Juggernaught

…Only seven Juggernaughts out of the original 13 remained. Platoon leader 12-Alpha-1 was contemplating the situation at hand. They could very well glass this entire planet from space but some situations demanded that you act with more subtlety then force. If sending down several hundreds neo-soldiers encased in several hundred tons of killing machine could be called subtlety. In this case the Golden Hemogeny required these handful of brave soldiers to wade thru a hell of fire, bullets and beams of various powers to capture the dimensional gateway nexus. They could destroy it from space but this would mean that the dimensional gate way would remain open and the horrible lizards would continue to flood thru. With the nexus under their control they could shut down the flood and continue to their assault on the “Zaibatsu”. High command knew that this little ploy was just a distraction so the “Zaibatsu” could lick their wounds. None the less the results were quiet evident in the dimension that the lizards had managed to swarm thru. It was no mistake that the “Zaibatsu” had equipped these backwards-reptilian degenerates with heavy weapons and ships. It was also no mistake when they influenced them to attack a Golden Hemogeny cloning dimension. The “Zaibatsu” would pay but at this moment 12-Alpha-1 had a fight to finish.

The Juggernaughts colloquially known as “Hell Divers” had just finished manufacturing ammunition to top up their stores. The small maintenance bots had also finished a hasty field repair to all systems. They quietly gathered some more raw materials and hovered back into the body of the “Hell Divers”. With a hush the rear shutter doors closed behind the multi use maintenance bots and the “Hell Divers” were ready to go. The formed into a flying V formation with 12-Alpha-6 taking the lead. The blasted landscape they were surrounded by was the only remain of a once vibrant planet. They were approaching the fortress were the nexus was located, the population was down 95% in the last week of fighting but that remaining 5% was close to 2 billion blood thirsty lizards. It was this kind of heavy open fighting that the “Hell Divers” were designed for. The heavy weapons and numbers of the lizards could take down an army of clone, super, mega soldiers in battle cloaks and even neo-soldiers in heavy tanks. This is were the “Hell Divers” came in. Able to withstand extremely heavy fire as well as dish it out the “Hell Divers” could break any defence or army and allow conventional troops the toe hold they needed to wage an effective war. Even with the heaviness of the suits 12-Alpha-1 had still lost 6 brave soldiers. They would have to play it smart if they wanted to survive.

The lizards were rushing at the flying V formation at a quick pace of 65 km/h. At the distance they were at and the speed they were going at they would catch the tip of the V in a matter of minutes. Having learned from the beating they had taken earlier in the week the lizards were concentrating there fire on one Juggernaught at a time. All Alhpa platoon could do for now was spew their fire over their assigned sector and wait for the signal from platton leader 12-Alpha-1. The plethora of mass drivers possessed by the “Hell Divers” were going into over drive and sending their hail of fire upon the lizards. The unarmoured lizards when struck by a mass driver round were turned into mist. Normally a mass driver was set at .001c enough kinetic energy to take down a mecha, unfortunately for the lizards their lack of armour meant that each round was going thru them like a bullet passing thru a fine mist. Each round would go thru dozens, hundreds, even thousands of lizrds before losing structural integrity or kinetic energy. This didn’t mean that the “Hell Divers” were not getting shot at however. Millions of rail guns, plasma rifles and rocket launchers were being fired at each “Hell Diver”. The storm of fire was impeding movement but the fire was burning up on the psychic shielding each “Hell Diver” was projecting around itself. They just had to get enough of the slimy bastards into the box before they would really let them have it…

12-Alpha-6 was taking the worst of the storm; over half the lizards in range were pelting 12-Alpha-6 with heavy fire. He could probably take another dozen seconds before his suit would start to evaporate under the fire of the lizards. Even now the fluid coccon he was encased in was not doing an adequate job of stopping the violent deceleration of each round as they started to hit the suit. His monitors were all starting to flash red as the fire was continuing; he had already started firing off anti-personnel assault launchers as the lizards were getting into melee range now. 12-Alpha-1 was seeing the panic in 12-Alpha-6 actions as he was starting to twist and turn to bring his guns to bear on groups of lizards swarming him. Just a few more seconds and they would have them…

“NOW!” Screamed 12-Alpha-1. All the “Hell Divers” lowered their 2 variable high-energy cannon and opened fire. The beams were set on a high spread, low energy blast pattern. This was a good setting for swarms and in the current situation almost all the lizards would be vaporized. In a matter of seconds a wall of energy stretching across the whole horizon was crashing forward and vaporizing lizards. The wall continued for a good 20 km before the curvature of the planet prevented the line of sight weapon from getting any more lizards. After the wall had dissipated only a few pockets of lizards were left. The V continued forward and each pocket was picked apart by con fire till none remained.

That 5 minute engagement had expended 50% of weapon stores and the “Hell Divers” would soon have to stop and go into manufacturing mode. Already 12-Alpha-1 could see “Hell Divers” standing still as multi-function bots hovered out of there hiding place and began repairs. All was clear for now, 12-Alpha-1 knew this was going to be a long war might as well get some rest while he could…

Specs:

Classification: Neo-soldier use mega assault ground unit

Height: 6 meters

Shielding: Psychic reinforcing shielding, Golden Hemogeny shield unit Alpha

Armour: Golden Hemogeny armour plating 30 cm thick base armour, Golden Hemogeny electric reactive armour plating outer layer, multiple layers

Powerplant: Golden Hemogeny power storage battery level Alpha, Anti-matter reactor

Top speed: 35 km/h running, 150 km/h flying

Misc system: Automated repair/ maintenance bots, Internal factory c/w matter transmutter furnace, Anti-gravity lift system, long-range sensor pod

Weapons: 1 x main mass driver assault rifle, 8 x slots for medium collapsible weapons, 2 x slots for large collapsible weapons, 6 x “panzer faust” style weapon, 2 x side firing rpg launchers, 2 x grenade racks (various types of grenades from smoke to micro-nuclear), 2 x “cracker” weapons, 6 x knuckle mass drivers, 24 x psychic guided homing beam launchers, 3 x anti-pursuit turrets, 2 x mine dispensers (top most rear skirt doors), 2 x caltrop dispensers (middle rear skirt doors), 4 x missile hatches, 3 x spine mortars, 2 x small missile array, 8 x top mounted variable speed mass drivers, 6 x chest mounted variable speed mass drivers, 1 x gatling cannon, 2 x grenade launchers, 2 x dual barrel variable intensity beam cannons, 2 x anti-mecha mass driver turrets, 1 x bazooka, 1 x medium missile array, 1 x turreted grenade launcher, 1 x gun cluster ( 1 x gatling cannon, 2 x beam cannon), many x assault launchers (multiple reload claymore mine like plating on bottom sides of mecha), 1 x psychic blast (on face plate)

Even with the Grand universe taking a crippling blow there were still many enemies after the Golden Hemogeny. These new enemies were even more aggressive and devastating ground combat would ensue. The already enhanced Golden Hemogeny ground forces were not enough to stand up to the brutal new enemy. With this High Lord Gold Conqueror went back to his meditation chambers to plan new mechas that would allow his forces to come out victorious.

After several weeks the Juggernaught class of mega mecha were ready for their combat debut. Twice the height of a conventional heavy Golden Hemogeny tank these mecha towered over the battlefield. At the highest point of this mecha was an long range sensor pod which could also be extended on a boon to further gain viewing distances. Another important design factor for this mecha was an anti-matter reactor and an molecular transmutter furnace. The reactor would insure an extensively long combat range and endurance and the furnace would allow the Juggernaught to affect its own repairs or ammunition replenishment. The only down side was that this process of repair or replenishment was both material and energy intensive. Once this process was started the mecha had to stay stationatry while all the energy went to the repair systems or roving bots who extracted material. Approximately 5 kg of raw material was required to make 1 kg of desired parts or ammunition. Even with these drawbacks this sytem allowed for Juggenaughts to have a combat endurance unmatched by any comparable Golden Hemogeny ground mecha.

The weapons mounted on the Juggernaught were almost the entire inventory of Golden Hemogeny ordnances. A hail of weapon fire greeted every conceivable approach to the Juggenaught. Able to literally become its own one man army each Juggernaught had the equivalent combat strength of an entire combat division. Every kind of weapon was available on a Juggernaught and Juggernaughts could fire direct, indirect, missile bombarments, energy bombardment and fight melee. A Juggernaught in battle was a ferocious site to behold.

If there was a weak point it would be the organic pilots required to pilot this mecha. Even cloned from the best stock and infused with high amounts of psychic energies these Neo-soldiers were susceptible to combat fatigue and exhaustion. Forced to go into stasis in between battles the morale of the “Hell Diver” corps was low compared to other comparable elite forces. However with production in full swing and several hundred thousands “Hell Divers” in reserve Gold Conqueror could afford to use even these unit as cannon fodder.