Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Perrin Armor Devastator

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The Perrin Tank Destroyer. Planned to be voiced by.

History
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The Perrin Tank Destroyer could easily be described as a happy accident by anyone except for its design team. In the early days of the Third World War, the Voshkod military was looking for any kind of upper hand they could possibly get over the Allied forces. The mighty Voshkod army was nearly uncontested in its claim of continental Europe, but those in charge were all too aware that much of the Allied power structure was stationed in Great Britain.

Previous attempts at invading the island nation had all failed miserably, as while the Voshkod had a powerful navy, the (insert) knew how to defend against an amphibious assault - indeed, it was all they had ever had to face. So the Voshkod had a dilemma - charge the guns over the seas, sustaining massive casualties, or begin designing weapons specifically to best the British Isles? Naturally, they decided to do both.

Early design concepts for the Perrin intended for it to be a firing platform for a long-range Vacuum Imploder warhead, they originally wanted a nuke but with the Elsword cutting the alliance, they lost all methods to make nuclear machinery. A stationary Imploder silo took far too much time to set up and was vulnerable while arming, not to mention that it could not be relocated easily. A mobile platform would be able to stay on to move constantly, and furthermore, its ability to relocate would allow one, in theory, to strike anywhere in the world. The concept greatly interested the Voshkod brass.

It was all for naught, of course, as the KDB-16 never made it out of the prototype phase. Originally a quadruped design, the rear legs had to be replaced with a massive wheeled segment to house the engine and support the warhead. As such, when not deployed it could do nothing but drag itself along the ground with its front legs - a serious blow to what was supposed to be an incredibly mobile vehicle.

This, coupled with its weak armor (a Voshkod general was famously quoted as saying that "a single soldier with a rocket launcher and no depth perception would pose a serious threat to it", referencing its size and lack of protection) meant that the advantages did not at all outweigh the disadvantages. The KDB-16 was scrapped and its designers were sent to Siberia for re-education.

Until, that is, the invasion of the Katsuragi. The mighty tank divisions of the Voshkod army found themselves quickly outpaced by the many lighter vehicles, prompting the Voshkod Army to demand the development of more mobile mechanized units with which to crush the cowardly Katsuragi forces. Naturally, many of the new designs were walkers, as the ability to traverse all terrain without difficulty was a massive boon to mobility, and (as the success of the Sickle proved) they could still be armed with as much firepower as a similarly-sized tank division.

With this in mind, the KDB-16 designs were reevaluated - redesign for use at combat level, emphasizing the walker attributes, and perhaps this massive monster can be put to use as almost a sister vehicle to the famous Apocalypse tank. Thus, the KDB-17 Perrin was born - a walker chassis capable of deploying into an incredibly stable firing platform (now immobile, because to hell with that engine), and a weapon that would make its opponents cower in fear; now a large caliber anti-tank gun, firing tesla canister rounds that damaged and short-circuited enemy tanks.

While still lacking in armor and somewhat short on speed, the KDB-17 - dubbed the Perrin - showed its worth in early testing when it not only far outranged nearly all other Voshkod vehicles, but could cripple a Kodiak tank with a single shot, utterly annihilating it with the second.

The Tesla canisters were designed to cause severe damage to all systems in a vehicle, and they outperformed all expectations when it was discovered that an affected vehicle would actually be shut down temporarily after a direct hit. Though the cannon could not be fired unless the Perrin was deployed, it could theoretically take on ANY single vehicle and defeat it one-on-one.

Criticisms that the gun was ineffective against infantry (the canister was not especially accurate and was impact fused) fell on deaf ears when top-ranking generals heard what a Perrin could do against an Apocalypse tank. When the Perrin turned the Battle of Ironforge on its head in its first appearance on the battlefield, the Voshkod knew they had designed something truly special.

Trivia

 * The name was renamed to prevent confusion with the unit from Red Resurrection, which was also appeared in Elysea's Conflict.