TS-SG-50C Skull Gunner

Model number: TS-SG-50C
Code name: Skull Gunner
Unit type: unmanned terror striker super powered tracer
Manufacturer: Gradosian Empire
Operator: Gradosian Empire
Rollout: unknown
First deployment: unknown
Accommodation: none
Dimensions: overall height 9.76 meters
Weight: max gross 14.52 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown; thickness 125mm
Powerplant: fuel cell; engine output 198 PU
Propulsion: 18,200 kg; attitude control verniers: 4
Performance: maximum thruster acceleration 1.25 G
Equipment and design features: sensors, sensitivity -51.6 dB
Fixed armaments: anti-personnel laser, mounted in head; 2 x lasered gun, mounted on forearms
Optional hand armaments: none

The TS-SG-50C Skull Gunner was an unmanned “terror striker” developed by the Gradosian Empire. The Skull Gunner’s head featured sensors and an anti-personnel laser in place of a manned cockpit. Thanks to the lack of a human pilot, the Skull Gunner was capable of advanced maneuvers beyond the range of a normal super powered tracer. Its main armament was a pair of forearm-mounted lasered guns. The Skull Gunner’s durable construction allowed it to continue to function even when its head had been decapitated. Extreme sensitivity to sound aided the Skull Gunner in its anti-personnel mission. In October 1996, Grados deployed Skull Gunners to the Moon in advance of their Earth invasion. In a short time, the Skull Gunners killed nearly all of the Moon’s 30,000 inhabitants. By 1999, Grados had deployed an Earth-based policing variant, the TS-TP-50D Terminator Police.

First appearance: Blue Comet SPT Layzner
Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara

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Rear view