Alliance Vehicle: Charger-Pattern Combat Hovercycle

ST/HP: 40

Hand/SR: +3/3

HT: 12

Move: 5/100 (+10)

LWt.: 0.56

Load: 0.2

SM: +1

Occ.: 1+2

DR: 90*

Range: 700

Cost: $530,000

Loc.: 2ErR

*The armor is diamondoid; halve its DR vs crushing damage.

Notes

Advanced ARC Personal Vehicle Electronics Vehicle Electronics:

• Medium Ultra-Scanner: 30-mile scan, 3-mile imaging/bioscan; 120° (forward);
  
  
• Targeting Computer: +5 to hit target with a scan-lock.
  
  
• Tactical ESM: +1 to dodge missiles.
  
  
• Navigation: Inertial Compass (+3 to Navigation); fixed homing navigation system (+5 to navigate to a specific signal).
  
  
• Medium Holographic Radio: 1,000 mile range (orbital); “palm sized” holographic console.
  
  
• 2 Rechargeable F-Cells
  
  
• Security & Safety: Complex Biometric Locks (-4); Complex Security Alarm (-4); Crashweb (+10 DR for occupant in a crash)

The Charger-Pattern Hover-Cycle has room for a single driver and a single passenger sitting behind the driver. It also has room for a single robot, which can integrate with the computerized controls via a cablejack. It also has a “trunk” with space for up to 50 lbs of gear.

The main armament are twin-linked underslung, stablized semi-portable blasters. They can adjust theirs position slightly based on input from the targeting computer, making it potentially a very accurate weapon.

Weapon	Dmg	Acc	Range	Ewt	RoF	Shots	ST	Bulk	Rcl	Cost
Blaster Cannon	6d×3 (5) burn	9	200/600	70	3	90/Ep	20M	-10	2	$85k

Look and Feel

The Charger-Pattern hover-cycle is truly a beautiful thing to behold. While the factory pattern has standards that it applies to every one, the pattern has plenty of room for customization, and each can be designed to exactly fit the expected rider, making each a truly bespoke design (this often translates into a level of Equipment Bond (Charger)). Its chassis exceeds the size of the average hoverbike by quite a margin, but its sleek design, often with spoilers and fins.This too can be customized, and most sport the heraldry of the rider’s house and their preferred colors. The diamondoid shell gives it a sheen, and whatever color it holds, close inspection reveals a certain glittering quality to the body.

When parked, it extends three skids on which it balances. The rider straddles the vehicle in a head-forward position typical of many hover-cycles. Unlike the spare bodies of most hoverbikes, the Charger has an excess of armor designed to offer the rider a modicum of cover (treat this as a -2 to hit the exposed rider). Behind the driver, a small niche can house a small, SM-1 robot, usually the riders personal tech-bot: while the position has a cablejack allowing the robot to control the vehicle, the real intention of the design is to allow the pilot to bring his robot with him; even so, the robots will often handle sensor scans and will bring the vehicle back to the user if the user signals them. The hoverbike has a set of small compartments to either side of the bike and beneath the seat that, together, can carry up to 50 lbs of gear and equipment. The Charger accelerates about as fast as a modern sports car, and reaches top speeds equivalent to top-of-the-line sports cars; it uses its ultrascanner and computerized controls to assist the driver and warn him of oncoming obstacles.

The Charger-Pattern hovercycle is not actually intended as a military vehicle, but an aggressive, armed personal transport worthy of a space knight. The Alliance does not issue these to soldiers, nor does it arrange for platoons of them to scout out enemy positions. Instead, space knights will commission their creation for themselves personally, and use it to reach remote locations (hence the room for a robot and supplies) or to explore a newly acquired planet, or to rapidly respond to a crisis or, more often, to show off how much wealth they have.