Properties
- walker
- single-pilot
- powered-armor-scale
- ranged-weapon-mount
- 20-ft-step
- bonded-vessel-eligible
- hull-points-45
A bipedal combat walker scaled for a single pilot — roughly three meters tall, two-and-a-half tonnes, with a reverse-articulated leg geometry and a stubby torso block built around the cockpit. The light walker is the smallest unit class still rated for line combat; on the Federation side it serves as a heavy-infantry support element, on the Echelon side as a corporate-security shock unit, on the frontier as the answer to anything bigger than a person and meaner. The pilot enters through a dorsal hatch and lies prone in a contoured harness; control is a hybrid of stick-and-pedal and direct neural feedback if a Cyber-Neural Interface is fitted. Stat handles (design doc §11): approximate Hull Points 45, walking speed equal to a fast jog (the walker takes a 20-foot step), short sprint bursts roughly twice that, no atmospheric flight, no swimming, fords water up to torso height. Crew 1 (pilot); no passengers. Notable features: torso-mount hardpoint sized for one shoulder-class ranged weapon (treat as the pilot's mounted weapon, fired using the pilot's Piloting modifier in place of attack proficiency until the full vehicle subsystem lands); composite armor treats the walker as powered-armor scale (immune to small-arms ballistic damage); manipulator claw rated for crude handling but not fine work. A Pilot of the Mech Pilot subclass treats this walker as a Bonded Vessel.