Transporters

**ARCDA** Has a number of different vehicles and transporters, for various different purposes. Usually these will have the colours corresponding to which faction they are owned by.

## Land Transporters

### Small Land Transporters

* ***Ulex***

A utilities vehicle that carries small equipment and tools. These are usually unarmoured and don't have any weapons or protective capabilities as they are for on-site work only.

* ***Styrax***

A small armoured car used in a similar way to a police car, built to chase and ram. These are usually found in flatter or more urbanised areas than other transporters as they can get around more easily however they struggle with rough terrain.

* ***Iberis***

A small van-like transporter which can only take a maximum of eight passengers, but has off-road and difficult terrain capabilities. These are more heavily armed and can have weaponry mounted to the roof but this is usually only reserved for combat zones.

### Large Land Transporters

* ***Aurochs***

A heavy equipment transporter. The equivalent to a hauler truck. There are maximum 5 seats in an Aurochs as the rest of the vehicle is for goods and equipment.

* ***Taurus***

Sometimes described as a land train, the Taurus is a large infantry transporter, with flexible segmented sections. They are reinforced with cages over the windows and are able to lower shutters for added protection. As shown in Broken Arrow, they can take a lot of damage and still keep running.

* **Protoryx**

A large armoured vehicle used for combat situations. These vehicles usually support large weapon armourments such as hydro-canons, net launchers, bolas, harpoons, and forklift prongs. Protoryx armed with nets usually have large cages in the back and are used for critter capture and occasionally offence capture with Hunter units.

## Air Transporters

Air based Transporters for ARCDA

* **Kestrel**

The Kestrel is a small hovering aircraft, similar to a helicopter however having VTOL power, with rotor propellors. It is a high speed but short range vehicle, with only a 900km range and can carry two crew and a maximum of ten passengers, and 4000kg of cargo.

* **Osprey**

The Osprey is a modified version of the old V-22 Osprey designed by Boeing, with VTOL power through dual tilt rotor engines that can be rotated between vertical and horizonal positioning so that it can take off like a helicopter but fly like a standard aeroplane. Like its smaller model the Kestrel, the propellers are shrouded. It has a larger capacity and range of the Kestrel, and carry weight with being able to carry up to thirty passengers along ith 8000kg of internal cargo, and at least 1 light transporter such as a Styrax or Ulex. Its range is also slightly superior with a 1500km range.

## See Also

* ARCDA
* The Elites
* ARCDA Bunkers

## Trivia

* Small transporters are named after plants (Gorse, Snowbell, Candytuft), large transporters are named after bovids and caprids, air based transporters are named after birds. This is a similar way to how some aircraft are named such as Boeing's Poseidon, Hercules, or Chinook and Apache, or Harrier, Hawk, and also an Osprey.
* The Kestrel is based on the Bell X-22 (that never made it out of testing due to lack of intrest in the project), and the Osprey the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey.
* Broken Arrow features several transporters, and the Taurus team is named after their transporter.

## References

 Storm Series
 Synths
 Other