Seeker
SSIA Seeker:
Cost: 2500
Armor: Light
Speed: Very Fast
Weapon: 20mm Machine Gauss Cannon
Range: Medium-Long
Stolen EDF Tech, advanced anti-surface/air recon unit
Stolen Tech units are limited to being built one per player
The SSIA Seeker (long Seeker Mk I) was a prototype recon and fast-assault vehicle. The SSIA during both the Main War and the initial invasion had no dedicated recon vehicles and the Seeker was intended to fill this gap. It never reached production because of the disappearance of components essential to constructing the vehicle- most important of all, its weapon. Original blueprints that survived the time transfers show a small vehicle equipped with a flexible aim 20mm MGC (Machine Gauss Cannon) with infantry ports- the problem was that the MGC prototypes were destroyed during the Main War.
Over two centuries earlier however, the technology was actively being researched in secret by the United States government in the form of the Automatic Gauss Gun (AGG) project. The technology never went anywhere beyond design specifications and a few prototypes. However, when the time came for the EDF to create the default installation data set for the mainframes of its Advanced Technology Centers, the workstation used also happened to be one that was used by a leading scientist of the AGG project.
Unbeknown to EDF officials, in every Advanced Tech Center's mainframe were the complete blueprints and specifications for a functioning automatic gauss cannon of a 20mm caliber.
The Seeker is an odd vehicle when set alongside the standard issue equipment of most SSIA armor divisions. It is sleek, small and incredibly fast. Equipped with an advanced sensor package and a powerful targeting system, the Seeker has no difficulty finding and killing just about anything that gets in its way. All Seekers are also capable of carrying four fully equipped infantrymen, which can expand the capabilities of the vehicle greatly, awhile making a much larger and painful thorn in the side of its enemy.
But it is not the armor-piercing firepower of the 20mm MGC or its potential passengers that make it such a thorn in the side to begin. Its the sheer mobility of the vehicle. There is literally nothing on the ground that can move faster than the Seeker, opening countless windows of opportunity for hit and run attacks and surprise raids.
Battlefield Observations
>Fast- The Seeker is literally the fastest ground vehicle around. Enemies expecting the typical crawling doom that is an SSIA armored vehicle will be surprised as have circles run around them and are annihilated.
>Gauss Gun- The 20mm Machine Gauss Cannon gives the Seeker the ability to engage aircraft or surface targets at a decent range with AP rounds.
>Room for Four- The 20mm MGC may often be insufficient for heavier targets and infantry; the Seeker's firing ports can be used by up to four infantry to fix such shortcomings.
