Type-30 Locust Light Excavation/Anti-Fortification Platform

The is a Republic vehicle designed for siege work. Agile, and with a powerful cannon, it lays fortifications low with ease.

Description
The Locust is the lightest excavator in the Republic arsenal, and is by far the most nimble. Relatively lightweight, and surprisingly quick over rough terrain, the Locust has been used to dissect fortifications for centuries.

The Main weapon, which the Locust is built around, is a powerful Focus Cannon. The lightest of it's category, what is lacks in firepower it makes up for it accuracy. The fast charging beam can quickly cut through armour and structures, though it is incapable of moving quickly while in the process of firing, reducing its effectiveness against moving vehicles.

The Locust itself is relatively lightly armoured, making it frail in a stand-up fight. In instead relies on its superior agility and shielding to avoid permanent harm.

Republic Locusts have been heavily modified, and what were once ad-hoc battlefield modifications have now become permanent design features. These include a high-impulse shield, capable of fast-charging back to operational status. IT can also drain its shielding batteries, to increase the intensity of the focus beam. This is a dangerous trade off, and forces the operator to also expose the power cores as well.

Republic augmentations also include new technology, such as the the MOIRA, which consists of two ordnance pods on either side of the cabine, that can alternate between launching a weapon that can then spray down plasma mines onto the battlefield, or a round then sprays the battlefield with plasma explosives meant to remove mines. Lastly, slung under the front legs it has anti-mine weapons, that use high-intensity sonic waves to disrupt explosives beneath the surface and detonate them.