Lawmaster

Part of the Riven's strategic tendency towards rapid response, when offered the chance to adopt the Martian Ajax into their armouries, they jumped at the opportunity. Turning the lightly armoured and speed-focused basic chassis into a vehicle fully enclosed in armour with formidable weapons and sensors mounted in the rear. Though supposed to be a reconnaissance vehicle you wouldn't know it initially thanks to the design choice of The Riven Techmarines, who, at first glance, seen to have turned the nimble chassis into a armoured turtle instead. Despite this the Lawmaster has come to fit perfectly within the XVth Legion helping to provide intel and a lasting impression on those who have come face to face with it's hooks and flamers.

## **Design**

The boxy up-armoured frame of the Lawmaster provides excellent protection for it's crew as well as other marines working alongside it on foot. With the Riven's own specific ideals of retribution the added ornamentation hooks have proven to be vital in it's defence against those enemies of man with weaker resolves then their own. Touting a fear-inducing pair of flamers and chaff launchers it can easily zip into battle to support elements just as easily as it can sneak to an enemy's unprotected flank, reporting any weaknesses that can be exploited. To this end it has become a stable of outrider formations within the XVth Legion.

### **Armament**

The main armament of the Lawmaker is it's only armament, partially due to it's size. Taking up the entire rear section of the vehicle is a large turret with two weapon mounts on either side. The machinery to facilitate it's control is rather bulky and so adds to the overall reduction in internal space compared to it's open-air Martian originator. The standard armament chosen by the Riven is a pair of flamers, and thanks to the full 360° arc of fire it can easily protect any side of the vehicle. The ammunition is also held in a reinforced internal compartment to guarantee the marine's safety should it explode. This extra step towards safety is one of a number of features specifically chosen to by the Riven Techmarine representative, along with more unorthodox methods. The turret is controlled by the second crew member of the vehicle, specifically assigned as the gunner instead of the command element or navigator as was initially designed. The only real problem with the turret itself is that while other weapons can be mounted, the internal ammunition storage needs to be converted to facilitate the change and this refit can take a significant amount of time in comparison.

### **Defence**

The large armoured frame mounted over the original chassis seems slightly counterproductive in terms of the reduced speed for such heavy plating, but in the eyes of the Riven commanders it was a negligible trade-off. The armour is made up of a layer of ceramite, with a layer of armaplas in underneath. This heavier armour provides significant protection from small arms fire and even provides blast protection from mines with plating mounted on the underside. Able to shrug off small arms fire and mitigate anti-vehicle weapons to some degree thanks to the armaplas, the Lawmaster has a great degree of survivability, especially considering the urban environments the legion normally operates in.

Inset into the roof of the Lawmaster are a small batch of tubes set into 2 rows of 6, each made up of simple launcher mechanisms can fire out smoke or chaff decoys with the push of a button from the crew compartment. It should be noted that the munitions used in this system are slightly larger than those normally used on other legionary vehicles such as the rhino or predator. The extra space within has allowed for new designs entirely. The smoke grenade has a set of sub-munitions around it's circumference that launch out for greater coverage, while the chaff grenade is fitted with a small repulsor unit to keep it in the air and guide munitions far away from it's parent vehicle.

### **Miscellaneous**

To fulfil the vehicles basic design role, a large visual augur array is mounted in between the weapon mounts of the turret. Able to switch it's powerful vision between multiple spectrum and modes to detect a number of different emanations an enemy could make. This feeds directly to the gunners position where it can also be elevated on a telescopic mounting, allowing it to peer over cover and terrain to reconnoitre the area around it. This surveillance tool is used to great effect along with the still remaining speed of the vehicle to capture as much information as possible about locales and enemy formations to be passed on.

The final element of the Lawmaker technically counts as a method of armouring the vehicle but in a very unorthodox sense. Hooks are placed at semi-regular intervals around the sides and rear of the vehicle, normally, these hooks allow for plenty of things to be mounted to them like wargear or cargo netting, but their true purpose is far mroe sinister.

As The Riven marines capture enemy combatants and bind them in full-body restraints, they are hung placed the outside of the vehicle on the many hooks mounted around on it's sides or rear. Once several have been mounted they provide a layer of both physical and psychological protection around the vehicle, as enemies second-guess firing at the vehicle for fear of injuring or killing their comrades in the process.