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Build in cooperation by Haor Chall Engineering and Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc. for the Commerce Guild and Mining Guild, the Seismic Tank Carrier served as a deploy platform and carrier for Seismic Tanks and it’s chemical payload space variant. Restricted by Galactic Republic legislation to limit the military power of large companies, they were declared solely vehicles to aid mining, or agricultural planetary operations on a larger scale, with their secondary purpose well hidden. With the beginning of the Clone Wars however, the Separatist Alliance, the Confederacy of Independent Systems no longer had the need for such excuses and the Commerce Guild, Mining Guild and Trade Federation would use them as military vehicles more prominently in battles like Dantooine, Ukio and others. Designed to carry, two four, six, eight or ten Seismic Tanks at once the so called Seismic Tank Carrier was a purely civil transport and carry vehicle that itself lacked any major weapons or defenses. During the Clone Wars this was changed and beside it’s heavy armor various point-defense laser cannons and turbolaser cannons were added, as well as additional shields, which further slowed the vehicle down. Because of this Seosmic Tank Carriers themselves were often accompanied, sometimes even carried by Diamond-Class Cruisers, or Recusant-class ships to their destination as additional security measure. Without an enemy fleet or defenses however they by themselves could prove devastating and dangerous, as the mining Seismic Tank Carriers could activate their tanks in a row while still docked and produce a series of continued shockwaves and earthquakes with them that in a few worlds and battles even ripped continents apart along seismic-fault lines, while the agriworld chemical variants were enough to poison the atmosphere of whole worlds Both options made this original civil vehicle a true nightmare in the eyes of Republic Clones and Imperial Stormtroopers alike if they had to face them without any air, or orbital support, as they also quickly could tear trough even the heaviest of Republic and Imperial ground defense lines during a battle.

This was why the Galactic Republic quickly outlawed them during the early stage of the Clone Wars after encountering their devastating potential that did not distinguish between civil and military targets. The later Empire however would have more interest in continually use them, as weapons to crush local defenses and then blame it on mining or agricultural accidents, or a Rebel use of this purely civil vehicles. The more automatized and at the same time mining-production variants of the Seismic Tanks and Seismic Tank Carrier Factories and Industries would later also serve as a forerunner and idea giver of the later Imperial Leviathans and their successors, the World Devastators, also known as World Smashers, World Sweepers, Planet Smashers and City Eaters who themselves were automated factories crewed by droids. Always used as a means of further producing new own weapons and droids, while striking fear into the heart of the enemy, the later Seismic Tank Carriers of the Clone Wars were fully automatized and had the capability to even build Seismic Tanks themselves from inside the docking bays they would normally store them in, if they had access to the right and enough successors of doing so. Because of this Republic Clone Troopers and later Imperial Stormtroopers made the so called Seismic Tank Carriers their prime targets whenever they would find them on a battlefield or world as they recognized the dangerous potentials and destruction they could bring if they were left unchallenged and active for longer. This was also why ARC Troopers and Republic, as well as Imperial Commandos often infiltrated Seismic Tank Carriers to destroy them from the inside, often by blowing up the reactors, engines and repulsorlifts, so that the heavy ships would pummel and crash into the ground with the Seismic Tanks they had loaded. This was also the reason for Seismic Tank Carriers being a primal target for Republic and Imperial ships of the Republic Navy and Imperial Navy,, whenever their main mission was to directly support the ground forces branches of the Grand Army of the Republic, or the Imperial Army during battles invovling the Seismic Tank Carriers.

Description
inspired by www.deviantart.com/marcusstark…

Build in cooperation by Haor Chall Engineering and Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc. for the Commerce Guild and Mining Guild, the Seismic Tank Carrier served as a deploy platform and carrier for Seismic Tanks and it’s chemical payload space variant. Restricted by Galactic Republic legislation to limit the military power of large companies, they were declared solely vehicles to aid mining, or agricultural planetary operations on a larger scale, with their secondary purpose well hidden. With the beginning of the Clone Wars however, the Separatist Alliance, the Confederacy of Independent Systems no longer had the need for such excuses and the Commerce Guild, Mining Guild and Trade Federation would use them as military vehicles more prominently in battles like Dantooine, Ukio and others. Designed to carry, two four, six, eight or ten Seismic Tanks at once the so called Seismic Tank Carrier was a purely civil transport and carry vehicle that itself lacked any major weapons or defenses. During the Clone Wars this was changed and beside it’s heavy armor various point-defense laser cannons and turbolaser cannons were added, as well as additional shields, which further slowed the vehicle down. Because of this Seosmic Tank Carriers themselves were often accompanied, sometimes even carried by Diamond-Class Cruisers, or Recusant-class ships to their destination as additional security measure. Without an enemy fleet or defenses however they by themselves could prove devastating and dangerous, as the mining Seismic Tank Carriers could activate their tanks in a row while still docked and produce a series of continued shockwaves and earthquakes with them that in a few worlds and battles even ripped continents apart along seismic-fault lines, while the agriworld chemical variants were enough to poison the atmosphere of whole worlds Both options made this original civil vehicle a true nightmare in the eyes of Republic Clones and Imperial Stormtroopers alike if they had to face them without any air, or orbital support, as they also quickly could tear trough even the heaviest of Republic and Imperial ground defense lines during a battle.

This was why the Galactic Republic quickly outlawed them during the early stage of the Clone Wars after encountering their devastating potential that did not distinguish between civil and military targets. The later Empire however would have more interest in continually use them, as weapons to crush local defenses and then blame it on mining or agricultural accidents, or a Rebel use of this purely civil vehicles. The more automatized and at the same time mining-production variants of the Seismic Tanks and Seismic Tank Carrier Factories and Industries would later also serve as a forerunner and idea giver of the later Imperial Leviathans and their successors, the World Devastators, also known as World Smashers, World Sweepers, Planet Smashers and City Eaters who themselves were automated factories crewed by droids. Always used as a means of further producing new own weapons and droids, while striking fear into the heart of the enemy, the later Seismic Tank Carriers of the Clone Wars were fully automatized and had the capability to even build Seismic Tanks themselves from inside the docking bays they would normally store them in, if they had access to the right and enough successors of doing so. Because of this Republic Clone Troopers and later Imperial Stormtroopers made the so called Seismic Tank Carriers their prime targets whenever they would find them on a battlefield or world as they recognized the dangerous potentials and destruction they could bring if they were left unchallenged and active for longer. This was also why ARC Troopers and Republic, as well as Imperial Commandos often infiltrated Seismic Tank Carriers to destroy them from the inside, often by blowing up the reactors, engines and repulsorlifts, so that the heavy ships would pummel and crash into the ground with the Seismic Tanks they had loaded. This was also the reason for Seismic Tank Carriers being a primal target for Republic and Imperial ships of the Republic Navy and Imperial Navy,, whenever their main mission was to directly support the ground forces branches of the Grand Army of the Republic, or the Imperial Army during battles invovling the Seismic Tank Carriers.