Jocasta Heavy Speeder

The Jocasta Heavy Speeder is a relic of the Unification Wars. In those early days before the Great Crusade had even made it of Terra, the speeder proved an invaluable rapid response or fast attack craft. Its mobility and weapons ensured that it was an ever present threat to the Emperor’s enemies. However once His wars had begun in earnest, issues regarding reliability and maintenance saw it relegated solely to the few Mechanicum enclaves willing to provide it with the requisite care to ensure its use.

The pattern would see a temporary resurgence after the XIIIth’s agreement with the M’Pandex Forgeworld saw it enter use throughout that Legion. Thanks to the Sky Reavers’ combat doctrine, the Jocasta’s capabilities were once again clearly displayed. However, other Legions who attempted to adopt the vehicle soon found that its old issues still remained. Any attempt at using them for prolonged periods or on detached missions without ready support typically met with failure. It had been some facet of M’Pandex’ techno-arcana which allowed the Sky Reavers ready use of the craft without such malfunctions. The vast quantities that had been produced before this realisation were moth-balled and placed within Legion reserves.

The outbreak of the Five Ruins would see many of these light tanks recommitted to service. Traitors saw their stocks as a comparatively expendable resource well served by its speed and armament. The Loyalists simply scrambled to use whatever was at hand to hold their attackers at bay. Separatists looked to them as yet other technology for them to improve upon. In any case, such was the nature of the great battles fought that extended maintenance was seldom a concern, the vehicles rarely surviving their first battle.

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