Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Sudden Transport

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The Sudden Transport is the APC exclusively used by Erune Command, one of the Katsuragi Protectorate's subfactions that replaces the Self-Defense Force standard Type 73 Armored Personnel Carrier. Planned to be voiced by.

History
"Right under their noses!"

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It may appear different for the foreign watcher, but the Katsuragi society is not at all one without internal conflicts and struggles. While it seems everyone works for the same goal, there have been numerous conflicts. Some families continue their ancestral disputes, even up to today. Other conflicts have arisen between rival firms on the market, and even between different branches of the same company. One such conflict arose between Mifune Motors, the producer of the Auto Go and the producer of the Sudden Transport, Aichi Hoverworks.

What began as a brawl at a nice evening dinner accompanied by women and sake, ended in one of the dirtiest and tragic firm battles of the last decade. The leader of Aichi Hoverworks asked Mifune Motors for a friendly dinner. It was accepted, and went well - at first. But some time after, one of the two started to say insulting things about the other, who was clearly offended by it and started a fight. The result was two broken noses and some wounds, as well as forbidden entry to both to the restaurant.

However, the fight was not over. One woman who was present took a liking to her guest, and also had connections to the Yakuza of Nagasaki. Three days later, the headquarters of Aichi Hoverworks was attacked by the Yakuza in a bloody shootout, with 17 people slain. During the raid, Aichi Hoverworks was coincidentally testing their newest invention, the "Shinobu Holoprojection System".

Under the cover of night when most of the Aichi Hoverworks employees had already returned home, the Yakuza attacked the headquarters, silencing the 17 security guards with blades and handguns. Alerted to this situation while the Shinobu system was still being tested, the remaining employees all piled up inside their "Shinobu" system equipped van. Nano-scanning one of the Yakuza vans from inside the hangar, they disguised themselves as the jet black vans the Yakuza drove, they were able to flee from the Yakuza, driving past the Yakuza members. Not a single person batted an eyelid at the fact that one of the Yakuza vans was leaving.

After the burial of the victims, Aichi Hoverworks swore revenge on the Yakuza who used the old tradition of a death letter after the attack. They used their own connections to special police forces, and analysing the nature of the attack - the poisoned dagger, the revenge haiku written on the most delicate rice paper - used their new "Shinobu system" to track down and destroy the Yakuza headquaters in (insert Ulthuan-Katsuragi city here).

After the "Shinobu System" was publicily revealed, the news reached the Protectorate rather quickly. For the upcoming war, the Protectorate required a way to sneak through enemy lines to deliver ambush troops before their Self-Defense Forces charge in and the like, such as Tankbusters. Integrating the "Shinobu System" into the Model 24 Transport, it was given the formal designation Model 24, Armoured Transport, Sudden Transport. During the last war, "Shinobu System" equipped Sudden Transports were also known to disguise themselves as friendly units.

There was one encounter between a particularly notorious 20-strong Assault Sub wolfpack and 16 Asagiri destroyers, 12 Naginata cruisers, 30 Sudden Transports, a Hyuga Helicarrier, a Shogun Battleship and its escorts on the way to reinforce the SDF and Asur footholds in Dagda. The Brotherhood wolfpack upon detecting the scout elements of the approaching Imperial fleet, set out to engage them. What the Akula wolfpack saw was not pleasing to the eye: 10 Asagiri destroyers, 10 Yumi submarines, 8 Naginata Cruisers, a Shogun Battleship and its escorts.

The leader of the wolfpack evaluated the situation, and what happened at the start of the Protectorates invasion. The 20 Akula submarines under his command made up one of the most deadly wolfpacks in the Red Navy, but the Protectorate Naginata Cruisers outnumbered them by more than 2 to 1.

How could 20 Brotherhood submarines ever hope to fare off against a large fleet? The Akula wolfpack had no choice but to pull back and report the encounter to Officer's Academy, or risk their detection and destruction at the hands of the Protectorate Navy. The Voshkod knew no better, since half of their fleet were Sudden Transports. Throughout the war, Sudden Transports have also disguised themselves as various SDF and Asur vehicles, Nanocores and even MCVs.