Kanonian Military Equipment

Warships

Impossible Request class battleship

The Impossible Request is the aptly named, rumored Pallada replacement battleship project being undertaken by Kanon. Its pan-ZOCU designation is Lydia class.

Recollection class cruiser

Kanonian version.

Origin: Londenium
Primary Operator: ZOCU
Date Of Introduction: 2187
Role: Heavy Cruiser
Control System: Bridge
Length: 228 meters (hull)
Empty Mass: 32,600 tons
Loaded Mass: 36,200 tons
Powerplant: 2x Forced-Fusion Reactors
Main Thrusters: 2; Mercurion Type
Apogee Motors: 52
FTL Drive: Theta Type
Fixed Armament: 8x Twin Mega Particle Cannon Turrets, Leap Missile System, 8x AA Burst Cannon Turrets, 42x Cluster Missile Launchers, ACLS Warden System
Defensive Systems: Composite Armor, Flash Field
Strike Craft: 14

Mobile Weapons

One of the problems ZOCU had was that they had a zillion variants of everything. No one was ultimately guiltier than Kanon itself.

KMF-132 Virago

Even before smuggling the OMF-06 prototypes offworld and certainly long before the any space combat models even began assembly on Kanon, the Hoplite had to be turned to another task. The PACT invasion on Kanonian soil was a severe and immediate danger; even if they failed to interdict the plans they might still knock Kanon out of the war. Thus, the first mass production versions of ZOCU's new mobile suit were ground attack variants under the Kanonian designation KMF-132 Virago. The Virago reached the lowland defense lines in a slow but steady trickle. where they were provided ample opportunities to field test. From April through the end of the year, the suit received monthly minor updates. The design was eventually adopted for the strike oriented Hoplite Gamma.

KMF-133 Knightress

The Knightress was Kanon's local variant of its own flagship mobile suit.

The Knightress shared over 80% parts commonality with the standard Hoplite Alpha but had uprated electronics, homegrown systems and a dizzying surfeit of gadgetry that made it a difficult but ultimately rewarding variant to pilot.

Origin: Ginte Group
Primary Operator: Principality of Kanon; exports to ZOCU and friendly Rim/Expanse governments
Alternate Names: Hoplite Kappa, Hoplite 2k, Hoplite 2000, Hoplite Knightress
Date Of Introduction: 2185
Role: 3rd generation mass production mobile suit; local variant
Control System: linear frame; pilot only
Height: 16.0 meters
Weight: 53.2 tons (standard combat loadout)
Powerplant: 2 x K-0N forced fusion
Main Thrusters: 4
Apogee Motors: 14
Fixed Armament:
Options:
Defensive Systems: laminate armour

OMF-17/KMF-321 Marida

Origin: -
Primary Operator: Principality of Kanon
Date Of Introduction: 2190
Role: 4th generation mass production mobile suit
Control System: 1080 panoramic/linear-seat; pilot only
Height: 16.0 meters
Weight: 55.0 tons (standard combat loadout)
Powerplant: 2 x dc reactor
Main Thrusters: Mercurion furnace
Apogee Motors: 18
Fixed Armament:
Options:
Defensive Systems:

Historic Mobile Weapons

KMS-012 Huntress

The Kanonian designation of the standard Peltast. The KMS-012 Huntress was widely produced through the 60's and 70's in an initial version, and then a later KMS-013 Huntress Warden homeworld defence version optimised for surface combat in Kanon's wet climate and forested terrain. Development following full technical license in the late 60's eventually became the KMS-021 Marin.

KMS-021 Marin

During the Breakdown years, security concerns over Kanon's large Theta dust reserves along with growing national confidence and technical expertise spurred Kanon to develop an indigenous mobile suit industry. This entailed licensing the Londener OMF-04 and then developing a new machine off of it that catered to Kanon's environment. The result of these initial forays into combat mecha was the KMS-021 Marin, an evolution of the Peltast and the first amphibious mobile suit ever produced. Although primarily a technical and engineering exercise, a limited number of these machines were rolled out during the early 70's. Production resumed briefly as the somewhat updated KMS-022 Marin Hope to bolster homeland defences as Core relations froze just before the war. The Marin came to engage invading PACT forces during the Kanon Campaign both at and behind enemy lines, proving highly effective where terrain permitted.

KMS-111 Acgal

The KMS-111 Acgal was a third generation mobile suit developed concurrently with the OMF-06 Hoplite, a cousin with which it shared only modest parts commonality. It was the first mobile suit designed from ground up purely for terrestrial combat and amphibious capability. Although produced only in limited numbers for a limited time, the Acgal proved a deadly foe to PACT ground and was a constant danger to low-flying aerospacecraft since it was often equipped with external AAA options. The Acgal series were decommissioned in the postwar years of belt-tightening.

KMS-160 Urin

A rare unit , the KMS-160 Urin was a big, heavy suit designed to test the practicality of Kanonian theotechnology in terrestrial combat. Only three were ever built; they came too late to participate in the Kanon campaign and were later deployed to Suzumiya where all were destroyed.

Yamato Project

A secret mobile weapons development initiative undertake by Saitama-Kojima's Integrated Armaments Division, at times jointly with pan-ZOCU (chiefly Transbaalan) development efforts. The Yamato Project had some links to the Cape Project, which was the Transbaal-led intiative to produce aleph supersoldiers. The Yamato Project ultimately led to the IAD's bankruptcy and the final separation of Saitama and Kojima industrial groups.

KMA-170 Tonbogiri

The first mobile armour ever developed, the Tonbogiri, despite being incredibly overbudget, never achieved performance levels deemed sufficient for combat duties. The project was ultimately scrapped after some key innovations had been perfected, with those parts taken on towards its descendent, the Totsuka. The rest of this hulking monstrosity probably resides in an orbital warehouse somewhere.

KMA-200 Totsuka

The KMA-200 Totsuka was a part of both the Yamato Project as well as the greater pan-ZOCU development efforts that ultimately led to 4th generation mobile suits such as the Sarissa and Masamune. The key theotech power, propulsion, and weapons systems were more easily tested aboard a mobile armour as they were incrementally miniaturised. Achieving first flight late in 2186, Totsuka was a vaguely sword-shaped machine featuring mercurion thrusters, several megaparticle cannons and a scattering field. Intermittent testing through 2187 culminated in participation in a single raiding operation deep into PACT space in the hands of Alyssa Aire Altrusia. Thereafter, the renowned ace was recalled (along with a number of other Cape Project veterans) for early prototype testing of the Sarissa. The Totsuka was then tracked down by a special PACT task force sent to hunt it and destroyed by ace pilot Giles Kennedy while in the hands of an unknown.

KMA-240 Kusanagi

By 2187, rival industrialsts (and by extension, the many high officers of the Kanonian Militia that were their relatives) demanded that some sort of tangible, practical machine emerge from the funding black hole of Saitama-Kojima's Integrated Armaments Division. The authors of the Yamato Project (who had even been saving the designation for just such an occasion) replied with the fearsome KMA-240 Kusanagi. An expanded and evolved Totsuka with all the old toys perfected and a slew of new ones, the R&D budget of the Kusanagi was more than that of every previous mobile weapon combined. The resulting superweapon was first deployed at UNSO-1701 in the hands of Alyssa Aire Altrusia, who became infamous as the Beast of Rapture. The Kusanagi was one of the big ace killers along the PACT front and its high profile meant it was more feared than many of ZOCU's more advanced but relatively clandestine projects. Near the end of the war, she was seriously damaged by the combined efforts of Majors Lauren Applefield and Ramlakana McDoom. After the war, the Kusanagi was repaired but then soon mothballed. Its present location is not known.

KMA-300 Ame

Named for the Ame-no-Nuhoko. It was never completed and supposedly destroyed after the war but its parts have never been found.

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KMS-180 Amakuni

Originally an early wartime attempt at creating a successor to the Hoplite, the project never got off the ground and the prototypes were instead redesignated and acquired by the IAD for system tests that cost a ton of money and never went anywhere but up.

KMS-210 Sadamune

After the revolutionary KMA-200 Totsuka, Yamato Project engineers pressed on with their efforts to miniaturise previously starship scale theotechnology into a mobile suit. The result, in early 2187, was the KMS-210 Sadamune an expanded and greatly modified Hoplite Beta skeleton with all new bodywork stuffed with the first plethora of Theta dust derived gadgetry fitted to a mobile suit. These early prototype systems had never been intended for military practicality, simply performance and concept demonstration. As a result, the Sadamune was physically taxing and outright dangerous to pilot, accounting for the injury of two test pilots. Its chassis glowed very brightly in operation as the space-time transients produced by the mercurion furnaces had no containment whatsoever. For purely political reasons, the Sadamune found itself transferred to Londenium. It found its way to the hands of baseline pilot [MacRisa] who mastered the machine and became the enormously famous Blazing Star, Londenium's top mobile suit ace.

KMS-310 Muramasa

The KMS-310 Muramasa was the ultimate product of the Yamato Project and the final development program which bankrupted the Integrated Armaments Division. The test type unit narrowly missed completion in time to participate at the final Battle of Haraway. A few weeks after armistice, the unit vanished entirely from records.

Other Equipment

EMS11163 Contessa assault rifle
A gauss rifle that has been the Kanonian Militia's standard medium-weight infantry rifle since the early 70's.

EMS11243 Rasenou battle rifle

EMS11381 Artaria C.C.
The C.C. (Close Combat) is an electrochemical weapon designed primarily for short range combat. Its mass and recoil are sufficiently manageable for a trained transgene knight to shoot one-handed, keeping the other hand free to operate other devices. Alternatively, a second copy of the weapon is said to effectively square a commando's firepower.

EMS11905 Artaria Dream Express

EMS05115 Gothica barrier jacket

EMS05277 Astra 4 infantry frame

EMS05881 Phantasm blitz barrier jacket

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