SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Prodono Alliance (possibly the ancient Prodono Stellar Republic)
TYPE: Main Battle Grav-Tank
MODEL: Xerg Nai Cho Type-170022
DATE INTRODUCED: 1.70022 GS (331,158 BC Earth Relative)
LENGTH: 48.6 feet (14.8 meters)
WIDTH: 33.1 feet (10.1 meters)
HEIGHT: 14.4 feet (4.4 meters)
MATERIAL: Dense
POWER PLANT: 4x Obuch-Ron OR-161699 Nuclear Battery
OUTPUT: 95 Megawatts each (380 MW total)
ARMOR TYPE: Dense
ARMOR THICKNESS: 2 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 100 tons
CREW: 4 (1 Driver, 1 Commander, 2 Gunners)

PROPULSION:
             1x Gruel-Khan GK-06 Ion Engine (Low Yield)
             SPEED: 250 mph

WEAPONS:
                PRIMARY: 
             1x Turret-mounted Xergin Tah Chosh Type-171026 triple-barrel 30-megawatt Ion-Blaster turret (three 10-megawatt cannons); Effective Range: 100 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery; ROF: 1 triple-Ion-blasts per 7.5-seconds or 8 triple-blasts per minute.

                SECONDARY: 
             2x Uh'Dak Throm Type-168999 omni-directional Rapid-Fire Meson-beam emitter turret (9-megawatt); Effective Range: 72 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery; ROF: 10 Meson-beam-bolts per second or 60 beam-bolts per minute.


ELECTRONICS: 
              1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 4000-mile range.
              1x Laser Communications array with a 11,000-mile range.
              1x LADAR sensor suite with a 5000-mile range.
              1x Active EMS sensor suite with a 10,000-mile range.
              1x Passive EMS sensor suite with a 10,000-mile range.
              4x Prodono style Tesla-Schauberger atmospheric gravity control unit (used for lift, and maneuvering, not gravity generation or escaping a gravity well).

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
             4x K'Tellar Ubrich KTU-Type-170001 Level-2 omnidirectional Plasma-Type deflector field generators; Range: 20 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 20 megawatts; Output: 8640 gigajoules of power with a regeneration rate of 864 megajoules every ten seconds.

Description/Overview:
         Very little is known about the Type-170022 Xerg Nai Cho other than it is an ancient pre-Prodono Galactic Republic (not to be confused with the much older Prodono Stellar Republic) Main Battle Tank that was built sometime during the Prodono Alliance (Galaxy-spanning political body that succeeded the Prodono Stellar Republic). The Xerg Nai Cho was a general combat tank armed with a massive triple-Ion-Blaster beam weapon system for use against other grav-tanks, AGARs and battlesuits. The secondary weapons were a pair of mushroom-shaped rapid-fire Meson beam emitters that were used mostly against power-armored and heavy armored troopers and light armored vehicles.
        The Xerg Nai Cho tanks encountered by the Earth-borne powers in the late 2180s were operated by Prodono android forces and were very old. Most had been in hibernation state with their four nuclear-fusion batteries in a state of stasis (meaning nuclear material was separated and not active allowing for near infinite storage). The Prodono used an atomically unstable isotope of their own creation dubbed barrillium 455 by the Principality of Altair scientists who discovered the android fleet at Altair 6. This isotope was stored at absolute zero (in space) to slow down its degradation (half-life of about 1.5 million years, and a usable lifespan of approximately 550,000 years). The isotope, when combined with liquid Deuterium or Tritium within an electromagnetic super-criticality chamber, allows for megawatt output levels in a small nuclear-fusion battery (approximately 31 cubic inches/508 cubic centimeters to generate 95-megawatts). The biggest drawback of the nuclear-fusion battery is its active lifespan is only 95-days before it requires refueling.
        The tank "floats" on a bed of gravitons generated by four anti-gravity generators located in each corner of the bottom of the tank. While these gravity units provide lift, they do not provide propulsion. One ion-engine fitted to the back of the tank does. However, the gravity generators do provide breaking action and banking/steering.
        The Xerg Nai Cho has a main defense consisting of four K'Tellar Ubrich Plasma-type deflector field generators. These level-2 generators provide considerable protection for the tank, however, if the plasma-fields are blown down, the tank does have 1-inch of energy resistant armor plating to help it survive on the battlefield.