Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Remote Car

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The Remote Car. is planned to be voiced by *TBA* through a radio

History
"I used to be a soldier too, then I took a wing-nut in the knee"

-Former Aquilan soldier

Hobbyists love realism (save for a few small "what if?" communities), and this includes their cars. Normally powered by batteries, the R/C Car scene exploded with affordable fuels, allowing hobbyists to get the smell and power of oil in smaller sizes. The newer "nitro" powered cars used small two-stroke engines and could get surprisingly good power and yardage for their tiny gas tanks. Carefully regulated suppliers and regional support helped the fuelled RC car become a staple of many Embry lives before the bombs fell. Even other Allied nations started to follow the pattern with their own RC nitro vehicles, though planes were more popular in Europe.

But then something unexpected happened. During a refueling and support mission, a Minutemen naval captain by the name of Wilhelmina "Mina" Volk was separated from her crew and found herself on the running end of a raider gang. She took to hiding in an abandoned hobby shop. With various raiders looking for the moderately ranked Volk, she needed a way to distract them. It hit her, and with some supplies around the shop, she took various bolts, six cans of model fuel, two Mardave "Indy 48" cars, a pack of Sparkler fireworks, a set of "Battle of Britain Firebolt vs Yak" decals and set to work.

On the roof, she drove the first car under the gang's Ranger, and the second right next to the fuel tanks of a Retriever APC, and waited for the show to begin. She jumped from the roof to the awning, then to the street. Even as the raiders tried to raise their weapons, the first car exploded. The explosion rocked the patrol and wounded the driver with a wing-nut in the knee. The second car exploded after, engulfing the APC in a massive fireball. This commotion allowed Captain Volk to escape.

When she got back to her ship and got ahold of her superior commander, she told him about her ordeal and her escape methods. To her surprise, he had heard rumors about other Minutemen using similar vehicles as IEDs against Aquilan/Voshkod/raider patrols. They then talked about the idea of militarizing it, with better explosives and faster cars. In a matter of weeks, the sales of Mardave and other RC hobby shops within Guardian nations shot through the roof, and Aquilan and Voshkod patrols would know the fear of the little buzzing of the nitro motor.