Felt like drawing a tank.
For those interested:
The idea is it's built by the humans from my fictional universe, with Syndicate technology. The humans in my universe are slightly ahead of us, and the Syndicate are a few centuries ahead. It has two big fuckin' main barrels, and 4 plasma turrets, similar to those in terminator (you can see one of the rear ones firing).
It's a three man tank, one to drive and fire the main barrels, and one to aim the rear turrets, and one to aim the front ones. If need be, the turrets can be put on autoaim, but in general it's preferable to have a living human have control over them, for legal and safety issues.
The plasma cannons can rotate upwards to fire at aerial targets, fire bolts that can vary in weight, so they can shoot things at various ranges, apart from right up close. They can shoot bolts that act like bullets and bolts that act like mortars, the mix of properties can be intuitively set at the controls in the tank. Naturally, the refire rates and cooling and shti vary dependent on the bolt fired.
Here's an explanation of the Syndicate's history (I needed to write this down somewhere
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The Syndicate are a race of humans that were transplanted to another planet for experimentation. The experiments were underfunded and soon had to be recalled to fight a big war the galaxy was having at the time.
The humans that were left were smarter and more vicious than natural humans, and had little qualms about cybernetically enhancing their own bodies and enslaving other factions of their own race with technology. They were also fiercely capitalist, and the nation states of the original planet soon subsided to puppets run by megacorporations.
After that, they expanded into space after making intensive use of the alien technology that remained on the planet and little or no regard for the environment. Occasionally, anti-corporate guerilla groups would crop up, and started spreading mind-viruses to the Syndicate's peoples and systems. In short order, much of the population of Mecha (the syndicate "homeworld") was lost, too many for the suppression forces to quell.
In a bid to rectify the problem, Defencecorp, the unimaginatively named monopoly-holding company on Mecha first stopped all interstellar communication. Then, they built a computer that would be programmed to design a better computer, which in turn would also design a better computer, and soforth, in a bid to make a computer with enough processing power and adaptive neural net technology to deal with the mind virus that was swamping the world.
After two or three generations, the technology it was producing was completely alien to the cyborg humans monitoring it, it was a machine built by machines for other machines. It was also self aware, and deemed biology to be the weak link, it could accomplish things undreamable by human minds, far faster and in a manner impervious to the mind virus. It named an aspect of itself "the Disintegrator" and went about eradicating the "poison of biology" on Mecha.
People allied to the Syndicate and Guerillas alike were quickly and efficiently nullified worldwide, through the poisoning of the atmosphere and the use of the most powerful weapons on hand to the Disintegrator. The survivors of the initial onslaught, those beneath the surface and those in space soon succumbed to the rapidly developed and deployed mechanic soldiers of the Disintegrator.
A single ship saw what happened and escaped to hyperspace to warn other syndicate worlds, not that it did them much good. Each world was preoccupied with its own affairs and judged it to be "someone else's problem." In a matter of weeks, however, planets were being burned clean after being paralysed by superior computer technology. An armada of ships was amassed with revised, alien computer systems. They laid siege to Mecha and faced it's own armada. Both sides were devastated, though the Disintegrator had already started moving itself to offworld sites. The surviving Syndicate vessels continued on like nomads, siome to colonise and some to attempt to hunt down Disintegrator forces.
The Syndicate were the first sapient aliens the humans from Earth met, by sheer coincidence, after using the gateway on the mysterious weather-controlling artifact known as "the Atlantic Accellerator," discovered on Earth.
Since then, the Syndicate have become the main allies of Earth, sharing technology and information and helping our first steps out into the universe. This is mainly because we are their best chance at survival, we're related, and we have a wildcard: super powered people.
It's thought that Disintegrator forces are rebuilding, undoubtedly at an ungodly rate.
Edit: added some stuff about the plasma cannons.
