter rail cannon; Effective Range: 5.3 miles; Payload: 6000-round autoloading belt feed; ROF: fires 18, 30, or 60 round bursts or up to 3600 rounds per minute.

             SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
             2x Lithgear LG-SRCML-106-205 cluster missile launcher; Missile Type: UNCM-SRM-01 short-range 10-pound laser-guided cluster missile with twenty 5-pound mini-missiles; Effective Range: 8.3 miles (mini-missile: 7.7 miles); Payload: 120 missiles, each with 20 mini-missiles for a total of 2400 mini-missiles; ROF: 1 to 6 missiles within two seconds.

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
             2x Lithgear LGRC-504 quad 50-millimeter rail cannon; Effective Range: 1.6 miles; Payload: 4000-round autoloading belt feed; ROF: fires bursts of 20, 40, or 80 rounds in two seconds or up to 4800 rounds per minute.

             SECONDARY (DEFENSIVE):
             1x Cydonia Research CR-LC303 30-megawatt triple laser cannon ball turret; Effective Range: 100 miles; Power Required: 30 megawatts; ROF: 9 triple blasts per minute.

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 40,000-mile range.
              1x RADAR array with a range of 1000 miles.
              6x Multispectral Video/Optical array with a range of 100 miles.
              1x Atmospheric Antigravity maneuver unit; Power: 600 megawatts; Maximum hover height: 200 feet.

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS:
             6x Cydonia Research CR-DFG80 omnidirectional deflector field generator; Range: 80 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 80 megawatts each; Output: 14,400 gigajoules with a regeneration of 1440 gigajoules every ten seconds.

Description/Overview:
             The UN Solar Empire’s Type-76 Heavy Assault Arthropod Tank was the brainchild of Premier Charles Dalltan just prior to 2174.  Dalltan pushed for the creation of a command multiped tank to lead the UNSC invasion forces during “Operation Blitzkrieg”, but the Soviet Elite rejected the design in favor of the Mark-II Project Ironclad fleet of intersection drive-capable spacecraft. This pushed the design and production of the tank that would eventually become the Type-76 into 2175.
             The Type-75 was the first attempt at a scaled-down version of what Dalltan had requested be built.  After the Battle of Venus cost the UNSC four Type-75s, the final decision was made to implement Dalltan's plan of a massive command multiped, but instead of leading the UN invasion fleet, it would be used to defend Mars.  Five of these machines were ordered for the defense of the Soviet capitol city of New-Leningrad.  Four were ready when the EFSM and USR forces invaded the Red Planet; the fifth was only partially complete when the city was taken. This partially completed unit was disassembled and moved to Jupiter’s moon, Io, for study at the ex-UNSC research facilities there.
             After the 1st Interplanetary War ended in 2178/79 AD, the newly formed Mars Colonial governments reintroduced the Type-76 as a city defense unit.  Each of the three Martian powers had twenty walkers.  These machines never left the cities they were assigned to protect (each of the separate Martian capitols).