Clanker

Clankers were great eight legged, ten legged or - rarely - twelve legged machines developed during the Lyrinx War and used to fight the Lyrinx.



Design
Clankers were made by Artificers during the Lyrinx War. They were made of overlapping plates of metal for armour and had port holes for windows. Situated on the top was a shooter's platform sporting a javelard and a catapult. Although in early models, these couldn't be used at the same time, they were later revised to be able to use both together.

Like the name suggests, riding in a clanker was very noisy, uncomfortable and cramped. Sleeping in one was near-impossible and travelling in one was hardly a blessing though more preffered then walking in horrible conditions.

Power
Clankers were controlled by operators who used controllers that they linked to the field and drew power through to control the movement of the clanker. Occasionaly the field would be lost or too weak to travel on which would reduce it to a crawling speed (the speed of a man running was said to be the fastest they travelled) and if cut off suddenly, emergency power could be retrieved from a set of fly wheels stored with power.