Mk 34.4 Walker
Drastically incomplete - especially in one important way...
For a "Walker" this model has a decided absence of legs. Had only enough time to finish this or Tiberia above before handing it in - chose Tiberia. The final model of the Walker would have powerful digigrade legs, massively reinforced with pneumatics and well armoured from the front only (conveying the well founded arrogance of Imperial design: the enemy is in front, behind there can be only rubble). Final model would also have a detachable, square 'shell' that covered the bottom half (the light metal and below).
The idea was for a multi-purpose, space to ground vehicle. It would start as a space-ship turret. The top section is all that's visible from the ship's exterior, rotating to angle the canons at enemy ships. When all orbital targets are destroyed, the turret rising up and floats free of the ship, the bottom half encased in its shell complete with manoeuvring thrusters that fire to turn the turret so it can fall, bottom first, straight into through the atmosphere. Thrusters and mass-fields slow final descent, but the turret still lands with a massive force, the cloud of earth not obscuring the red of metal sighing from entry. With a sharp clank the bottom shell splits, the four sides clanking open, the powerful legs rising up, and the Walker stepping up out of it's shell, and marching out onto the planet's surface.
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