Vehicles

The Unified Military Forces, The Unified Executor Forces, The Unified Corporate Forces, and the Terran military all use vehicles. While power armor and mechs are a large part of Terran forces they still use vehicles for a variety of functions. While the Unified Forces may keep the same design for eons or millions of years it appears the Terran military vehicles undergo revisions after any major war or technological breakthrough. Additionally obsolete or 'LARP' designs are still extremely powerful and still used by many star system's military forces.

### Unified Council Systems

Most Unified Council military systems are thousands of years old, in some cases millions of years old. The Lanaktallans will mandate tail amputation to keep a somewhat uniform interior cockpit system. The fact that vehicles may be obsolete is weighed against replacement cost, meaning many vehicles known to be obsolete are still in service since the Lanaktallan military consists of literally hundreds of billions of beings, machines, and weapons.

Lanaktallan military theory of 'wave attacks' is reflected in their vehicles, which are largely called 'glass cannons' or 'turtles' by the Terran military. Lanaktallan vehicles often use a staggered firing line to allow the lead row to fire with the next row moving forward to fire while the second row falls back to reload. The Lanaktallan military considers the vehicle more important than the crews as they follow the "there are millions waiting to take their place" theory as well as practice extensive conscription of unwilling beings.

Lanaktallan also rely on Command & Control vehicles far more than the Terran military does.

Additionally, Lanaktallan military forces have always dealt with species that evolved and progressed technologically with trusted networks and thus are extremely vulnerable to electronic and digital warfare. At the time of this writing they have not developed any countermeasures to the highly aggressive Terran digital warfare doctrine.

#### Types

* Aerospace Interceptors
* Aerospace Superiority Fighters
* Aerospace Bombers
* Hover Vehicles
* Tracked Vehicles

### Terran Confederate Vehicles

The Terran Confederacy has been at war virtually its entire existence. The Terrans in particular have known nothing but war since their primitive and even ancestral species times. Many races within the Confederacy have commented that the Terrans have managed to fit more wars and warfare into their short histories than even the Mantids.

Because of this Terran vehicle systems are constantly under revision. Unless there is a major advancement or a major flaw is revealed new designs are *usually* held until the 'rearming and restructuring' phase. The most recent was the addition of psychic shielding to the warsteel laminate approximately sixty years prior to the Sixth Precursor War, which increased psychic defenses within an armored vehicles and added an additional layer of protection for psychically sensitive crewmembers. That was considered a 'immediate upgrade' status.

This means that Terran vehicle operators are trained in diagnostic and repair methods, unlike their Unified Council counterparts.

Where Lanaktallan vehicles are designed for only two or three days of straight use, Terran vehicles are designed and the crews trained to live and fight in their vehicles for weeks, months, even years. This has caused cases of what has been coined 'Operator Identification Syndrome' in some vehicle crews and is a known risk for extensive military operations.

#### Types

* Aerospace Interceptors
* Aerospace Superiority Fighters
* Aerospace Bombers
* Hover Vehicles
* Graviton Vehicles
* Tracked Vehicles