Land Raider

An externally durable heavy vehicle, the Land Raider serves as a staggeringly durable IFV able to carry its complement of troops through the fiercest of combat and provide a respectable amount of fire support from six heavy weapon mounts. Famous for staggering durability, in ages past nothing short of point blank multi-melta fire or super heavy ordinance was able to reliably breach their armor. Even in the modern age, they remain one of the few vehicles able to withstand multiple shots from the devastating neutron weapons beginning to appears throughout the galaxy. They are however, prohibitively expensive, limiting their use to the most elite and expensive of infantry. Historically they have been the most common form of transport used by terminators or other super heavy infantry. As could be expected of so potent a chaises with so long a service history, their are a wide array of patterns, including some that sacrifice some or all of its troop capacity to enable it to follow other roles.

## Phobos Pattern

By in large considered the "base" pattern. it carries the iconic mounting of a duel heavy weapon mount on each side and two in a turret mount just above the troop bay doors. In addition ti it's weapons it also carries an assault ramp to greatly ease rapid disembarkment, making it an ideal assault vehicle. the Phobos is historically carried lascannons on its side sponsons, and a pair of heavy impales on its turret mount, and many powers still field it in that configuration. However in the Trust, and to an increasing degree the main human powers, the weapons are being replaced with neutron weaponry befitting of its role as a super elite focused IFV. As could be expected this dramatically increases the effectiveness of its fire support.

## Helheim pattern Land Raider Proteus

An improved version of the Proteus land raider. an older design that is not quite as optimized for assaults, it lacks the assault ramp of most other patterns, as well as losing a third of the transport capacity, however it carries a staggeringly advanced suite of asupexes voxcasters and other sensors. The standard Proteus pattern was said to be able to track the entire battlefield, the Hellim pattern Proteus can do far more. In addition to generating a real time image of the entire battle space, it is also able to focus its sensors on specific foes, analyzing them via advanced Cogitators and providing nearby troops with firing solutions and predicted weak points, dramatically enhancing the accuracy and damage against the specified target. Additionally the Helheim pattern has a far more effective engine, allowing it to achieve significantly higher speeds.

## Land Raider Annihilator

Unlike most patterns, the Annihilator does not posses any transport capacity, instead it uses the space to mount a devastating heavy conversion beamer as its primary armament, turning it into a lethal long ranged self propelled gun.It's side sponsons each carry a single conversion beamer, and are meant to engage and destroy foes attempting to close while the main gun blasts open fortifications or super heavy targets. The Annihilator carries banks of cogitators to assist in the calculations and complex targeting its weapons demand, which greatly ease in the targeting of its complex weapons allowing for surprisingly swift and accurate fire, though the vehicle does need to remain stationary to fire.