Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/MCV (Survivors)

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The Mk I "Buffalo" MCV is Minuteman. This is planned to be voiced by

History
"Keep on trukin!"

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GVAW is often remembered as the first war in which the revolutionary Mobile Construction Vehicle partook. The "original" MCV – the Alliance Mk. I "Buffalo" Mobile Construction Vehicle was created by International Inc. The Mobile Construction Vehicle was initially intended to be, of all things, a civilian construction platform. It introduced the ability to rapidly assemble modular, on-site structures using prefabricated parts, as well as a host of other novel features, the details of most of which have been kept classified to this day. The MCVs looked set to transform the construction industry.

However, GVAW had other plans for it. Fermenting tensions all over the globe had led the world’s powers to scramble to lay their hands on any useful technology they could find. International Inc’s hopes of cornering the construction market were dashed when military officials, having seen how fast the deployed MCV could construct a house, realized the potential of the MCV, and took steps to have it land in their hands and stay there. However, an II employee would secretly sell a copy of the blueprints to the Voshkod (who had also realized the potential of the MCV). The employee was just in time, as mere days later, military officials confiscated all the MCVs in II’s possession and banned International Inc from selling the blueprints.

Thus, when the GVAW broke out, both the Voshkod and the Alliance entered the war with their own version of the MCV. For the entire war, both sides would use MCVs, to the point where military doctrine was transformed by it. The war ended, and the Mk I was eventually replaced in Allied service by the Mk II and later on the Mk III.

This wasn’t the end of the civilian MCV, however. Banned from selling the original blueprints, International Inc sought to work around this restriction by removing all the classified systems and substituting them with (admittedly inferior) replacements. Sadly, this new version of the MCV was nowhere near the capabilities of the original, and the idea didn’t catch on. With only the Commonwealth being their sole customer, as they will take anything they could it meant giving them an edge in their war against the Union.

When the bombs finally stopped. The Minutemen had been looking for some way to acquire a construction vehicle of their own. Having already failed on multiple occasions to steal old Alliance MCVs from (heavily guarded) bases, the Minutemen realized they had hit the jackpot when several of their members broke into abandoned Commonwealth storehouses and drove away with several MCVs.

Over the next few weeks, civilian model MCVs were disappearing one after another, and by the time the Alliance realized the implications of this and took steps to stop the theft of MCVs, the Minutemen already had a sizeable fleet of the vehicles.

Upon acquiring them, the ever-resourceful Minutemen made several modifications to allow their MCVs to be viable on the battlefield. Modifying the vehicles to use Construction Dozers allowed them to finally compete with military-grade MCVs, while mechanics found it a simple task to make the MCV invisible on radar. Soon, these old but reliable hulks were taking the fight to the enemies of liberty.