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For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with suggestions from the Dornie and the Elflette.

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With a growing market for its military-oriented systems, OSAMI - Outer Systems Alliance Military Industries - decided to try and leverage its brand recognition by introducing a vehicle that was not ultimately destined for the OSA but rather the wider galactic civilian market. That vehicle would be the 'Type W' and its sibling the 'Type H'. Neither were particularly creative designations but the design was not particularly creative either. The goal was a simple and reasonably straightforward hard-working truck-type vehicle with an eye on the civilian market on colony and frontier worlds. Rugged, tough, and dependable - and not very expensive either.

Which made the conversion to a 'Technical basically inevitable.

The base model is a four wheeled vehicle with admirable ground clearance and simple construction built on a rugged frame. The 'Type W' comes with a default molecular converter engine that will run on anything from moonshine to horse grass while the 'Type H' is for high falutin' city-types and goes full fusion and replaces the wheels with solid-state repulsor motors and is much more expensive as a result. Both are Super Cab designs with a medium length bed. The doors are an interesting design with each sliding up / out then turning over to lay flat. This allows for rapid entrance and exit - the front two seats are rotating captain's chairs and the rear two face outward and can slide to the middle or close to the door. An additional jump bench is build into the bed.

The standard 'Technical package replaces the normal body panels with light armor plating, adds firing ports to all four doors, and adds a pair of sliding articulated arms to the rear cabin that can then mount whatever hardware one likes. There is a matching crew-served weapon mount on the roof and OSAMI will gladly fill all three slots with whatever weaponry one might need. A brush bar, winch, tool boxes, and roll bar with lights might as well be standard. With a sturdy and easy-to-modify chassis, both variants are particularly suited to additional 'upgrades' with adventurous owners heading all the way up to missile launcher and light field pieces.

This particular vehicle mounts two very large speakers under the 'hood' that have a direct connection to the engine - these are covered by the grilled cowlings. It is marked for use by the Tribal Council on High Bluff, a frontier colony world settled by a group claiming Chinook ethnic ancestry. High Bluff is home to the Caramel Bear, which isn't a bear at all and isn't particularly sweet either. Take a wolverine, cross it with a honey badger, and then kick it squarely in the nuts several times and you have an approximation of their appearance and temperament. A bit larger than both, they are best avoided but when that isn't possible loud music might drive them off while the psuedo-miniguns are there in case it doesn't.

For those interested, Caramel Bear meat is palatable if greasy and is best used in stews and other slow-cooked recipes. Their pelts can be worth a bit in the exotic fur markets but generally those high-cycle accelerators don't leave much more than scraps...

Description
For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with suggestions from the Dornie and the Elflette.

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With a growing market for its military-oriented systems, OSAMI - Outer Systems Alliance Military Industries - decided to try and leverage its brand recognition by introducing a vehicle that was not ultimately destined for the OSA but rather the wider galactic civilian market. That vehicle would be the 'Type W' and its sibling the 'Type H'. Neither were particularly creative designations but the design was not particularly creative either. The goal was a simple and reasonably straightforward hard-working truck-type vehicle with an eye on the civilian market on colony and frontier worlds. Rugged, tough, and dependable - and not very expensive either.

Which made the conversion to a 'Technical basically inevitable.

The base model is a four wheeled vehicle with admirable ground clearance and simple construction built on a rugged frame. The 'Type W' comes with a default molecular converter engine that will run on anything from moonshine to horse grass while the 'Type H' is for high falutin' city-types and goes full fusion and replaces the wheels with solid-state repulsor motors and is much more expensive as a result. Both are Super Cab designs with a medium length bed. The doors are an interesting design with each sliding up / out then turning over to lay flat. This allows for rapid entrance and exit - the front two seats are rotating captain's chairs and the rear two face outward and can slide to the middle or close to the door. An additional jump bench is build into the bed.

The standard 'Technical package replaces the normal body panels with light armor plating, adds firing ports to all four doors, and adds a pair of sliding articulated arms to the rear cabin that can then mount whatever hardware one likes. There is a matching crew-served weapon mount on the roof and OSAMI will gladly fill all three slots with whatever weaponry one might need. A brush bar, winch, tool boxes, and roll bar with lights might as well be standard. With a sturdy and easy-to-modify chassis, both variants are particularly suited to additional 'upgrades' with adventurous owners heading all the way up to missile launcher and light field pieces.

This particular vehicle mounts two very large speakers under the 'hood' that have a direct connection to the engine - these are covered by the grilled cowlings. It is marked for use by the Tribal Council on High Bluff, a frontier colony world settled by a group claiming Chinook ethnic ancestry. High Bluff is home to the Caramel Bear, which isn't a bear at all and isn't particularly sweet either. Take a wolverine, cross it with a honey badger, and then kick it squarely in the nuts several times and you have an approximation of their appearance and temperament. A bit larger than both, they are best avoided but when that isn't possible loud music might drive them off while the psuedo-miniguns are there in case it doesn't.

For those interested, Caramel Bear meat is palatable if greasy and is best used in stews and other slow-cooked recipes. Their pelts can be worth a bit in the exotic fur markets but generally those high-cycle accelerators don't leave much more than scraps...