[Name: Mackinaw "Shadow Float"] [Description: The culmination of vehicle propulsion technology. It uses one large fuel thruster as its primary propulsion system, and six Prototype Small Vector Thrusters for vector adjustment.] [As Mackinaw General Vehicle Company and the Atlas Group's first AV, its body structure and wiring layout, modified from the Mackinaw "Mammoth," are somewhat rough. Its unpolished exterior also encounters extremely high air resistance at high speeds.] [This vehicle isn't very fast. Compared with other AVs, it's slightly less agile, only a little better than a traditional helicopter. And because it needs to accommodate a flight control system, it takes up a great deal of space that could otherwise be used to deploy equipment.] [Simply put, this is an AV whose primary purpose is to fly. Other than that, the only things worth mentioning are the toughness of its body and the strength of its armor.] [New vehicle research complete. Production has begun.] [Tech Points awarded: 1000] [Current Tech Points: 23500]
Whoosh-
The engine's roar was like a storm breaking right before their eyes!
That same storm appeared in the eyes of the technical experts and workers in the OCT Network Domain: the engineers from Mackinaw, the Aldecaldos mechanics, and the gang's wrench jockeys.
They'd built an AV!
Compared with the Rayfield company's high-end AV, the "Excalibur," this vehicle had no streamlined appearance, no handcrafted bodywork designed with painstaking care, no luxurious natural-material trim, and no cutting-edge comfort that let you enjoy peace and quiet even inside the car.
Compared with Militech's "Manticore," it had no large-caliber autocannon and no platform capable of supporting anti-armor vehicle weapons. It might even struggle to withstand an impact of the same magnitude.
But this vehicle could really fly.
Shadow Float hadn't even undergone a test flight. Its unfinished parts, components,