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Designed to move spacecraft as large as the LL 924 from the landing pad to
on-site maintenance facilities, this “big rig” has also proven useful for other
endeavors. During the first human-experienced 24-year megaflood on the planet
Circlet, the gigantic machine proved invaluable in carrying colonists to high
ground after available air and space vehicles had been filled to capacity. Its
sheer size has been known to frighten away some of the more aggressive
xenomorphs, such as the crystalcougar and ironskunk.
Though some Spaceship Surface Transports have been modified to operate in near
vacuum, such as on Luna, the standard design includes an air-breathing big-bore
V-12 fueled by hydrogen that is garnered from solar-power-based electrolysis.
Aided by the latest in autonavigation systems, the vehicle can drive without
human aid, though often a human pilot is employed to ensure smooth operations.
Modularity is a key component to this machine’s versatility. The “AE-35” antenna
has proven quite useful in long-distance and satellite-based communication.
Additional high-powered “sensors” are indispensable for travel on worlds that
have those rare block-headed and vicious xenomorphs that don’t seem to have a
sense of fear, such as freak-woks. These devices can spot exobiological dangers
from kilometers away, quite useful in neutralizing the problem. The modular
hard-points can also accommodate other items, such as seats, storage facilities
and porta-johns.
I expect to display this Classic Space truck at BrickFest 2007, Portland.
-best,
Wolf
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| (...) I like this quite a bit - it would have come in handy tootling around my Moonbase module (the Alpha-Omega Landing Pad II) for sure! My two nitpicks are so small I can't believe I'm bringing them up, but I would have figured the Classic Space (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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