SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Varna Stellar Nations (Various)
TYPE: Multi-Environment Mass Production Battlesuit
MODEL: Type-211099 Hai-Richon Zho'Dak
DATE INTRODUCED: 2.11099 GS (290,069 BC)
LENGTH (Depth): 8.5 feet (2.6 meters)
WIDTH: 14.4 feet (4.4 meters)
HEIGHT: 21.7 feet (6.6 meters)
MATERIAL: Dense Material (Prodono 8th-Level Carbonium-Molecular Alloy)
POWER PLANT: Obuch-Ron OR-200 fusion reactor
OUTPUT: 200 megawatts
ARMOR TYPE: Prodono Meta-Organic Energy Resistant Armor: Laser, PHELAC, ion blaster, disruptor, EMPAC, and PAC damage is greatly reduced.
ARMOR THICKNESS: 1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 15 tons
CREW: 1 Pilot

PROPULSION

             PRIMARY (WALKER):
             1x Moi-Kai MK-25 walker engine
             SPEED: 25 mph

             PRIMARY (INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT):
             1x Vrlek-Uph-Kai VUK-2.1 Electromagnetic Drive
             SPEED: 1,520,000 mph

             SECONDARY (FLIGHT):
             2x Gruel-Khan GK-3.75 Fusion Thrusters
             SPEED: 190,000 mph each (380,000 mph total)

WEAPONS:
             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
          1x X'Rella Zom Type-XZ-210988 (Introduced in 290,180 BC ER); Effective Range: 50 miles; Power Required: 50 megawatts; Power Supply: 5000 megawatt nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: 100; ROF: 1 blast every 10 seconds for a cyclic rate of 6 blasts per minute.

             SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
              2x Xil Orah Type-210993 Rapid Fire MASER cannons introduced in 290,175 BC Earth Relative); Effective Range: 150 miles; Power Required: 30 megawatts; Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: 15 blasts per ten seconds with a cyclic rate of 90 blasts per minute.

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
              2x Gur’Zull Xergin-Tah (Rapid Fire Blaster Gun) Type-GZXT-21106 (introduced in 288,940 BC ER); Effective Range: 20 miles, Power Required: 20 megawatts, Power Supply: nuclear battery with clutch; Payload: unlimited; ROF: 3 blasts per 20 seconds or 9 blasts per minute.

ELECTRONICS:
              1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 6000-mile range.
              1x LADAR array with a range of 500 miles.
              1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 40,000-mile range.
              1x Passive EMS array with a range of 50,000 miles.
              1x Active EMS array with a range of 1000 miles.
              1x Multispectral Video/Optical array with a range of 1000 miles.
              1x Neural Link System (allows machine-man interface and greatly enhances the performance of the craft)
              1x Fibro Carbon Muscles which allow the limbs of the vehicle to move.
              1x Gravitational Control Unit (Antigravity) which acts as a g-compensator.

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
             2x Zh'Ohm Type-210098 Level-3 omnidirectional Plasma-Type deflector field generators; Range: 20 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 20 megawatts; Output: 9360 gigajoules of power with a regeneration rate of 1170 megajoules every eight seconds.


Description/Overview:
          The success of the various Prodono Hai-Richon type Battlesuits was not lost on the over seventy Varna stellar nations scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy and Magellanic Clouds. Additionally, with the total collapse of the Varna Empire around 350,000 BC (Earth Relative), the aging mecha of the armies of these stellar nations were increasingly difficult to maintain. As nearly all of the Varna states had slipped from the technological heights of the Empire, many of their ancient walkers, hover tanks, and other mechanized weapons were no longer repairable. Therefore, the Varna, ever practical, chose to outfit their armies with a machine that could be repaired, and maintained using the parts from the new dominant power in the galaxy, the Prodono. Thus, the Varna Hai Richon Type-211099 Zho'Dak was born.
          The Zho'Dak types encountered on the fourth moon of the sixth planet of the Ross 47 star system are believed to be the standard type, though that was not known as of 2194. What was known is that the battlesuit used a basic Prodono Hai Richon Nycho type frame, fitted with Varna weapons and systems. The most unique of these systems, known to Terran researchers of the late 22nd Century, was a pair of deflector field generators (one located on each forearm). These generators gave the Varna type Hai Richon an advantage that no other Hai Richon had (as far as Terran scientists of the 2190s knew). The missile systems of the Prodono type Hai Richon were not present. Instead, a pair of MASER beam weapons mounted on fibro-carbon muscle tentacles were added. These Xil Orah Type-210993 MASER weapons were rapid fire, had a considerable range, and were used for both anti-missile, and anti-mecha purposes. The main anti-armor weapon of the Zho'Dak was an Electron-Element beam rifle gunpod that fired a devastating beam which was capable of destroying most types of mecha in its class with one hit. It wa also useful against small craft such as gravity tanks, shuttles, or even corvettes.
          The Zho'Dak specimens encountered on the fourth moon of the sixth planet of the Ross 47 star system were of little use in terms of the technologies built into these mecha. All of the suits enountered were destroyed. However, data from the Gora Duragal did fill in much of the information about these suits that was not known.