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- 13:35, 6 October 2022 Operation Tsar Ursa (hist | edit) [1,025 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} '''Operation Tsar Ursa''' was the Eurasian Soviet Red Army codename for the military invasion of the Americas by way of the Arctic Ocean, as part of their prosecution of the Third World War against the Free Market Block. The operation called for achieving dominance of the Arctic Ocean as well as sub-orbital tracks above it (including air superiority), and an invasion through FMB Canada and the former United States of America, in tande...")
- 13:23, 6 October 2022 Project Great Way (hist | edit) [937 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Project Great Way''' was a Red Army combat contingency for a situation in which they intended to break the Christmas Armistice of 2036 and the resultant conflict would not end with the subjugation of Nepal; that is, that the alliance of the South Asian Free States would hold. The contingency involved a conventional conflict, but called for the use of nuclear demolition explosives to clear routes through the Himalayas, allowing mass overland move...")
- 13:15, 6 October 2022 Special Research Force (hist | edit) [788 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Special Research Force''' was a military-industrial intelligence, research, and development agency of the Oceanic Econo-Political Union, with a blended military and civilian staff, operational in the period between 1995 (as the Special Research Force of the Japanese Self Defense Forces) through to 2050 (where, after the organization of the Western Sphere Hegemony, it became known as the Defensive Materials Institute). The Special Re...")
- 13:05, 6 October 2022 Operation Sunrise (hist | edit) [930 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Operation Sunrise''' was a military contingency plan and named military operation concocuted by the Oceanic Econo-Political Union's Special Research Force in coordination with the OUSF, in the wake of the release of the Lorica Standard documents and research materials. The contingency plan presupposed the OEPU becoming entangled in a global conflict between the then-polar superpowers of the Eurasian Soviet and Free Market Block. In th...")
- 23:28, 28 September 2022 Lucas Constellation (hist | edit) [546 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Lucas Constellation''' is the popular name for the network of installations throughout the Alaskan and Canadian north that made up the Anti-Ballistic Weapons System used by the Free Market Block by the time of the Third World War. The system proved vital in preventing Eurasian Soviet missiles from reaching their targets in the First Battle of the Arctic, and with the Photon Curtain system on the other side of the world,...")
- 23:22, 28 September 2022 Photon Curtain (hist | edit) [682 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Photon Curtain''' is the common name for the Eurasian Soviet's Anti-Ballistic Weapons System. While this was actually an elaborate system consisting of a variety of individual technologies, the name calls out its most iconic representation, which consisted of thousands of emplaced and mobile Pravda DEW Turret systems and their support infrastructure. Derided by critics as wasted capital, Photon Curtain proved to be one of the most...")
- 23:18, 28 September 2022 First Battle of the Arctic (hist | edit) [1,193 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''First Battle of the Arctic''' is the usual name for the strategic nuclear weapons exchange between the Free Market Block and Eurasian Soviet at the commencement of the Third World War. Consisting of silo, field, and submarine launched ICBM and IRBM missile salvos in both directions across the pole, the battle marked the closest humanity had ever come, at that point, to destroying itself, with most historical estimates putting the loss of life...")
- 23:13, 28 September 2022 Operation Suihou Fengbaou (hist | edit) [802 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Operation Suihou Fengbaou''' was an act of retaliation by the Eurasian Soviet against the Free Market Block for their part in the Sea of Tranquility Affair. The operation, timed to coincide with the declaration of war which became the opening moments of the Third World War, consisted of the launch of a Changzheng-9 Rocket armed with a Translunar Bus-mounted nuclear warhead, and the subsequent delivery of that warhead to Moonbase Tranqui...")
- 23:05, 28 September 2022 Station Spokoystviye (hist | edit) [4,811 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} Eurasian Soviet '''Station Spokoystviye''' (Russian: "Tranquility") was an indefinite-duration lunar colony in the Sea of Tranquility operated by the space program of the Eurasian Soviet, giving it a quasi-military status. However, in keeping with the wikipedia:Outer Space Treaty, the facility was largely staffed by civilians and was, at least officially, an unarmed facility. Neither the first nor largest project of its kind, Station Spoko...")
- 20:06, 28 September 2022 Christmas Armistice of 2036 (hist | edit) [689 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Christmas Armistice of 2036''' was an agreement negotiated between Nepal, India, and the Eurasian Soviet through the intervention of the African Confederacy to bring an end to the Himalayan Border War. The agreement included a withdrawal of all Red Army personnel to outside the pre-war border and the payment of damages by the South Asian Free States to the Eurasian Soviet. While successful until the onset of the Third World War, the Ar...")
- 20:02, 28 September 2022 Red Army (hist | edit) [466 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The Red Army was the ground component of the armed forces of the Eurasian Soviet from its inception through the end of World War III. The Red Army favoured numerical superiority tactics and rather famously "made do with less" with regard to equipment. That being said, while early models had their drawbacks, Ursa Ruska vehicles during the Third World War were considered to be more or less at parity with Lorica vehicles in similar roles.")
- 19:58, 28 September 2022 Himalayan Border War (hist | edit) [690 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Himalayan Border War''' was a conflict fought between the Eurasian Soviet and several of the South Asian Free States in November and December of 2036. The war began with border skirmishes between Nepal and the Eurasian Soviet after Nepalese support for the Returning Government rebel group. In spite of a negotiated peace in the form of the Christmas Armistice of 2036, the conflict remained a sore point in both the South As...")
- 19:54, 28 September 2022 Returning Government (hist | edit) [689 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The Returning Governement is the common name given to an organization that appeared in the Tibetan Autonomous Region in 2036 following the death of the 15th Dalai Lama, claiming to be the secular continuation of his government in exile. The appearance of the Returning Government is responsible for the Himalayan Border War and is considered to be the final-act of tension-building before the start of the Third World War. The organizers of the government...")
- 19:47, 28 September 2022 Berlin Agreement (hist | edit) [817 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Berlin Agreement on the Status of Germany''' is a 2036 agreement negotiated by the Oceanic Econo-Political Union between the Eurasian Soviet and the United States of Western Europe which was considered, for a time, to have prevented the outbreak of the Third World War. The agreement concerned the status of a now-unified Germany, and stimulated that it remain a demilitarized zone, independant of either the United States of Western Europe o...")
- 18:19, 28 September 2022 North African Wars (hist | edit) [8,350 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} {{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''North African Wars''' refer to a conflict fought between February 18, 2035, and September 29, 2035 over the territories of Algeria, Morocco, and Nigeria in Africa between the invading United States of Western Europe and the African Confederation. Contemporary reporting framed the invasion as a counter-terrorist police action, alleging that recent terror attacks in Madrid had been caused by a terror cell in the African Confede...")
- 17:45, 28 September 2022 OUDF 1st Lorica Regiment (hist | edit) [592 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''OUDF 1st Lorica Regiment''' has the distinction of being the world's first publicly-acknowledged Humanoid Robotics combat organization and the first unit formed in any military to deploy vehicles patterned after the Lorica standards. The unit was organized and acknowledged in 2029 and first fielded the Durandal Arsenal Julius, and would go on to serve with distinction in the North African Wars and the Third World War. == Known Ve...")
- 17:39, 28 September 2022 Brazillian Civil War (hist | edit) [647 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The Brazillian Civil War was a brief conflict between late 2034 and early 2035 caused by foreign intervention in the internal politics of Brazil, resulting in the outbreak of war between three factions - a grassroots isolationist faction, a hard-left faction backed by the Eurasian Soviet, and a hard-right faction backed by the Free Market Block. By the end of the war, the isolationist faction had won, but the company was in such economic straights that...")
- 17:35, 28 September 2022 Project Clarity (hist | edit) [7,347 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Project Clarity''' was an outlaw Non-Governmental Organization with a public mandate to attempt to prevent the resurgence of global-scale conflicts and limit the exercise of military force; aims they hoped to achieve through "denial of military secrets". With the motto "Rot Dies In The Light", Project Clarity was, at various times in its history, a charitable organization, terror threat group, diplomatic interest group, and paramilitary itself. Project Clarit...")
- 17:04, 28 September 2022 Black Desert (hist | edit) [814 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Black Desert''' is the common nickname for the regions evacuated following the Pripyat Incident, which included most of the former Ukraine SSR, portions of Belarus, and portions of Russia. The area had a high degree of radioactive contamination and was considered uninhabitable, especially in the most dangerous regions, the Pripyat Exclusion Zone and Dnieper Hot Zone. While not economically useful beyond salvage and reclamation operations, th...")
- 16:58, 28 September 2022 2021 Black Desert Conflict (hist | edit) [6,352 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''2021 Black Desert Conflict''', sometimes called the Black Sands Conflict, was a three-day period of armed conflict between September 17 and September 20, 2021, in the Black Desert and Dnieper Hot Zone between OEPU-backed Serif Specialty Robotics and Eurasian Soviet-backed Zaftra Free Enterprise, noted by most to be the birth of the age of piloted robotics in warfare. The conflict was ostensibly over control of the Pripyat Exclu...")
- 13:57, 28 September 2022 Lorica Prima (hist | edit) [14,383 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Lorica Prima''' was the common code-name designation for a series of prototype Lorica-standard robotics modules developed as a joint enterprise of several Oceanic Econo-Polotical Union robotics companies under the auspices of the then-secret Project Lorica, and as such are some of the world's earliest examples of humanoid fighting robots in the relevant weight class. While individual modules sufficient to assemble a dozen complete vehicles were produced, o...")
- 14:58, 26 September 2022 Zaftra Free Enterprise (hist | edit) [562 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Zaftra Free Enterprise''' was a Private Military Corporation established under the limited corporate independance laws of the Eurasian Soviet in 2020s. While ostensibly a public non-profit organization, in practice, Zaftra was a fairly transparent Red Army proxy within the Black Desert, which was nominally unincorporated territory. Zaftra security forces caused the 2021 Black Desert Conflict by attempting to exert territorial authority over the Dniep...")
- 14:45, 26 September 2022 Serif Specialty Robotics (hist | edit) [1,066 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Serif Specialty Robotics''' was a Non-Governmental Organization established as a non-profit corporation in the Oceanic Econo-Political Union Phillipines with a mandate to develop and use one-off robotics solutions for SAR and remediation efforts in the Black Desert and Dneipr Hot Zone. In reality, the corporation was simply a front for operations of the Special Research Force's Combat Experiments Team. Serif was one of many OEPU corporations a...")
- 13:57, 26 September 2022 Republic of England, Scotland, and Wales (hist | edit) [958 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} The '''Republic of England, Scotland, and Wales''' was one of the states of the United States of Western Europe, formed in 1991 in response to the collapse of the House of Windsor following the controversies surrounding the death of Diana Spencer, and public backlash surrounding the involvement of her husband, Charles Windsor, Prince of Wales. Elizabeth's unilateral move to disinherit Charles and his sons from the Crown of the United Kingdom caused a consti...")
- 12:26, 26 September 2022 Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law (hist | edit) [879 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law''' is the judicial branch of the Western Sphere Hegemony which concerns itself with enforcing international agreements on the use of military force, up to and including the prevention of warfare between Western Sphere Hegemony states and the prosecution of wars between individual member-states and external nations without due process through Western Sphere Hegemony joint diplomatic efforts. Crea...")
- 12:15, 26 September 2022 Treaty of Cairo (hist | edit) [741 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Treaty of Cairo''' is the common name for the ''Treaty on the Responsibilities of States in the De-Escalation of Nuclear Brinksmanship'', a 2037 agreement signed between the supranational organizations of Earth in the months immediately before the Third World War. It is arguably the most ignored treaty in history, as the third world war began in October of the same year with unilateral nuclear weapon strikes - Operation Suihou Fengbaou and the ...")
- 01:59, 26 September 2022 Adis Ababa Declaration (hist | edit) [714 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Adis Ababa Declaration''' was a statement issued on March 7, 2035 by the government of the African Confederation, responding to the encirclement of USWEAF forces near Adis Ababa. When threatened with Nuclear Retaliation if the forces were not immediately released, the AC government declared that any nation whose force deployed nuclear weapons in any theater would be subject to total trade sanctions with the African Confederation. The Adis Ababa...")
- 01:36, 26 September 2022 Brazil Affair (hist | edit) [952 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''2034 Brazil Affair''', also known as the 2034 Brazillian Civil War, was an incident in the prelude to the Third World War. The independent nation of Brazil, at the time affiliated with neither the Free Market Block nor the Eurasian Soviet, experienced a period of organic political arrest beginning with their presidential elections in October of that year, when a populist candidate for the presidency was defeated in the voting, and their supp...")
- 01:33, 26 September 2022 Antiballistic Weapons Systems (hist | edit) [1,533 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Antiballistic Weapons Systems''' are a standard class of automated weapon system employed by various nations from the 21st Century onward. Designed in the wake of the Cold War, ABWs had the explicit purpose of undermining the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction in strategic nuclear warfare and shift the balance of power in the direction of defensive advantage. During the Third World War and even the years leading up to it, ABWs played a key role in human...")
- 01:24, 26 September 2022 Defense Research Institute (hist | edit) [966 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Defense Research Institute''' was a para-private organization of the Free Market Block which served as the special research division of the Block's defense-industrial complex, in a role similar to OEPU Special Research Force. In addition to completing projects related to the adoption of Lorica standards within the FMB armed forces, and a significant amount of cooperation with the CASA, the DRI is perhaps most infamous for Project Dr...")
- 01:19, 26 September 2022 Ursa Ruska (hist | edit) [803 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Ursa Ruska''' was a Eurasian Soviet-designed standard for robotic fighting vehicles, similar to the Lorica standard, which eventually supplanted it. Unlike the highly flexible Lorica designs, Ursa Ruska was centralized around turret-body-and-legs design, utilizing a primary chassis with a variable-geometry motive unit capable of quadripedal or tracked motion, and an upper turret which contained the primary payload. The body itself did have human...")
- 01:13, 26 September 2022 Humanoid Robotics Renaissance (hist | edit) [1,185 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Humanoid Robotics Renaissance''' is the common parlance name for a phenomenon in the multidisciplinary field of robotics, which lasted from roughly 1986 to 2010, though it would not be fair to say advancement in the field ended in the 2010s, given the success of further robotics developments such as those seen in Project Lorica. In the wake of the Pripyat Incident, government agencies and their supporting industries considered increasing the...")
- 01:06, 26 September 2022 Robotics (hist | edit) [913 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Following the Pripyat Incident, robotics became arguably the focal technology of human development, due to the need for enhanced robotic workforces for use in the Black Desert and other crisis zones. This period, known as the Human...")
- 01:01, 26 September 2022 South Asian Free States (hist | edit) [1,710 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''South Asian Free States''' is the post-war common name for the several nations in South Asia and the Middle East which were members of the Indian Ocean Mutual Defense Pact, a treaty organization in the 21st century which provided a mutual defense treaty amongst the member states in the event any one of them should be attacked by others. With the invasion of Nepal by the Eurasian Soviet in 2036, creating a state of war which placed the South Asian Free...")
- 00:51, 26 September 2022 United States of Western Europe (hist | edit) [2,175 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''United States of Western Europe''' was a supranational organization, and later unified polity, formed by the members of the former European Community in the wake of the political upheavals caused by immigration following the Pripyat Incident and the reorganization of the USSR and Communist China into the Eurasian Soviet. Considered a parity power to similar organizations like the African Confederation, Oceanic Econo-Political Union, and South Asi...")
- 00:34, 26 September 2022 Pripyat Incident (hist | edit) [1,633 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Pripyat Incident''' is the common name for a radiological disaster that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine SSR, on April 26, 1986. The Pripyat Incident is considered the greatest nuclear disaster of all time, and is directly responsible for the creation of the Black Desert, indirectly causing the formation of the Eurasian Soviet, inspiring the Humanoid Robotics Renaissance, and, indirectly, contributing to the condition...")
- 00:21, 26 September 2022 20th Century (hist | edit) [104 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} The 20th Century are the years 1900 through 1999 of the Common Era. Category:20th Century")
- 00:19, 26 September 2022 Treaty of Beijing (hist | edit) [3,019 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Treaty of Beijing''', more formally titled as the '''Treaty of Surrender of the Eurasian Soviet Powers to the Anti-Authoritarism Treaty Organization''', is a July 5, 2041 document signed in the city of Beijing that formalized the surrender of "surviving" members of the Eurasian Soviet government to the Anti-Authoritarianism Treaty Organization at the close of the Third World War. The signing of the treaty and its entrance into force at noon o...")
- 00:00, 26 September 2022 Duel Over Moscow (hist | edit) [377 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "===Disambiguation=== The title '''Duel Over Moscow''' is ambiguous. Do you mean: * Duel Over Moscow (Battle), referring to the Third World War military engagement in which United States of Western Europe Lorica pilots defeated the Russian faction of the Eurasian Soviet? * Duel Over Moscow (Artwork), a dramatized painting inspired by the above battle?")
- 23:57, 25 September 2022 African Confederation (hist | edit) [1,509 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''African Confederation''' was an independent supranational organization and key geopolitical power in the 21st Century, having reached its greatest geographic extent with the accession of South Africa into the union in 1991. Though originally created as a standards organization and a form of unified front against foreign interventionism in the African continent, by 2015 the African Confederation had effectively became the first of the Supranational blocks to become...")
- 23:45, 25 September 2022 Sea of Tranquility Affair (hist | edit) [6,161 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Commonly cited as the start of the Third World War due to it being the first event in open hostilities between the Free Market Block and the Eurasian Soviet, the '''Sea of Tranquility''' affair began on October 1, 2037, with the destruction of Station Spokoystviye, the soviet lunar base, by FMB Saboteurs. In retaliation, together with press activity denouncing the attack by Washington, Beijing timed their declaration of war against the Free Market Block w...")
- 23:11, 25 September 2022 Western Sphere Hegemony (hist | edit) [1,617 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Western Sphere Hegemony''' is the successor organization to the Anti-Authoritarian Treaty Organization and the supranational organization that ultimately supplanted those of the Oceanic Econo-Political Union, African Confederation, South Asian Free States, United States of Western Europe, and the Free Market Block from 2050 after the AATO member organizations signed the Baghdad Agreement. Most historians agree that the Western...")
- 22:58, 25 September 2022 Assembly of Independent Eurasian States (hist | edit) [566 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Assembly of Independant Eurasian States''' was a short-lived supranational organization formed after the collapse of the Eurasian Soviet following the Third World War, coming about as the post-war occupation governments loosened their control, and the resulting independent nations sought solidarity outside of the Western Sphere Hegemony. Eventually, during the interwar period leading up to the Martian Conflict[[, the AIES would formally joi...")
- 22:49, 25 September 2022 21st Century (hist | edit) [131 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The 21st century is the period of time consisting of the years 2000-2099 of the Current Era. Category: 21st Century")
- 16:41, 23 September 2022 Third World War (hist | edit) [30,091 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Third World War''' or '''World War III''' was a state of global war that lasted (officially) between 2037 and 2041 that was fought between the overwhelming majority of the world's countries. Primarily, the war was fought by two main factions, with the Eurasian Soviet instigating a conflict with the Free Market Block and the earth's other great powers rallying around one faction or the other. In some parts of the world becoming a state of total war, World W...")
- 10:13, 22 September 2022 Free Market Block (hist | edit) [2,630 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Free Market Block''' was one of two major polar power factions on Earth during the 21st Century, with the other being the Eurasian Soviet, and each created by its member-states to counter-balance the power of the other. Initially created in 1992 as a supranational union of the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico, during the period leading up to the Third World War the block eventually conquered the entirety of the Americas, through a series of...")
- 09:58, 22 September 2022 Eurasian Soviet (hist | edit) [2,041 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Eurasian Soviet''' was one of the two major polar powers in the 21st Century, a counterpart to the Free Market Block, and (depending on your definitions) a major nation or supranational organzation formed by the joint treaty of the Continental Asian Soviet (itself consisting of China, a conquered Tibet, the People's Republic of Mongolia, and the DPRK) and the Union of Socialist States of Russia, in 1991 following the Pripyat Event and the subsequent ec...")
- 08:34, 22 September 2022 Project Lorica (hist | edit) [8,588 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Project Lorica''' was the name of the classified military research programme of the Oceanic Econo-Political Union's Special Research Force that resulted in the creation of the Lorica platform as a conceptual framework and international standard. Active from 2014 to 2029 and spawning sub-programs that lasted through the accession of the OEPU into the Western Sphere Hegemony at the conclusion of the Third World War, the program is perhaps the single...")
- 23:24, 21 September 2022 Oceanic Econo-Political Union (hist | edit) [2,269 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Oceanic Econo-Political Union''' is a current faction of the Terran Hegemony, and a pre-World War Three supranational federation consisting of several Pacific Ocean polities including those of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Polynesia, Java, the Phillipines, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, the Korean Penninsula, and so on. As a realpolitikal and economic power, the OEPU were a major influence on the pre-war world, established in part to counter the increas...")
- 19:22, 21 September 2022 Lorica (hist | edit) [16,384 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Lorica''' are the common name for a class of (usually) military armoured vehicle, typified around standards originally developed during Project Lorica, a Special Research Forces project of the Oceanic Econo-Political Union. The standard specifies a universalized cockpit design along with special "joint" interfaces, providing for a vehicle usually consisting of discreet units best described as a "torso", unitized "legs" unit, and two or more "arms". The co...")