NationStates Jolt Archive

Several Months Ago
"Chaz, there's too many guns on this tank."
"What're you talking about Barclay?"
"According to my calculations, the weight of the guns and armour on this tank will crush it."
"Lemme see that...Shoot, you're right. But what're we meant to do?"
"Hmm...I know," he grinned, "get us more money, and I'll do the rest..."
"How can I do that?"
"Tell them...tell them we're going to revolutionise the way the Ineffable military fights ground wars...And while you do that I'm going to call my friends in the Advanced Research Department."
"O-kay...Wait, aren't we the Advanced Research Department?"
"That's what the military want the populace to think. I'm going to be calling the Very Advanced Research Department."
"You mean the hidden labs on the asteroid belt?"
"What? Oh all right, the More Advanced Research Department."
"The one's on Himalia?"
"Look, will you just shut up? I mean the Slightly-More-Advanced Research Department."
"Oh, the gravtech division?"
"I thought I told you to shut up?"

Present Day
"General Whang, I'm sure you will find this very interesting."
"It better be. I tripled your funding and you didn't even give me a straight answer about what you were doing."
"Well, sir, to put it basically; we've built you a gravship."
"Now this I like."
"As you know our dropships use gravtech to slow their descent and for ease of travel; that way they don't need wheels or anything. Coupled with the research started a while back, we've built what at first appears to be an uber-heavy tank..."
http://aa.1asphost.com/AllyG/papyrusside.JPG
http://aa.1asphost.com/AllyG/papyrus.JPG
"...However, in this form it is understandably very, very slow. A top speed of 20mph, in fact. But, it can split..."
http://aa.1asphost.com/AllyG/papyrussplit.JPG
"Leaving a fast-moving medium assault vehicle on the ground, and a small, heavy gravtank floating above. Like this, the assault vehicle can reach 70mph and the gravtank 40."
"I'm impressed. So what armaments does it have?"
"The bottom half, has two 120mm gauss cannons, and a small anti-aircraft missile launcher, three missiles. The floating part has two 100mm gauss cannons, an identical anti-aircraft battery, two 10" gauss cannons, and four gattling guns in two twin mounts."
"Fairly impressive. Keep up the grav research, you've now got me wanting a gravfleet. Oh, and put this machine into mass production. What did you call it again?"
"The Papyrus class, sir."

OOC: Oooooooh, pretty