Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Ranger Scout Car

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The Ranger Scout Car is the primary scout/light attack vehicle of the Minutemen. This unit is planned to be voiced by

History
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When the Aquilans caught in the early days of the Voshkod-Aquilan War, they brought with them a huge production capacity and the fruits of the Aquilan automotive industry, the most famous of which was the Ranger General Purpose Motor Vehicle, the successor to the old Willys MB Jeeps back in 1940s V.C.. Existing in twenty-eight distinct variants and marks, the Ranger was the backbone of supply, scouting, patrol, mobile warfare, and, well, just about any other role the Guardians could think of.

There was even an anti-tank version of the machine, armed with a recoilless rifle. However, the most common version is the regular GPMV-2, which was designed for combat. The GPMV-2 was a staple of Allied ground forces, used to support advances as well as on their own in massive "Ranger Fleets", often consisting of hundreds of vehicles probing deep into enemy lines.

With robust suspension, four-wheel drive, and a powerful compact V6 engine, the Ranger was quintessentially Aquilan; a cheap, robust, and reliable model. The survivability of these vehicles is legendary; they could be jury-rigged back together with almost anything and would come back from almost any damage with only a few hours in the repair shop. "The Ranger is winning us this war, without a doubt," quipped famed Aquilan General James Marshall II in 1957 V.C. Ironically, he was killed two days later in a crash between his staff car and a Voshkod supply truck, but it is said that he was driven to the hospital in the same vehicle, a testimony to its rugged nature.

After the war, surplus GPMV-2s were sold to various world powers, mainly within Embry to aid the New California Commonwealth and the Alliance of Hawke, which would later modernize the design as the GPMV-5, while others were left in the Boneyard, stacked one on top of each other, such were their numbers. It is estimated a million Rangers were constructed by all the various powers during the Voshkod-Aquilan War, including a limited production run of 2,500 built from captured models by Voshkods to serve as command vehicles, such was their reputation. Millions more have been produced around the world, making it one of the most common vehicles in existence.

The Ranger is the workhouse of the Minutemen military, used in every way imaginable. Due to the untold number of vehicles recovered from the storage facilities, it is estimated that there may, in fact, be more Rangers than Confederate military personnel. The concept of the Ranger Fleet has been resurrected, and many among them consider themselves the successors to (insert character), a famed Minutemen cavalry raider of the First Embry Civil War. One of their uniquely Minutemen-ish uses is as a deployment system for Seismic Scanners, which is a small combination of resonance weaponry and remote cameras. They are built cheaply on the move, out of scrap materials; it's rumored they are built out of spare Ranger parts, so one thing is for certain; they aren't going to run out of them any time soon.