Pneumatic Tower

The Pneumatic Tower is a large unmanned resource excavator used to shatter rock to look for natural resources. It is found in the Western Frontier in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora They are a common outpost site to be destroyed in the game.
==Specifications/Overview==
Pneumatic Towers are large ground vehicles that is supported on two large tank tracks for maneuverability with an additional two smaller tacks at the front of the vehicle. They are very similar to their sister vehicles, the Pneumatic Prospector, as they are both nothing more than a giant tower which is used to shatter the earth to search for resources with their giant pneumatic jackhammers. The key difference is that the Towers are much simpler in design than the more complex and expensive Prospectors.
The vehicle has two decks, compared to the Prospector's four, with a front and back 'entrance' deck used as elevation to climb up to the main deck. Once a resource deposit is found, four stabilizer legs would unfurl at the base of the vehicle's superstructure and be put in place for the process extraction. After which, the vehicle will activate its giant jackhammer which will pound the earth every ten seconds, causing miniature earthquakes, flinging a cloud of sediment and leaving the ground a glowing blue.
Whilst the Tower has a lot of similarities with the Prospector, there is a key difference, specifically their vulnerabilities. A Prospector's safety system relies on two lower-pressure valves.Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Guide Shutting both of them off will make the machine vulnerable if the safety control system at the highest deck is compromised. On the other hand, the safety systems of a Tower relies on a cooling unit and a generator. The cooling unit is vulnerable to hacking or sabotage and once this unit is destroyed, the Tower's generator would vent excess heat to avoid a meltdown. This makes the generator vulnerable to being destroyed causing a cascading failure event.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*It shares the same structural profile as the Pneumatic Prospector, the Gas Collector and the Seismic Scanner, being both large, mobile towers.
*Given that it is pneumatic and it causes a loud, noticeable miniature earthquake every several seconds, it is highly likely that this vehicle is a giant, mobile jackhammer used to shatter and soften up the earth for other vehicles to safely excavate and extract.
**Likewise, the blue glow on the ground after the hammer strikes strongly indicates that the jackhammer uses plasma as its cutting power.
*The Tower, whilst superficially similar to the Prospector, does have some key physical differences. The design of the Tower is far more simpler, with only two decks and a much more vulnerable weakspot. A Prospector is noticeably larger despite being the same height, and more complex.
==References==
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