Project OBERON

==Goal==
Arising from the ashes of Project: SPRIGGAN, Project: OBERON is a semi-autonomous drone built to break sieges, establish beachheads, provide long ranged artillery support and form nearly impenetrable anti-air defense matrices.
== History ==
Designed by Miranda Yan, Project: OBERON was continuously pushed back further and further due to issues within ARHK leadership. When the first prototype was finally field tested, the results were stellar and Project: OBERON was immediately pushed onto the production line.
However, being a streamlined and more efficient version of it’s predecessor, PROJECT: SPRIGGAN, OBERON fell into the same pitfalls of resource intensive parts as well as a long construction time even with the aid of FAIRYs. Each lost OBERON is a blow to ARHK's military presence that is hard to recover. Thus OBERONs are only deployed in the most dire of situations.
==Overview==
Standing for Omni-terrain Battle Encampment with Reactive Overwatch Network, Project: OBERON is ARHK’s newly created and approved main battle drone designed to dominate land-based warfare. At 11.5 meters long, 5 meters wide and 4.5 meters high, the OBERON is an impressive sight upon the battlefield. With four separate continuous tracks, the OBERON can achieve maximum speeds of up to 95 kph on flat surfaces. 
Heavily armoured, the OBERON can endure most conventional anti-tank fire and even survive for a handful of minutes when against suit-based anti-armor weapons. The key to this is it’s Hard Light armor. Typically only providing defense from light to medium strength weapons while draining little power from the OBERON’s central power system, the Hard Light armor plates can be temporarily overloaded with power to project an energy based defensive matrix in a certain direction to drastically lessen any incoming fire. This reroutes the power to a single hard Light plate, leaving the rest of the OBERON vulnerable to anti-tank fire.
However such an act can not be continued for long as the risk of completely destroying the Hard Light armor plates that have been overloaded increases exponentially. Instead, such acts are limited to only short bursts right before the moment of impact, reducing the strain on the armor. 
Each OBERON possess a single central mounted 360 degree turret armed with an Ordnance Multi-Driver and Aegis Cluster Rocket Array. At each of the four corners sit a set of twin Auto-cannons to deter enemy infantry from getting too close to the OBERON.
The Ordnance Multi-Driver actually consists of two separate weapons, a Pulse Submunition Cannon and a Helical-spiral Electromagnetic Railgun. 
The Pulse Submunitions Cannon functions by firing clusters of sophisticated micro-submunitions that detonate in close proximity to their target in a storm of separate plasma pulse-discharges, showering a wide area with deadly effect. Larger targets such as bulky infantry, suits and vehicles inevitably suffer proportionally greater harm from the Pulse Submunitions Cannon as they can be struck with a wave of near-simultaneous detonations, magnifying the blast and ripping them apart. While able to operate at extreme range up to 20 kilometres away, the effectiveness of the Pulse Submunitions Cannon deteriorates as the range increases as the cluster of micro-subminitions barely falls short of mach 1 speed.
The Helical-spiral Electromagnetic Railgun operates in a fashion similar to a cross between more conventional railguns and coilguns. As the electrical current passes through the rails, the projectile manages to transform the silver of high-density, inert metal slug into a precision weapon able to pierce almost all conventional armors. With a range of up to 150 kilometers and speeds of mach 6, the Helical-spiral Electromagnetic Railgun is a terrifyingly effective weapon. The only downside of the weapon is the need for a direct line of sight to the target for it to be effective, thus it is only effective on flat plains or as part of the OBERON’s anti-air defense matrix.
The last weapon on the turret of the OBERON is the Aegis Cluster Rocket Array. Utilizing micro warheads which operate in a similar fashion to the micro-submunitions used by the Pulse Submunitions Cannon, the Aegis Cluster Rocket Array excels at blanketing the sky, or ground in some cases, with multiple plasma explosions. This provides an incredible defense against incoming warheads or at flushing out any infantry that may be hiding behind extensive cover. However, due to the nature of the weapon itself, the maximum range of the Aegis Cluster Array is only up to 750 meters. 
 
While a single OBERON is a force to be reckoned with, the truly terrifying thing about the OBERON is how its onboard AI sensor suite can link up with other OBERONs, sharing information and tracking data. This creates an almost impenetrable defensive line as each OBERON is able to cooperate with others, shoring up weaknesses and enhancing strengths.
Like the TITANIA, OBERONs can be directly transported by ARHK transport ships with up to 6 OBERONs being carried by a single aircraft.
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