Demonstration configuration.
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Lazarus TCC-503-B
B-Type Winter Frame "B'Kuttu" (Wolf)
History and Background: Designed as a technology demonstrator, the B'Kuttu was to show those unfamiliar with Lazarus on the power-armor front what Lazarus were capable of, as a pure expression of Lazarus' motives and personal ideals.
It was later decided that a military and a limited public version would also be made available. This particular unit is to strictly demo the military and high-cost high-performance capabilities of the unit which may be attractive to military entities or anyone who desires adaptable power to get them out of a pinch.
Although the weapons and more expensive systems on the live demonstration units are not publicly available under most circumstances, for a high enough price, they can be.
About the TCC-503-B:
The B'Kuttu was tailored from the TCC-3 as an ultra-maneuverable variable weapons platform taking the best of current fighter and power-armor technology and molding them to fit the technological standard displayed by alien technology in tribute of classic dogfighting methodology.
With an extreme thrust/weight ratio, low maintenance costs and impressive adaptability, the B'Kuttu could be configured for a vast range of different tasks or environments with relative ease and low cost.
The B'Kuttu features a revolutionary new handling system which allows it to handle well in open areas (dogfighting) or in low spectrum areas (race tracks, urban roads, freeways) without modification which makes it suitable for not only military but also urban roles.
It should be noted that though the unit is designated as a power-armor, it's acceleration and velocity arc is closer to that of a modern star-fighter and performs equally well in both atmospheres and space.
Statistical Information:
Government: Lorath
Organization: General public consumption
Type: Multi-role ultra-maneuverable fighter
Class: Technology Demonstrator; TCC-503-B 'B-Kuttu'
Designer:
Loran Lazarus, 5th Degree physics scholar and founder of Lazarus
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Manufacturer: Lazarus Precision technologies Corp.
Production:
Prototype 1 (Black) (503-B-X1) UNARMED
Prototype 2 (Grey) (503-B-X2)ARMED
Live demonstrators (two, one red white and gold trim, the other blue, purple and black trim) (503-B-XL) ARMED
Public product (503-B-A1) UNARMED
Crew: 1
Maximum Capacity: 2
Appearance:
Extremely human and smooth in form reminiscent of a Lorath female.
Covered with defining metalloid polished plates and seams overlapping one another in a fashion which closely mimics the human form though with exception.
The shoulders are set further outwards from the body than they would be for a human though capable of contracting to match the body. When joints are flexed to their limit, reflective black smooth muscle like surfaces beneath may be revealed.
Set into the armor at specific points in multiples of 3 in triangle formation are tiny balls which can retract and disappear. Some are as small as ballbearings and in the shoulders, the size of softballs.
The feet of the B'Kuttu are normally hidden from view and retract into the leg to become a nozzle like jet which is able to open and close on a jaw like hinge set at the calves.
Upon the center of the spine, a pair of modules protude akin to a shoulder and upper arm, each with a rail set into it. A large fore-arm is able to slide across the rail. Like the legs, this too appears close to a jet nozzle, making the 5th and 6th limbs.
The final limbs are a thin pair of humanly proportioned mechanical arms mounted into the chest which coil over the shoulders when not in use.
When transformed, the front of the torso opens and rises level with the back and extends forwards to form the fuselage. Hands and arms lock into place and slide beneath to provide the primary weapons. The hips unlock and rise forwards slightly and lock beneath without crushing the pilot within but the knee joints of the unit are covered as the legs contract and cover the joint. The rail arms upon the back flatten out over the back of the unit and act as the main engines alongside the feet.
Length: 1 meter normally, 9 meters transformed
Width: 3 meters normally, 1.5 meters transformed
Height: (variable) 2 to 4 meters normally (hip joints, legs extending or contracting), 1 meter transformed.
Mass: 50lb without additional weapons
Speeds:
Sublight: 0.7c cruising (limited from 0.81c)
Aux/Emergancy: 0.1c max
FTL: Dependent upon assist module
Engine: Four internally fitted Maverick Phoenix MK XII
Planetary:
Atmosphere
Cruising: Mach 7
Burst: Mach 25+ (not supported by manufacturer, 3 second bursts, 3 bursts a minute safely)
Stall: 141 Km/h (without grav assist)
Landing: 4G combat landings, VTOL
Take-Off: Catapult, burst, ricochet launch, VTOL
Ocean: 110 knots (cruising) 670 knots (burst) 400 meters (maximum operating depth)
Range:
Space: Until fuel is exhausted (approximately 6 months of travel without combat or extra fuel modules)
Atmospheric: approximately 6 weeks of travel without combat or extra fuel modules
Combat: Until the safety limits are exceeded or reactor output drops below 25%
Lifespan: 16 months without basic maintenance, 20 years without upgrade or replacement of key systems
Mounted systems:
Mount C: (fore-arms)
Description: This area serves as a secure mount for the MAXIM. The MAXIM mounted here is only able to fire at high velocities and lacks the charging capacity of the burst shot.
Mount D: (Hands)
Description: A hand is mounted which contains three fingers and two thumbs with the second in place of the smallest finger. This specialized hand serves as a mount for the MARA-S tactical cannon and gives the unit superior manipulation of objects in hand. The hollow arm also contains additional ammunition for the Maxim cannon which can be belt-fed to the unit when ammunition is depleted. If empty, this area can serve as a small cargo-bay.
Mount D2 (micro-manipulation arm mount)
Description: Mounted here is a pair of armor plates which close over the chest of the unit during normal operation.
Mount E:
Description: Mounted here are a pair of engine units (see systems) and MAXIM cannons.
Weapons systems:
MARA-S tactical canon (x10): Part of Lazarus' ideal were that the primary weapon of any power-armor should be as useful as it's hands for both destruction and manipulation of it's environment. The Mara-S fits the bill perfectly and strictly speaking is the coupling of a precision mass-driver and the prototype MARA neutron cannon.
The weapon is able to act as an effective penetrating weapon against even larger targets depending on the particular charge set of the neutrons in use. The round will also knock a target from it's immediate vector up to 10 degrees, per round.
The Mara wave cannon operates by firing an intense burst of high or low energy free neutrons (depending on the estimated penetration depth of the target) which have been bound about a pocket of positively charged gravitons.
When the round impacts the target body, it creates dislocations in the materials of the target body in the ionization process which makes the materials more brittle or causes swelling and structural damage. The graviton cluster then impacts the surface through this process and the ionized dislocations are physically ripped from their stationary locations and the effect intensified.
Location: Incorporated into the fingertips of the unit. An extra graviton projector is also fitted to each palm.
Primary Purpose: Anti Power-Armor
Secondary Purpose: Melee combat & cutting tasks
Tertiary Purpose: Disruption
Damage: Heavy-Very heavy under sustained fire
Range: 15km pri/sec, 150km tertiary
Rate of Fire: 1 per 0.6 seconds, chain linked from each hand to fire in series
Payload: Effectively unlimited provided the graviton collector and power source are online
Alternative mode: MARA-S tactical canon (x10): Unfortunately, the use of neutrons also means when the weapon is charged into the optimal destructive ranges, radiation is emitted against the target into the surrounding environment making it an extremely poor choice for urban environments since the effectiveness drops dramatically with the charge potential.
As such, the graviton projectors can be used as mass driver to launch or attract objects in the surrounding environment safely.
The graviton continues to travel through the target body and in the event enough pockets are fired simultaneously, the target body is "thrown" off it's immediate vector. This system can be used without the neutrons as a tactical weapon and via careful computer control, gravitons can be fired in controlled gradients of gravitons at different charges to pull or push objects. If the mass is greater than that of the parent unit, it instead is pulled to the target object if the pull-rate is substantial enough.
Location: Incorporated into the fingertips of the unit. An extra graviton projector is also fitted to each palm.
Primary Purpose: Manipulation & Melee
Secondary Purpose: Disruption
Damage: Tactical (dependent on situation)
Range: 150km for a weak "knock", within 30km for full pulling or throwing effects
Rate of Fire: Constant effect.
Payload: Effectively unlimited provided the graviton collector and power source are online
Maxim cannon (x2) The Maxim strictly speaking is a rail-gun and a concept weapon. It works by firing sharpened hollow tubes approximately the size of a pencil at high speed through a chain of accumulatively charged magnetic fields. The round can be heated or frozen and the central mass can be filled with an explosive gas and the ends heated closed into sharp points in the form of a dumb-fire missile. The round is extremely accurate and the longer the coils are charged between shots, the faster the speed of the mass at launch. Frozen rounds can be shattered on launch into sharp pieces in the form of a high velocity shrapnel gun or chaff. Co-incidently, the cut shape into the hollow form of the tube means it rotates and remains accurate should it remain hollow.
Location: Incorporated into the secondary rail arms
Primary Purpose: Armor piercing/sniping
Secondary Purpose: Suppression (kinetic/physical weapon)
Damage: Low to devistating
Range: Effectively unlimited until round burns up or meets an object (600km atmospheric at maximum velocity)
Rate of Fire: 3 (@ 2000 m/s, confirmed escape velocity @1G) to 4,200 (@ 200 m/s) per minute
Payload: 10,000 overall, designed for burst fire. Rounds stored in thin magnetically lubricated drums through the hollow section of the arm.
Systems:
Movable Frame:
Serving as the internal skeleton, pilot enclosure and skin mount, the mobile-frame is composed of the following:
It should be duly noted that the majority of the unit's form consists of a movable frame technology, essentially a series of bars and spherical joints. Each bar is able to extend on average 10 to 50 times it's original length or contract accordingly meaning the overall form of the machine is able to change depending on the situation.
The bars or tubes themselves are constructed of steel/chrome crystals which are convergent and aligned on the nanoscopic level, similarly to diamond making them extremely durable and it is infact the crystals which expand and contract.
These tubes also act as a heat-sink and conduct and dissipate energy extremely well, even in a vacuum. Because of unique gravimetric properties of the gravimetric matrix within the spherical components, the movable frame also exerts useful gravimetric properties and is able to suspend itself within the air under 5G.
The globes act as compressed joints which the bars can rotate upon as a free axis. Each contains a gravity control component (making the entire frame a weak two layer gravimetric control matrix) and a small sensor node making the entire body a two layer sensor array.
Under simulation, the system was so efficient, the external frame was able to dissipate fire from a military grade scalar pulse cannon for up to 140 seconds before damage was incurred though this has not yet been physically tested beyond simulations and skepticism remains.
The MIF consists of several components:
• Protective hive
• Internal skeleton
• Internal mesh
• External mesh
Protective hive
The protective hive is made up of points and bars in a honey comb structure to create a protective enclosure about the pilot and is essentially the cockpit. One size fits all with the movable frame. Within each honey comb, a liquid screen and protective cushioning are suspended in the form of a gel which can contract and shift with the motions of the movable frame to massage the pilot or continue motion without the pilot. It is isolated from the rest of the body and can be ejected in an emergency.
Internal Skeleton
Extremely similar to a human skeleton in form, the internal skeleton carries the same role. Unlike the parts around it, the skeleton consists of a skeletal form not composed of the movable frame technology and instead a solid state frame. This frame has a far higher range of motion than any human and as such, no joint can be held into a lock which would damage it making many suppression techniques useless since the pilot's limbs are not within those of the frame save for the legs.
A protective rib-cage covers the internal hive and a spine behind it.
Key components such as generators and such are mounted into bays and enclosures within the internal skeleton.
Internal mesh
A movable frame which holds the primary components of the frame to the skeleton, similarly to a skin. The internal mesh is able to extend many times it's original size to match the motions of the components beneath. The internal mesh also acts as a gravimetric matrix in conjunction with other parts.
External mesh
The external mesh acts as a frame about the internal components and holds armor and external components to the body which are not mounted the internal skeleton directly. The external mesh is able to expand and contract far more than the internal parts and NAC 441 armor variant coats and falls between the bars which make up the triangular mesh. This means the air-frame during the transformation can be changed on the fly to suit the specific maneuver.
Remaining mounts
Crotch mounting point (x1) It should be noted that the B'Kuttu does not include any externally mounted offensive weapons or guns though the consideration for such devices has been included in the form of a pair of rifle-mounting points situated upon the crotch for use during transformation and upon the left thigh for standard operation, similar to a holster. The mounting point also includes a direct line to the reactor on each and both mounting plugs can be ejected and sealed in the event of a malfunction.
Wing hard-points (x6) Upon each wing, there is one weapon rail set hard into the center of the variable mass and a rail upon the furthest edge. The first weapon rail can support weaponry both from above and below the wing simultaneously and the wing-tip mounted rails hold one rail mount each. The mid-wing mounts are designed especially for long smooth forms which cling to the primary body of the wing whereas the outer mount is designed for a weapons pod. Though missiles can be mounted, a pod is recommended to protect explosive payloads and make the form more aerodynamic and stable during high speed flight.
