Adventure Armoured Car

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## Tactical Analysis

* **THE LAW:** An armoured car designed for rapid response to urban unrest, the Adventure is a light transport for a trio of Arbiters trained in crowd pacification and armed response with heavy shotguns. The tank excels against infantry and has a decent top speed.

* **Right to Remain Silent:** To aid in controlling the riots, the Agouti is also armed with a S.P.U.D. gun designed to jam weapons over a wide radius. Though effective at holding the enemy's fire, it only lasts until the enemy corrects the problem.

* **Keepers of the Peace, not Warriors:** Though effective against infantry and light cavalry, the Agouti falters against heavier armor, even against IFV like the Multigunner.

* **Get out of the Tank!:** Heroic Agouti Tankettes are armed with the Cardiac Missile Launcher, better known informally as the Tumor Boomer. Not only does it stop movement as well as attacking for several seconds, it has a chance to pilot-snipe targeted vehicles struck.

## Background

**"Hostile actions detected, retribution warranted!"**

- Agouti pilot, to a group of Macheteros
Like any civilized nation, the United Technate knows it must always be ready for civil unrest. Bordered by Continentals to the north and a number of guerilla organizations supporting previous regimes, the Technate knew their own forces might one day have to fight within their own borders. On this logic, the Technocracy decided to outfit specialized urban police experts as part of the Humanitarian Guard. Trained in a similar manner to the new SWAT units that were appearing across the United States, these experts with charged with other special authority by the Combine. In times of urban duress they would be judge, jury, and if necessary executioner. They would act as the eyes and ears of the Council. They would bring law to the lawless. They would be...Arbitrators.

The Arbitrators are trained to act without emotion in the course of their duties, in recognition of blind Lady Justice who only knew the scales and the sword. Normally brought into action when the level of criminal violence in an area reaches above the capacity of local and regional police to handle or alongside the Humanitarian Guard as urban assault troops, they are sent out in couples or small squads to quarantine the area, patrol around said area to keep order and prevent unrest, and track down and arrest any violators of Technocratic law before taking them to the local precinct to await charges. Criminals and people who have committed particularly egregious crimes like murder or terrorism or those who pose a threat to the safety of nearby civilians or the Arbitrators themselves may be engaged with more force, and many a would-be suicide bomber has found themselves on the wrong end of an Arbitrator's M12 Winchester shotgun, their blaze of glory shot down before it could begin.

After one raid on a revolutionary cell leader failed due to the previously unknown appearance of military grade assault rifles and vehicles in the opposing force, the Arbitrators petitioned for a new vehicle to aid their actions. The Resolution was too slow, but the Adventure was too thinly armored. In the end, the **Agouti Tankette** was chosen as a riot protection vehicle, the design based on a heavily modified M101 Weasel utility tank and fitted for urban combat. As a tankette it is fast and powerful against infantry without access to anti-armor weapons, and its open topped back allows two Arbitrators to ride shotgun with their M12s, providing supporting fire against infantry who try and breach the Technate's lines. In addition, the vehicle is also armed with a Spherical Power Unit Disabler, or SPUD, gun. Utilizing jammer technology similar to those incorporated into Allied Hydrofoils and Continental Jammer Trucks, the SPUD gun launches a projectile that produces the jammer signal in a localized area upon contact with a hard surface, effectively preventing vehicles from firing for a period of time and leaving room for other forces to close in and drag the drivers and passengers out for interrogation and arrest. While at first said vehicles were used solely for riot situations, border control, and search and destroy missions in hostile territory, their capabilities under fire have made them increasingly sighted alongside the soldiers and tanks of the Mobile Guard.

The Arbitrator program, though not without its detractors, has proved its worth to the various military and police counsels in terms of deterring and eliminating threats. The mere threat of their being called has quieted many potentially unlawful demonstrations, though American observers have called the Technocracy as acting "unlawfully, oppressively, and with bad taste" in regards to the Arbitrators. Instead of proud enforcers of the law, many regional and guerilla powers see the Arbitrators as faceless oppressors of nominally free citizens. MIR attempts at sabotage have indeed killed many Arbitrators. Nevertheless, Arbitrators remain a critical part of Technocratic law enforcement, and often act in concert with Allied peacekeepers or Legion Security forces when conducting joint operations in a region.

A recent addition to the arsenal of the Arbitrators is the Cardiac Missile Launcher, designed after a meeting between visionary members of Project Gaia's Bounty and several law enforcement and weapon production councils. Based off Combine experiments to create in vitro meat using cancerous cells with other components, Cardiac Missiles are used as nonlethal weapons for the purposes of shutting down get-away cars and criminal vehicular support by launching samples of cultivated frozen cancerous meat at enemy vehicle where they will (hopefully) expand inside and force those inside... out. While such weapons are still largely untested and not cleared for widespread production by the weapons production councils, those Agoutis with Tumor Boomers mounted have attested to the power of quickly-expanding meat and fat mass in stopping and even sometimes forcing drivers and passengers to abandon their vehicles.