HHT-90 Overlord

Specifications
Use	Heavy Hovertank
Production Code	HHT-90
Manufacturer	Kadelie Weapon Systems
Height	8.6 meters

after the defeat of the 8th CEF Fleet during the War of the Alliance, the New Earth Commonwealth performed an extensive reevaluation of their military capabilities. While the Terra Novan’s landship fleets proved to be a minor strategic element in the war, the CEF noted that without the element of surprise, the Terra Novans would be capable of utilizing the mobility and fire power of their Landship fleets. In order to combat this problem, the NEC ordered a mobile weapons platform capable of immobilizing Terra Novan Landship fleets.

Two corporations competed for the contract: Kadelie Weapon Systems and Moscow Heavy Industries. Moscow Heavy Industries had experienced a surge of contracts with their successes in the Frame markets, and as the primary manufacturers of the HT-72 and HT-68, MHI appeared to be the likely candidate to produce the heavy weapon’s platform.

Kadelie had struggled to produce new enhancements for the CEF. Their HC-3A was a successful refit of their older command car, but their entries into the frame market were lacklustre. They did have one massive advantage over Moscow Heavy Industries though, and that was expertise in weapons manufacturing.

On October of 6133, Kadelie demonstrated a frontline prototype to the NECAF on their Mars facility. Moscow Heavy Industries had struggled to find a weapons system powerful enough to penetrate the level of armor required by NECAF and had been forced to redesign their experimental vehicle. Kadelie had successfully micronized one of their system ship weapons into an enlarged hovertank structure. the macro acceleration cannon’s demonstration to NECAF attendees proved to the armed forces the exact weapon system needed to fulfill the anti-Landship role.

the oversized hull allowed additional weapon systems as well as significant troop contingency to protect the newly dubbed Overlord. with the success of the demonstration, Kadelie was given the contract to manufacture the vehicle.

Usage

The HHT-90’s that were originally commissioned by NECAF were produced in components at Kadelie’s Martian facility, but the hulls were constructed at Kadelie’s proving facilities on Utopia. New Minerva, Maxwell, and Isaac GRELs were vat-grown at elite Genome’s facility for use in the HHT-90. A few of the HHT’s were constructed with incorporated FLAIL systems to field-test, but the proven reliability of GRELs meant that the majority of the HHT-90’s deployed have the Minerva, Maxwell, and Isaac class GRELs piloting the gargantuan vehicle. The HHt-90 command variants contain an additional Kassandra class GREL along with a predominantly human staff.

On Terra Nova, the CEF is utilizing the HHt-90’s primarily in their reserves, but on the Barrington Basin front, the HHT-90’s fielded in their combat groups managed to engage and effectively cripple the reactivated WFP Landships. the macro acceleration cannon

crippled the older Landships and breached the out-hulls, allowing FLAIL strike teams into finish up the capture process.

CEF forces, however, were not prepared for the suicide missions the WFP fleet committed themselves in order to deny CEF forces entry into the Protectorate.

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