Fafnir

The Fafnir is an Ultra-sized tank piloted by the Spacers. Along with its up-gunned artillery variant - the Brünhilde - the two represent the largest combat vehicles to ever make landfall on Novo Solo. It was made into a pilotable vehicle in the Blood Anniversary Update of June 7th, 2021.
== Acquisitions Entry ==
The Fafnir is the single largest combat vehicle to make landfall on Novo Solo, so far as I know. It’s an uncharacteristic extravagance for Spacers, in terms of sheer tonnage. Everything that comes down from space has to go back up. Or does it? There’s good evidence these things are never intended to go back into space once deployed. Talk about Spacer arrogance—never go back on an invasion. At least, never packing up their incredibly destructive rolling command centers/fortresses. When Spacers pulled out of the Siege of Andros, they left a pack of Fafnirs with all the guns auto-targeting anything that moved. Once they finally shelled the beasts into submission, they cracked open the hulls and found hypertrophied internals of a regular tank, reserve shield generator units, oversized grav couches, and a human head wired into the center of the thing. Cephaloids creep me out.-MB
== Notes & Strategy ==
* Ultra class: +25% damage resist and improved Trample
* The pilotable version of the Fafnir has a pair of Banshees as auto-firing guns.
* Despite being a classified as a tank, the Fafnir handles like a grav-tank, and shares control settings with agravs as well.
== Trivia ==
* In the Brigador universe, a Cephaloid is a disembodied cybernetic Spacer "pilot" dedicated to the operation of massive vehicles normally requiring a large crew. Unrestricted by bodily functions, a Cephaloid can work indefinitely, requiring less maintenance and nutrition than a full-bodied man while operating complex systems more effectively than a pilot with a cranial jack alone. 
* Cephaloids are not the only example of dramatic physical "resculpting"; Cyclolucidites have "subtracted" functions from themselves, removing sensory organs ( as Oscar Allard did) and the biological requirement for sleep, invoking a dream-like state and achieving "savant-like feats of calculation, of hyper concentration" for the purpose of faster-than-light travel.
* The turret of the Actias can be seen on the top of the Spacer Fafnir. The Brigador version instead utilizes the hull of a Oxybeles mech as a turret.
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