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Knight-class Mechanized Walker
Class: Knight
Role: Ground Assault and Defense.
Size: Six meters
Armament: A Marstech Alpha-pattern 25mm autocannon. Two arm-mounted 10mm rotary machine guns. One Marstech Martanium/Tungsten alloy Utility blade.
Shields: N/A
Engine: One tritium-powered Langley-class power plant, with two Raleigh-class auxiliary power plants.
Gravity: N/A
Auxiliary units: Two Oculus-class scout drones.

The Knight-class is the sum total of joint Terran and Martian cooperation in the creation of mechanized exoskeletons for use on both Luna and Mars. Started in 2143, one hundred years from the present day, the first mechanized walkers were built to be used in construction and mining across the Sol system, but many were retrofitted in order to support ground troops during the formation of the Republic, and against the threat of pirates in the outer belts. They have become mostly symbolic, not often used except in rescue operations where great strength is needed.

While in combat, the Knight’s heavy armor protects the driver from nearly all forms of small-arm fire, and can mitigate the damage of light anti-armor rockets and heavy weapon fire. In low to no gee, the suits can be very fast, utilizing a series of thrusters to maneuver, then their great strength to launch them off a surface. They are not, usually, fitted to work in vacuum without any kind of support platform. Working in squads of three typically, Knights were used among the belt to make the initial breaches into pirate strongholds, then hold the beach-head until Albions or other transports could off-load their troopers. Damaged components could be jettisoned during combat, including up to two of the power cores.

During one particularly fierce battle during the last days of belt piracy, a damaged Knight launched a cracked power core into the main bunker of the pirate defenses. The resulting blast, nuclear in nature, compromised the integrity of the ice asteroid and helped its final breakup. It put quite a period to the end of rampant belt piracy, and the birth of the Pax Republica.