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- 19:17, 28 November 2022 Multipedal MU (hist | edit) [1,460 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} Multipedal Mobility Units are a part of the Lorica Standards as pertain to design profiles for Mobility Units for Lorica-compatible vehicles. While not nearly as common in military service as Bipedal MUs, multipedal MUs remain popular in certain specialist model designs (such as the Thoth, a well-known line of hexapods) as well as in some civilian applications. Multipedal MU designs share a close relationship with the more common Bipedal MUs, but a...")
- 19:11, 28 November 2022 Bipedal MU (hist | edit) [1,175 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Bipedal MU''' is a category of Lorica Mobility Unit provided for under the Lorica Standards, and is the most common format of mobility unit out of those defined in the standard, at least of all models in active military use. The standard specifies that a Bipedal Mobility Unit consists of: * Precisely two articulated legs terminating in "feet" which are used as contact surfaces for the ground, * which need not be humanoid, and; * which are joined together by m...")
- 19:04, 28 November 2022 Pilot Ejector System (hist | edit) [584 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} The '''Pilot Ejector System''' is a required crew survivability system installed on all Lorica designs, which much provide for a method of reasonably-survivable pilot egress from a Lorica vehicle which is underway and has entered a state of mechanical distress. Usually this takes the form of an ejector seat which deploys a curtain of explosively-deployed and spalling-resistant airbags, impact-rated to survive the ejector seat's own collision. They are...")
- 19:02, 28 November 2022 Three Spheres Treaty (hist | edit) [240 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Three Spheres Treaty''' was a shortlived post-war document that bound the Independent States of Eurasia, Western Sphere Hegemony, and the Martian Soviet together in technological standards cooperation.")
- 19:00, 28 November 2022 Non-Governmental Organizations (hist | edit) [27 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to wikipedia:NGO) Tag: New redirect
- 18:59, 28 November 2022 Nassaar bin Abdur Raheem (hist | edit) [460 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} '''Nassar bin Abdur Raheem''' was a Malaysian member of the Combat Experiments Team and the pilot of Lorica Prima X-03 "Hive". He's broadly considered as the "grandfather of the Battery Type", and his feedback on Hive's design is credited for making the class managable for a single pilot operating a Lorica. He served with distinction during the Third World War and retired from both civilian and military piloting after the war.")
- 18:57, 28 November 2022 Battery Type (hist | edit) [1,959 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Battery Type''' is one of several unofficial types or classes into which Lorica models are occasionally sorted, according to their capabilities and battlefield role, similar to the related term Assault Type. The type was postulated by the pilot of Lorica Prima '''X-03 Hive''', Nassaar bin Abdur Raheem, and the overall premise picked up and specialized on by a number of companies specializing in the design and manufacture of such vehicles....")
- 18:44, 28 November 2022 NGO (hist | edit) [43 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Non-Governmental Organization) Tag: New redirect
- 18:44, 28 November 2022 Solar Lorica Working Group (hist | edit) [175 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The Solar Lorica Working Group is a post-Third World War NGO with responsibility for maintaining the Lorica standards, and developing extensions to them.")
- 18:39, 28 November 2022 Type 26 (hist | edit) [2,069 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Java Heavy Metals Type 26 was a mass-produced Lorica model used extensively by OEPU "continental" units and client militaries in the South Asian Free States extensively in the early portions of the Third World War. Affectionately nicknamed the "Gunbird" by crews, its distinctive design remained a general rule of thumb for JHM-designed vehicles, in spite of JHM not following the usual convention of maintaining a product line from model to model. T...")
- 18:26, 28 November 2022 Shield (hist | edit) [794 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} In the context of Lorica equipment, a '''shield''' is a piece of equipable additional armour, usually mounted to either a handheld item hardpoint, specialty additional handpoints on the "wrist" of the manipulator unit of the vehicle in question, or, rarely, over a shoulder hardpoint in similar fashion. When combined with the appropriate piloting technique and vehicle coroutines, such a shield can be used in like fashion to its infantry namesake, as additio...")
- 18:23, 28 November 2022 Pirate (hist | edit) [457 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Lorica Piracy''' is a phenomenon largely seen only after the conclusion of the Third World War, in which veteran Lorica pilots and ground crews formed private organizations of varying shades of legality acting as mercenaries. While broadly considered to be entirely illegal, especially after the Colonization of the Inner System throughout the end of the 21st Century, it's become all but impossible to fully stamp out the practice.")
- 18:21, 28 November 2022 Non-Governmental Organization (hist | edit) [53 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to wikipedia:Non-Governmental Organization) Tag: New redirect
- 18:20, 28 November 2022 Moonbase Tranquility (hist | edit) [729 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Moonbase Tranquility''' was a CASA-operated lunar colony of the Free Market Bloc in the Sea of Tranquility. It is most famous for its disputed role in the Sea of Tranquility Affair, during which it is alleged that CASA astronauts operating from the facility engaged in sabotage or outright hostilities against their counterpart Eurasian Soviet lunar base, Station Spokoystviye. The base was destroyed on October 2, 2037, in a nuclear str...")
- 18:15, 28 November 2022 KGB (hist | edit) [28 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to wikipedia:KGB) Tag: New redirect
- 18:15, 28 November 2022 2021 Black Sands Conflict (hist | edit) [40 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to 2021 Black Desert Conflict) Tag: New redirect
- 18:14, 28 November 2022 Juan Luiz Ramos (hist | edit) [660 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Juan Luiz Ramos''' was a citizen of OEPU Phillipines in the 20th Century and early 21st Century, and one-time director of the Special Research Force. Described by colleagues as an "engineer second in brilliance only to his own capability as an administrator", he oversaw Project Lorica and the development of the Lorica Prima in the years leading up to the Third World War. Unfortunately, though he lived to see the outbreak of the wa...")
- 18:10, 28 November 2022 Java Heavy Metals (hist | edit) [538 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete WIP}} '''Java Heavy Metals''' was an industrial equipment manufacturer in OEPU Indonesia. By the time of the Humanoid Robotics Renaissance, they had become a producer of hazardous environment robotics, and as a result were one of the companies involved in the production of the Project Lorica testbed designs, Lorica Prima, for which they contributed the main mobility unit designs. As a Lorica manufacturer, they specialize in low-cost, lo...")
- 18:07, 28 November 2022 Dingo (hist | edit) [674 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Dingo''' was a short lived, single-issue model line of Lorica fighting vehicles developed and produced by Durandal Arsenal of OEPU Australia. It was a successor to an unreleased design that D.A. originally proposed (unsuccessfully) as Lorica Prima during the development of the vehicle standard, Project Lorica. Diego's main redeming quality was its inexpensive cost of manutacture. However, it was never mass-produced; initially, the OUDF was inte...")
- 18:04, 28 November 2022 Army of the Republic (hist | edit) [413 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Army of the Republic''' was the land-based military arm of United States of Western Europe France, which became a major fighting force during the years leading up to, and throughout, the Third World War. It was ultimately relegated to being a levee within the Arbitration Joint Fleet and fully assimilated into that organization after the formation of the Western Sphere Hegemony.")
- 18:02, 28 November 2022 Anti-Ballistic Weapons System (hist | edit) [43 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Antiballistic Weapons Systems) Tag: New redirect
- 18:01, 28 November 2022 African Confederate Armed Forces (hist | edit) [875 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''African Confederate Armed Forces''' were the military of the African Confederation, established by 2015 in response to the increasing polarization of the global climate, to help safeguard the African Confederation's territories against both the Free Market Bloc and the Eurasian Soviet, at which it was ultimately successful. Owing to the alliance between the Oceanic Econo-Political Union and the African Confederation, the ACAF became one...")
- 17:57, 28 November 2022 Kenichi Yokota (hist | edit) [455 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Kenichi Yokota''' was a member of the Combat Experiments Team and the OUDF who is best known for his role in the Lorica Prima program, in which he was the pilot of '''X-04 Defender'''. After the 2021 Black Sands Conflict, he went on to join the reorganized CET, and participated in the Third World War as a result. Kenichi was killed as a mutineer during the Sack of Beijing, an incident which he helped to instigate.")
- 15:55, 28 November 2022 Interceptor Type (hist | edit) [2,519 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Interceptor Type''' is one of the several types of the unofficial "type convention", a paradigm used for grouping various models of Lorica into different classes based on their primary battlefield roles. In that sense, the interceptor is best described by comparison to the Assault Type. While an Assault type makes for a fairly general-purpose fighting vehicle, the Interceptor Type is best thought of as having the following characteristics: * Desi...")
- 15:38, 28 November 2022 Lupus (hist | edit) [4,467 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Lupus''' was the first-to-market product offering of Shoshin Heavy Industries in terms of commerically-produced Lorica models, and the first design introduced by any on the Project Lorica design participants that wasn't based on any of their engineering proposals for Lorica Prima. Shoshin, out of OEPU Japan, earned its reputation for superlative and innovative Lorica design almost entirely off the back of the combat record and capabilities of t...")
- 14:56, 28 November 2022 Senshi Subarashi (hist | edit) [887 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Senshi Subarashi''' was one of several Shoshin Heavy Industry first-generation Lorica models, designed heavily off of their contributions to the Lorica Prima test models. In spite of its name, "Wonderful Soldier", the model never actually saw wartime use. After a complete readout of all technical data related to the project was published by renegade employee and Project Clarity operative Junichi Satoyama, company leadership cancelled the...")
- 14:49, 28 November 2022 Junichi Satoyama (hist | edit) [1,294 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Junichi Satoyama''' (Westernized Naming Order - Satoyama is the family name) was a software engineer working for Shoshin Heavy Industries in the early 20th Century, specifically on the production of their Senshi Subarashi product family, one of the company's proposals for Project Lorica. In 2034, motivated by his sense of justice, disgruntled by his employers at SHI, and with both the help of and compensation from Project Clarity operativ...")
- 14:42, 28 November 2022 Assault Type (hist | edit) [2,000 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Assault Type''' is one of the several types in the unofficial "type convention", an archetyping paradigm for describing the intended combat role of various designs of Lorica fighting vehicles. Unlike the much more iconic description "Ace Type", assault type describes a relatively narrow combat role, not horrifyingly different from that of a general infantryman; ironically, this makes it the most open-to-interpretation of all the combat types other th...")
- 14:32, 28 November 2022 Diego (hist | edit) [3,314 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Diego''' is a product family of Lorica produced by Durandal Arsenal out of OEPU Australia, as a direct inheritor to design concepts of the Lorica Prima design candidates they had proposed. Initially concieved of as a dedicated Assault Type, with a more maintainable and manufacturable design than its precursor model, the Julius, which had been introduced first. Thanks in part to the AATO victory in the war, the Diego model became wildly succ...")
- 14:15, 28 November 2022 Julius (hist | edit) [3,148 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Julius''' is a product family of Lorica produced by Durandal Arsenal out of OEPU Australia, as a direct inheritor to design concepts of the Lorica Prima design candidates they had proposed. Initially conceived of as a dedicated Assault Type, its manufacturing constraints during the Third World War eventually saw it relegated to Ace Type status and replaced with the much more easily produced Diego. The model was considered extremely succ...")
- 19:39, 26 November 2022 Durandal Arsenal (hist | edit) [691 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete WIP}} '''Durandal Arsenal''' was a crown corporation of OEPU Australia in the 20th and 21st Centuries, and a critical player in Project Lorica. Prior to their involvement in the project, Durandal Arsenal was already the primary Australian state weapons manufacturer, with a profitable sideline in precision industrial equipment through their subsidiary, Durandal Robotics. After being accepted into the Lorica Prima project as the designers of the p...")
- 19:32, 26 November 2022 CASA (hist | edit) [384 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} The '''Canadian Aerospace Sciences Agency''', or CASA, was a Free Market Block economic entity with the backing of the government of Canada, serving as a national space agency. It is best known for being the constructors and operators of CASA Moonbase Tranquility, the destruction of which during Sea of Tranquility Affair, precipitating the Third World War.")
- 19:27, 26 November 2022 Baghdad Agreement (hist | edit) [1,289 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''International Agreement on the Formation of the Human Sphere Authority''', also known as the '''Baghdad Agreement of 2050''', was an international post-war agreement signed in Baghdad, South Asian Free States Iraq, in 2050 CE, a short time after the conclusion of the Third World War. Originally entered into by the former AATO powers, the agreement eventually expanded to include all inhabited areas on earth. The agreement included provisions that estab...")
- 19:20, 26 November 2022 AATO (hist | edit) [55 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Anti-Authoritarianism Treaty Organization) Tag: New redirect
- 19:20, 26 November 2022 Shoshin Heavy Industries (hist | edit) [1,259 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{stub}} '''Shoshin Heavy Industries''' was a private manufacturing corporation in the Zanmai Kakushin Group, a conglomerate of industrial concerns operating in OEPU Japan throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries. Originally a producer of heavy machinery and industrial robotics, during Project Lorica, Shoshin became involved in the manifacture of Lorica-pattern armoured fighting vehicles, a product line for which they are currently the most well-known. Of...")
- 13:07, 9 November 2022 Combat Experiments Team (hist | edit) [1,052 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Combat Experiments Team''' was a special military cadre that was simultaneously a part of the command hierarchy of the OUDF and the organizational structure of the Special Research Force of the Oceanic Econo-Political Union, headquartered in Sasebo, Japan. It was made up primarily of a large number of ace Lorica pilots and their support staff, especially the Lorica Prima pilots. While not nominally a combat unit, the outbreak of the [...")
- 12:54, 9 November 2022 Arbitration Joint Fleet (hist | edit) [1,032 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete WIP}} The '''Arbitration Joint Fleet''' was the colloquial name for the ''Combined Allied Military Interdiction Levee'' as well as the formal name of its principal navel (and later, astrological) unit; in effect, the armed forces of the Western Sphere Hegemony, which was founded by the provisions of the Baghdad Agreement of 2050. The greater Arbitration Joint Fleet was made up of armed levees from the various member-nations of the Western Sphere Heg...")
- 12:49, 9 November 2022 Project Opus (hist | edit) [1,606 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Project Opus''' was a wartime research project undertaken by the Free Market Block's Defense Research Initiative. The project's focus was the creation of a standard for wetware interfaces between Lorica combat vehicles and their human pilots, which ultimately became the Lorica-N Cockpit Standard. The project was kept secret during the war and only disclosed during the post-war Cairo Trials, and the revelation caused...")
- 14:25, 7 November 2022 Martian Conflict (hist | edit) [293 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete WIP}} The '''Martian Conflict''' was a major military and economic conflict in the 22nd Century between the Terran Hegemony and the Martian Soviet, broadly considered to be the first human war in outer space.")
- 14:23, 7 November 2022 22nd Century (hist | edit) [83 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''22nd Century''' is the period including the years 2100 to 2199 CE.")
- 14:22, 7 November 2022 Martian Soviet (hist | edit) [1,332 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Martian Soviet''' was the colloquial name for the '''Union of Socialist Republics of the Terran Solar System''', a successor power to the Eurasian Soviet that was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Third World War by the Big 20 and other Eurasian Soviet loyalists who fled to or already were in space by the end of the conflict, along with later immigrants, refugees, and even colonists. In spite of both names, the Martian Sovi...")
- 14:11, 7 November 2022 Adjudication Joint Fleet (hist | edit) [524 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Incomplete_WIP}} The '''Adjudication Joint Fleet''' was the principle military instrument of the Western Sphere Hegemony, and later the Terran Hegemony, made up of levees from the member state armed forces, which was tasked with active peacekeeping and adjudication of conflict between member states and external powers. In this role, the AJF spent a period of relative peace and lack of notoriety; however, come the time of the Martian Conflict they were effe...")
- 14:08, 7 November 2022 Jessop Vale (hist | edit) [613 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''Jessop Robert Vale''' (1985-2046) was a Free Market Block Canadian chemical engineer and head of the Defense Research Institute of the Free Market Block during the period leading up to, and including, the Third World War. In his capacity of head of the DRI, he was the initiating manager and principle director of Project Opus, and committed suicide in the courtroom rather than be sentenced to prison under the Cairo Trials. In a sense,...")
- 13:27, 26 October 2022 Ghost Company (hist | edit) [1,011 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Ghost Company''' is the popular name given to a unit of seven Lorica-N Cockpit pilots from the Free Market Block who were heavily modified under Project Opus. Surviving both the project and their campaign during the Third World War, the Ghost Company remained a state secret until the Cairo Trials, where they became something of a cause celebre. The Ghost Company is now best known as a pirate NGO, possibly affiliated with...")
- 13:18, 26 October 2022 Lorica-N Cockpit (hist | edit) [2,506 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Lorica-N Cockpit''' standard is an existing standard governing the use of neurological interfaces between Lorica pilots and the vehicle control system, adopted by the Solar Lorica Working Group and its precursor organizations into the Lorica standard following the revelation of Project Opus. The standard solved two issues facing the Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law at the time of its first creation: * Creating a clear definit...")
- 13:07, 26 October 2022 Defense Research Initiative (hist | edit) [1,442 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''Defense Research Initiative (DRI)''' of the Free Market Block was a blended public/private organization in the military-industrial complex of the Free Market Block, from its inception in 1993 through to its dissolution following the Cairo Trials. In practice, it could best be thought of as an analogue to the OEPU Special Research Force, in the sense of being an organization for military research and development. The DRI is best known for its own [...")
- 13:00, 26 October 2022 Sydney Facility (hist | edit) [506 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The '''Sydney Facility''' was the common name referring to '''AATO Military Stockade Blackheath''', later known as '''WSH Special Prison Blackheath'''. The prison operated from the close of the Third World War to roughly the end of the 21st Century as a prison for convicts of the Cairo Trials. After convicts from the trials had all passed away, the prison was briefly decommissioned, but became the core of the Terran Hegemony Southern Hemisphere He...")
- 12:57, 26 October 2022 Cairo Trials (hist | edit) [1,645 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} The Cairo Trials were a series of AATO, and later, Western Sphere Hegemony-led war crimes trials for events leading up to and including the Third World War. Arranged as part of the process of including the Free Market Block in the negotiations for the Baghdad Agreement, which would stipulate that the FMB comply with what became the Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law and submit to an investigation into accusations of war crimes...")
- 12:47, 26 October 2022 Sea of Tranquility Incident (hist | edit) [39 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Redirected page to Sea of Tranquility Affair) Tag: New redirect
- 12:46, 26 October 2022 London Facility (hist | edit) [550 bytes] Zadammac (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Stub}} '''AATO Military Stockade Chelmsford''', later renamed to '''WSH Special Military Prison Facility Chelmsford''' and better known in the public eye as the '''London Facility''', was a special integrated-security prison facility constructed by the Anti-Authoritarianism Treaty Organization in the years immediately after the Third World War for housing war criminals convicted under the Madagascar Trials. The prison was kept operational until the last in...")