Jurassic Hover Tank

"Let us park over there."

- Jurassic tank crew.

## Tactical Information

* **No finer tank**: No other main battle tank can challenge the Jurassic in a stand-up fight. It not only possesses an admirable blend of firepower, armor, speed, and soft factors, but due to the Ukrazol's better understanding of many of the relevant sciences, it is simply built to a higher quality. And due to it's cavorite based anti-gravity systems, the Jurassic is quite capable of going over the water without any appreciable loss in speed to engage sea-based targets or enact amphibious landings.

* **FREEM**: By delaying it's firing to accumulate more energy into it's capacitors for it's hard-light cannon, the Jurassic can fire a single massive beam that deals tremendous single target damage.

* **Extinct**: The price of power is a quite steep one, and the Jurassic most certainly cannot be built as affordably or as quickly as most of it's competitors. And the primary weakness of the Jurassic other than it's cost is a low rate of fire as it takes time to charge up the hard-light cannon, as a result of this, it is inefficient against Infantry at the best of times. Aircraft can rain down fire upon it with impunity.

* **Pewpew**: Experienced users of a Jurassic Hover-tank can be given charge accelerator packs that let them fire much more quickly and even use the charge shot faster than before. Due to many reasons (some of which make no sense to humans) these are only distributed to those deemed worthy by the merit determining computers on the fleet.

## Unit History

The Jurassic Hover Tank is an ancient tank design that was used literally millions of years past when the Ecumene was still young. It was retired a long, long time ago after serving honorably in wars that predate mankind's very existence. In time, the Jurassic would be retired and it's construction plans would be stowed away for aeons as the Ecumene reached increasing heights of power. Now the inhabitant of Museums or produced to feature in period pieces, documentaries and war movies, the Jurassic spent it's millions of years of retirement in relative comfort and glory. All was good for quite some time as newer designs came and left the vehicle behind.

Then came the long war, the eternal struggles the Ecumene wages on battlefields across the universe and the endless desire to expand and absorb new conquests, new wealth, new ideas and new societies. The sheer breadth to which the Ecumene expanded meant that often the territory it absorbed could not be readily provided the top of the line as its empire spread across whole galaxies. There was also the need to ensure that the regular military had the lion's share of the best equipment, and in the tasks of observing and then conquering primitive worlds and lower grade societies the best of the best was hardly needed. So the mothballs were dusted off, given some modernisations and modifications to fit into how doctrine has changed since then, and then distributed among category Xeklax to category Morkag observational and primitive conquest fleets.

Once again, the Jurassic hover tank would see war on foreign worlds, though no longer was it considered cutting edge or utilized against peer opponents. Now the power of it's hard-light cannon would be directed against substantially more primitive opponents to see what sorts of unique technologies and tactics they would utilize against tanks so that the Ecumene could parasite off of the technical advances and tactics of other civilizations. It would again cover itself in glory as the Ecumene started causing chaos and disruptions to many developing civilizations all for the sake of ensuring that their vast, bloated parasite of a nation would continue to get fatter and fatter off the bones of worthier nations and peoples.

In time, what would become the Jovian fleet would come across Earth, and upon determining the overall tech-base of the Earth through observation, the Conquest councils decided that the Jurassic tank would be the vehicle best suited for the job on Earth. With it's maneuverability, ability to maintain individual superiority without being overly crushing to Earth technology, and easily manufactured parts, the Jurassic would soon see deployment on the Earth in the small skirmishes that would mark the observational phase of their deployment, and the somewhat more brazen, but still hidden engagements of the escalation phase of operations.

The Jurassic gets its name because it was quite literally, invented during the Jurassic period, with the Ukrazol Ecumene being a staggeringly ancient society that is in and of itself, but a mayfly next to the terrible ancient majesty of the Scrin that form one of the only things that the Ukrazol fear. Certainly though, despite the unfathomable ancientness of the Ukrazol's design, it has yet to disappoint in battles on the Earth or in suppression actions against the indigenous Ssekhmarakh of Jupiter's moon of Europa or the Mibarako of Saturn's Moon of Titan.