Post by RuneCaster_Aris on Apr 21, 2013 17:46:49 GMT -5
This is a standard "Iron Horse APC", known among House Ravenmoor's Domovoi Guard as being not only it's reliability, but what it can also bring to the table in terms of pure support. During an off world conflict, one such vehicle was a linchpin in securing victory for the Domovoi war effort.
On a distant world, the Domovoi Guard clashed with Federal troops over some forgotten wrong doing in a small city in the western hemisphere. The war had been on for days with neither side committing fully to advancing on the other. Snipers fought duals of attrition, and tanks and mecha slugged it out in mechanized bouts long range carnage.
The Domovoi 22nd had made it's way to the center of the city, using buildings as cover and Specter Drones to scout ahead. The squad leader had just engaged in a vicious firefight at a large intersection when his HUD began to display the readouts for an enemy heavy tank and squad approaching from the west. Re-enforcements were hailed, the closest being a mighty Draconian Mk. V assault mech, and though it was making it's way north to support, it had come under heavy fire from a heavy tank and was fighting to fend it off.
All seemed lost for the squad as the enemy units moved closer in to flank them. It was when all seemed lost that a lone Iron Horse APC flew past the squad and over the barricade, lodging itself in the center of the road between buildings providing a virtual wall of neo-titanium and firepower. The APC's driver locked the vehicle down and assisted the gunner in firing again and again upon the advancing squad and tank. Rockets fired of smashing into the hull of the tank forcing it back while it's heavy bore auto-cannon spoke death to federal infantry that dared approach.
Though it's effort valiant, it's guns were silenced and it's crew, knowing that death was upon them, caused the APC to self destruct at the last possible moment hoping to take as many as it could with them. This sacrifice gave enough time for the Draconian to finish what the Iron Horse had started and would lead to a stunning victory for House Ravenmoor.
The pieces of this APC were being reforged and reassembled when a small border conflict on a near by world caused it's premature re-deployment. Once again, It's driver and gunner stopped an enemy advance by using the great bulk of the unit to take massive volumes of fire before being rent asunder. However once more, the sacrifice paid off and reinforcements were able to reach the enemy in time to assure victory.
Once more the fragments were reforged and reassembled but with new purpose. Not unlike the Domovoi, the Ravenmoor believe in awarding those vehicles that have gone above and beyond the line of duty. New sculpture and armor were added as well as advanced tactical systems. But it also received the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a vehicle among the Ravenmoor: a name.
RM-IHAPC-032 "Ironside"
