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The Sd50P ("Polis") Battlesuit was designed for the unique requirements of the Gallan Constabulary and National Police Bureau for law enforcement use. By the mid-2020's, global economic liberalization brought about by collapse of capital controls, increasingly lax enforcement of environmental and economic regulations, and a general social ennui had coalesced in most major urban areas of Gallia to produce an increase in most forms of violent crime. Between 2010 and 2030, the rate of aggravated assault and rape alone had sextupled in most urban areas. Secondary education training, fostered by the government since the 1950's and aimed at increasing vocational aptitude, resulted in the same violent populations producing mechanically and technically skilled individuals. The culmination of this was that, although the Gallan government was proficient in controlling the distribution of arms and ammunition through various government approved gun clubs, many criminals were still able to produce dangerous weapons such as improvised explosive devices/land mines, "Burp guns", and aluminum walled hand grenades. Cybernetic crimes also grew, with discarded cell phones and "burners" being used as digital "master keys" to steal automobiles or break into homes through their wireless locks.

In response to the digital crimes, the numerous law enforcement agencies of the Gallan government had formed Cyber Divisions, spun off from online sex crimes and Internet crimes divisions of the early '00's and '10's, that policed these electronics and infiltrated hacking groups online. Physical crimes called for new equipment, including improvements in body armor, which had remained the old standby "field cap" and "skateboard helmet" since the late 1980's. Additional improvements came in the mine protected vehicles of the NPB's Special Assault Teams and Constabulary's Piketen special forces units. Unfortunately, the various "booster gangs" (so named for their commercialization of petty larceny and fencing of high value goods) of the late '20's and early '30's, using their advanced knowledge of metalworking, access to various criminal hacking or open source software "cracking" networks, and the general inability of urban law enforcement to simply keep an eye on every man amplifier in a warehouse, had inevitably stockpiled small clusters of man-amplifiers retrofitted with "barracks buster" propane mortars and large, multiple barrel "burp guns" resembling the Nordenfelt machine guns of the 1880's.

Thickly armored with scavenged steel and aluminum, these "booster boys" staged numerous high profile heists of corporate offices, "smash and grab" raids of bitcoin miners and recreational artificial intelligence warehouses, and one notorious "assault" on a regional Riksbank involving high explosives (later identified as TATP), heavy machine guns, and a pair of armored cars. Along with remote landmines placed along routes of entry, the boosters successfully delayed the Piketen response force and caused numerous casualties when a police van was destroyed by an explosive mine. A second assault by heliborne Piketen troops was routed when several gangsters on the rooftop managed to shoot out the pilot as the police troops were descending by fast ropes. The heist was only thwarted by the arrival of a motor police company from the National Police Bureau, which was equipped with 90mm armored gun carriers and armored cars, and only after several casualties had been sustained by the motorized police in combat with the boosters, but by then the Riksbank's supercomputers had been thoroughly trashed by thermite, explosives, and small arms, and roughly a quarter of the IT department had been killed. Approximately 27 Piketen officers were killed, the majority of which when the armored car was destroyed, and a dozen wounded. Following the incident, production of military-grade ambush resistant cars and vans for the SAT and Piketen, based on Royal Army examples, was rapidly made. Within 4 years both national police forces had fully replaced their fleets of vehicles for special purpose squads with mine resistant, bulletproof vehicles. However, this was deemed insufficient for the inevitable assault phase.

In response to the vulnerability of the officers themselves, the police services requested a special derivative of the Army's Fullback powersuit (known to the Royal Army simply as Body Armor, Powered), to be known as Sd50P ("Polis"), with the replacement of the nuclear protection hydride layer with an aluminum-ceramic metal matrix, which provided increased ballistic protection (14.5mm multiple ball vice 12.7mm AP) at a cost of reduced combat range. As the police forces would be operating these suits from mobile armored cars or police flying cranes (H-54 Tarhes), the reduction in combat range was seen as a non-issue. Initial service weapons were a cut-down Ksp m/92 .50" heavy machine gun and a 12 gauge submachine gun with a underbarrel 20x49mm grenade launcher. Flashing blue lights (police), large shoulder mounted searchlights, and radio-electronic intercept antennae (UHF/VHF for detecting, analyzing, and triangulating cell phone use for anti-IED) were standard. For anti-battlesuit (anti-"booster") combat, a 20x110mm automatic revolver, based on a scaled up version of the Constabulary's .357 autorevolver, was issued.

Later on, the development of a 20x110mm "assault rifle" with a 70mm UBGL, and a 20x110mm "assault cannon" with a 150-rounds helical magazine would appear in the 2030's and 2040's respectively, as the mission of the SAT/Piketen's battlesuit squads shifted from anti-gangster operations to high risk warrants and counter-special forces.

During the Dorestad Incident of 2049, it is known that the Hyssna Region's battlesuit unit (A, B, and D platoons and the division commander, comprising 28 battlesuits total) engaged in combat with enemy forces, defeating a Frisian naval special forces platoon (reportedly at least 30 soldiers and half a dozen battlesuits) armed with a nuclear demolitions charge, preventing them from destroying the Hyssna Valley Dam (a major concrete edifice and reservoir that supplied hydroelectric power to the southeastern region of the Gallan metropole) before dawn on All Hallows' Eve. The Sd50P's were engaged by Frisian "Medusa" battlesuits (ironically, the Frisian codename for the Sd50 was "Kwallen") armed with 9x90mm machine guns and 115mm ATGW and Frisian commando frogmen armed with 15.5mm anti-tank rifles and 9.3mm submachine guns.

The special forces troops had been detected by a pair of H.M. Coast Guard (Kustvakt; HMKV) police cutters and pursued into the shallows, with several dozen 228.6mm ASW rockets and at least two lightweight torpedoes being expended in the chase, although it is believed that none of the infiltrators' minisubs had been destroyed. The pursuit continued over land when the subs entered a narrow waterway that approached the Hyssna dam. Local dam security called 112, reporting several "men in black" scaling the edifice "with grappling hooks from submarines". Already on high alert due to the ongoing political crisis at the time, the Hyssna Region's NPB command unit responded by deploying a contingent of battlesuit officers aboard heavy lift helicopters and an armored car.

At the same time, a Coast Guardsman (the anti-infiltrator unit of the HMKV) platoon of roughly 40 men, armed with 6.5mm Ak58s and Ksp60 light machine guns, 84mm recoilless rifles, and a pair of flamethrowers also joined the fight, with help from a pair of Coast Guard Hkp 11's, aboard several Coast Guard 2.5-ton trucks. One of the helicopters was shot down by small arms fire almost immediately and crashed into the reservoir, although all four crewmen escaped before the aircraft sank. The remaining helicopter flew several low passes over the moored submarines, strafing their roofs with its medium machine guns, and (likely unintentionally) killing the nuclear demolition charge carrier as he was ascending the dam. As the nuclear charge was recovered in a heavily damaged and unarmed state several miles downstream from the dam later that day, it seems that it had simply been lost in the confusion, and the resulting loss of surprise and lack of clear consensus on whether their nuclear weapon was operational contributed greatly to the relatively low casualties and short duration of the anti-commando operation. By the end of the brief battle, eight Frisian troops were injured or killed (mostly ascending the dam), four Frisian battlesuits had been disabled with their pilots injured, and eight Coast Guardsmen had been wounded, including the helicopter crew. The remaining special forces troops had either retreated in one the submarines, or surrendered to responding Guardsmen and police officers.

Description

The Sd50P ("Polis") Battlesuit was designed for the unique requirements of the Gallan Constabulary and National Police Bureau for law enforcement use. By the mid-2020's, global economic liberalization brought about by collapse of capital controls, increasingly lax enforcement of environmental and economic regulations, and a general social ennui had coalesced in most major urban areas of Gallia to produce an increase in most forms of violent crime. Between 2010 and 2030, the rate of aggravated assault and rape alone had sextupled in most urban areas. Secondary education training, fostered by the government since the 1950's and aimed at increasing vocational aptitude, resulted in the same violent populations producing mechanically and technically skilled individuals. The culmination of this was that, although the Gallan government was proficient in controlling the distribution of arms and ammunition through various government approved gun clubs, many criminals were still able to produce dangerous weapons such as improvised explosive devices/land mines, "Burp guns", and aluminum walled hand grenades. Cybernetic crimes also grew, with discarded cell phones and "burners" being used as digital "master keys" to steal automobiles or break into homes through their wireless locks.

In response to the digital crimes, the numerous law enforcement agencies of the Gallan government had formed Cyber Divisions, spun off from online sex crimes and Internet crimes divisions of the early '00's and '10's, that policed these electronics and infiltrated hacking groups online. Physical crimes called for new equipment, including improvements in body armor, which had remained the old standby "field cap" and "skateboard helmet" since the late 1980's. Additional improvements came in the mine protected vehicles of the NPB's Special Assault Teams and Constabulary's Piketen special forces units. Unfortunately, the various "booster gangs" (so named for their commercialization of petty larceny and fencing of high value goods) of the late '20's and early '30's, using their advanced knowledge of metalworking, access to various criminal hacking or open source software "cracking" networks, and the general inability of urban law enforcement to simply keep an eye on every man amplifier in a warehouse, had inevitably stockpiled small clusters of man-amplifiers retrofitted with "barracks buster" propane mortars and large, multiple barrel "burp guns" resembling the Nordenfelt machine guns of the 1880's.

Thickly armored with scavenged steel and aluminum, these "booster boys" staged numerous high profile heists of corporate offices, "smash and grab" raids of bitcoin miners and recreational artificial intelligence warehouses, and one notorious "assault" on a regional Riksbank involving high explosives (later identified as TATP), heavy machine guns, and a pair of armored cars. Along with remote landmines placed along routes of entry, the boosters successfully delayed the Piketen response force and caused numerous casualties when a police van was destroyed by an explosive mine. A second assault by heliborne Piketen troops was routed when several gangsters on the rooftop managed to shoot out the pilot as the police troops were descending by fast ropes. The heist was only thwarted by the arrival of a motor police company from the National Police Bureau, which was equipped with 90mm armored gun carriers and armored cars, and only after several casualties had been sustained by the motorized police in combat with the boosters, but by then the Riksbank's supercomputers had been thoroughly trashed by thermite, explosives, and small arms, and roughly a quarter of the IT department had been killed. Approximately 27 Piketen officers were killed, the majority of which when the armored car was destroyed, and a dozen wounded. Following the incident, production of military-grade ambush resistant cars and vans for the SAT and Piketen, based on Royal Army examples, was rapidly made. Within 4 years both national police forces had fully replaced their fleets of vehicles for special purpose squads with mine resistant, bulletproof vehicles. However, this was deemed insufficient for the inevitable assault phase.

In response to the vulnerability of the officers themselves, the police services requested a special derivative of the Army's Fullback powersuit (known to the Royal Army simply as Body Armor, Powered), to be known as Sd50P ("Polis"), with the replacement of the nuclear protection hydride layer with an aluminum-ceramic metal matrix, which provided increased ballistic protection (14.5mm multiple ball vice 12.7mm AP) at a cost of reduced combat range. As the police forces would be operating these suits from mobile armored cars or police flying cranes (H-54 Tarhes), the reduction in combat range was seen as a non-issue. Initial service weapons were a cut-down Ksp m/92 .50" heavy machine gun and a 12 gauge submachine gun with a underbarrel 20x49mm grenade launcher. Flashing blue lights (police), large shoulder mounted searchlights, and radio-electronic intercept antennae (UHF/VHF for detecting, analyzing, and triangulating cell phone use for anti-IED) were standard. For anti-battlesuit (anti-"booster") combat, a 20x110mm automatic revolver, based on a scaled up version of the Constabulary's .357 autorevolver, was issued.

Later on, the development of a 20x110mm "assault rifle" with a 70mm UBGL, and a 20x110mm "assault cannon" with a 150-rounds helical magazine would appear in the 2030's and 2040's respectively, as the mission of the SAT/Piketen's battlesuit squads shifted from anti-gangster operations to high risk warrants and counter-special forces.

During the Dorestad Incident of 2049, it is known that the Hyssna Region's battlesuit unit (A, B, and D platoons and the division commander, comprising 28 battlesuits total) engaged in combat with enemy forces, defeating a Frisian naval special forces platoon (reportedly at least 30 soldiers and half a dozen battlesuits) armed with a nuclear demolitions charge, preventing them from destroying the Hyssna Valley Dam (a major concrete edifice and reservoir that supplied hydroelectric power to the southeastern region of the Gallan metropole) before dawn on All Hallows' Eve. The Sd50P's were engaged by Frisian "Medusa" battlesuits (ironically, the Frisian codename for the Sd50 was "Kwallen") armed with 9x90mm machine guns and 115mm ATGW and Frisian commando frogmen armed with 15.5mm anti-tank rifles and 9.3mm submachine guns.

The special forces troops had been detected by a pair of H.M. Coast Guard (Kustvakt; HMKV) police cutters and pursued into the shallows, with several dozen 228.6mm ASW rockets and at least two lightweight torpedoes being expended in the chase, although it is believed that none of the infiltrators' minisubs had been destroyed. The pursuit continued over land when the subs entered a narrow waterway that approached the Hyssna dam. Local dam security called 112, reporting several "men in black" scaling the edifice "with grappling hooks from submarines". Already on high alert due to the ongoing political crisis at the time, the Hyssna Region's NPB command unit responded by deploying a contingent of battlesuit officers aboard heavy lift helicopters and an armored car.

At the same time, a Coast Guardsman (the anti-infiltrator unit of the HMKV) platoon of roughly 40 men, armed with 6.5mm Ak58s and Ksp60 light machine guns, 84mm recoilless rifles, and a pair of flamethrowers also joined the fight, with help from a pair of Coast Guard Hkp 11's, aboard several Coast Guard 2.5-ton trucks. One of the helicopters was shot down by small arms fire almost immediately and crashed into the reservoir, although all four crewmen escaped before the aircraft sank. The remaining helicopter flew several low passes over the moored submarines, strafing their roofs with its medium machine guns, and (likely unintentionally) killing the nuclear demolition charge carrier as he was ascending the dam. As the nuclear charge was recovered in a heavily damaged and unarmed state several miles downstream from the dam later that day, it seems that it had simply been lost in the confusion, and the resulting loss of surprise and lack of clear consensus on whether their nuclear weapon was operational contributed greatly to the relatively low casualties and short duration of the anti-commando operation. By the end of the brief battle, eight Frisian troops were injured or killed (mostly ascending the dam), four Frisian battlesuits had been disabled with their pilots injured, and eight Coast Guardsmen had been wounded, including the helicopter crew. The remaining special forces troops had either retreated in one the submarines, or surrendered to responding Guardsmen and police officers.