Gates of Antares: Virai Previews

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Virai Weapon Drones

Combat Level: Support

Where: The Dronescourge Returns

Possibly one of the most feared Virai drones after their First Instances, the Virai weapon drones are fast, highly capable and extremely dangerous. Though based on the multi-purpose warrior chassis, and theoretically usable in mining or scavenging roles, this drone is the most obviously defensive or militaristic drone in a Virai hive.

Though well armoured with an heavier form of the complex, Virai cerametallic alloy honeycomb armour, the drone can be vulnerable to sustaine dattack. To compensate, the Virai typically fit the drone with the power plants from two warriors and add multiple fusion flamers in the form of a flamer array, enabling it to fire in both dispersed or automatic mode or in a concentrated fire, anti-tank mode.

As ever, the Virai scavenging means that the architectors occasionally equip their weapon drones with recovered mag weaponry from other species.

Like all Virai, their weapon drones rely on their architectors for in-flight battlefield repairs and substantial amounts of command and control. Not being dependent on nanospore, they are immune to Scramble munitions and, of course, being artificial beings, Scoot munitions have no effect.

Virai Weapon Drone (Weapon Drone)	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
Weapon Drone with fusion cutter and flamer array* [or scavenged Mag Light Support or Mag Cannon]	6	5	4	9	5	7	Virai, MOD2

* +++ IMTel Alert: Data not yet available. Projection nine four quantum is multiple fusion flamers +++

Virai Manipulator Tools

The Virai Dronescourge are equipped with a wide range of different manipulator arms which vary drone-by-drone depending on the task they are appointed to carry out. When a task is completed, the drone either moves on to a similar task requiring the same appendages or is re-equipped with other appendages suitable to the new task.  The drones referred to as Warrior drones are used as heavy lifters when not in combat and are equipped with lighter weight tools and a pair of heavy digging/cutting tools: ripclaws.

Tool appendages

These tool-equipped appendages given to Virrai Constructor drones often include gripping arms, short-ranged slicers, drills, saws, bonders and jacks. The combination can be effective as close and hand-to-hand weapons.

Ripclaws

Ripclaws are multi-purpose in design, a combination of a power vice with digging and cutting blades useful for both demolitions and mining. On the battlefield, they are used as much in hand to hand combat as in tearing down the fabric of the walls and obstacles, ripping through doors or even destroying buildings.

The principle danger from ripclaws is the co-operation that is an integral component of Virai programming. When demolishing buildings, for example, where one Virai strikes, another will immediately follow up the strike in the exact same location to cause extreme damage to the fabric of the construction. On the battlefield, however, this means that a hit from one ripclaw is likely to be followed immediately by another, at the same, weakened spot.

Virai Hand Weapons	Range
Weapon	Effective	Long	Extreme	Strike Value	Special
Ripclaws	H2H only	–	–	2	2 Attacks, Breaching, Compound SV
Tool Appendages	5	–	–	0	2 Attacks

2 Attacks: The ‘weapon’ has two attacks in hand-to-hand

Compound SV: Like grenades in hand-to-hand, multiple ripclaw hits on the same model have their SV added together to produce one hit with the total SV.

Breaching: Ripclaws are Elective Breaching weapons.

Quelle: Beyond the Gates of Antares