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| - The Avatar was an eleven-meter tall bipedal assault walker. Its legs were reverse-articulated in a design adapted from Clone Wars-era and Imperial walkers. Like the much smaller AT-ST, its torso could swivel independently and elevate/depress from the legs. However, unlike Imperial designs, the Avatar also incorporated actuators in the arms, allowing them to traverse, elevate, and depress in limited fashion to bring the laser cannon and arm-mounted vibroblades to bear.
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| - The Avatar was an eleven-meter tall bipedal assault walker. Its legs were reverse-articulated in a design adapted from Clone Wars-era and Imperial walkers. Like the much smaller AT-ST, its torso could swivel independently and elevate/depress from the legs. However, unlike Imperial designs, the Avatar also incorporated actuators in the arms, allowing them to traverse, elevate, and depress in limited fashion to bring the laser cannon and arm-mounted vibroblades to bear. At the heart of the design was a powerful reactor core borrowed from a high-powered starfighter and adapted to a richer fuel blend. To encase such a powerful power supply, the reactor was heavily shielded. The laminamium skeleton of the Avatar's torso was built around the reactor to protect it from damage, as a catastrophic overload could result if the shielding was breached. This became the self-destruct method of choice for the Avatar, as the explosion would utterly obliterate any sensitive components. Heavily-insulated power supply cables fed power from the reactor to the actuators, motivators, gyros, weapons, shields, sensors, life support, and other systems. The power supply and durable skeleton allowed the Avatar to move far faster than contemporary walkers, at the price of being far more difficult to pilot. For armament, the Avatar had a rapid-firing laser cannon in each arm, along with a slide-out vibroblade that was hastily added after the Yuuzhan Vong predilection with melee combat was observed. The vibroblades were removed after the Yuuzhan Vong War. A chin turret held one of several modular weapons packages: a rail cannon, dual repeating blasters, a flamethrower, or an ion cannon. To defend itself from swarming infantry, the Avatar was equipped with 24 caltrop grenades that could be fired to ring the Avatar in anti-personnel grenades. It also carried a pair of droidekas which could be dropped for fire support. However, the Avatar's main armament was the 72 concussion missiles mounted in thickly-plated shoulder racks. To defend the complex walker, each Avatar was equipped with both ray shields and kinetic shields to defend it from both physical impacts and energy blasts. A pair of anti-missile blasters helped defend it from anti-vehicle missiles. Thick durasteel fibrous ceramic plating was layered as a final means of defense, particularly over the missile racks and reactor core, which were separated by a bulkhead of the same material. A sacrificial ejection system was also created for the missile racks, allowing a pilot to dump ammunition that was in danger of exploding. Additionally, each Avatar pilot had an ejection system that would propel them hundreds of meters away from a doomed Avatar. Avatars used a similar sensor suite to the older Challenger tank, supplemented by a number of holocam feeds that allowed pilots to see from different vantage points of their walker despite being perched high in the cockpit. For additional surveillance and spotting, they each carried a pair of flying scout drones which could be launched and guided from the cockpit and feed data back to the Avatar.
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