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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Relique du Madde" data-source="post: 5427465" data-attributes="member: 42169">"Distress call...that's a sad thing. Maybe we can help them out if it's not too far out of our way. Did you get a fix on their location?""East of Hectate,  so if you're able to see us it should take you anywhere between 9 to 12 hours to get to them.  That is assuming your pilgrimage is using an off roading vehicle and not ridding camels."OOC: I'm assuming the 'scouts' are using the binoculars There is a lot of activity on the mega crawler as it passes directly before the road junction.  You are able to tell that it has a total of four small turrets which are placed on each corner of the machine's top deck.  This deck has small railing as well as anchorage for an airship.  There are several look outs standing on top of this deck and are scanning the horizon as if looking for group's caravan.The mega crawler appears to have two deck levels. The main deck has one small room like cab on it's front left and rear right corners.  This raised deck is located above each of the crawler's treads.  The lower deck consists of the regions towards the center of the crawler and appears to be raised about twelve feet off the ground, however the mega crawler only appears to have about eight feet of clearance underneath it.[sblock=Ottoman]The turrets remind of of the tanks created during the first Great War by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FT17Kabul.jpg" target="_blank">Britons </a> and later used by the valiant Afghans in the protection of their lands from the Imperialist crusaders during the later half of that century.  Due to the size of the turrets, you suspect that like the turrets from those ancient war machines the crawler's turrets are not machine powered and instead are rotated by using a hand crank.[/sblock][sblock=Seif]There is no way the turret's cannons can fire at any non-aerial threat within short range of the mega crawler.  However this deficiency maybe resolved if the crew were able to mount firearms at various spots along the crawler's railing.[/sblock][sblock=Brian]You can see one heat signature in the crawler's cab.[/sblock]In all, the mega crawler is being escorted by four armored light crawlers.  These crawlers are so heavily armored that its windows are reduced to slits. Each of these crawlers have what appears to be a raised hatch on its roof.[sblock=Brian]From the looks of the heat signatures, each of the escort crawlers seem to have a two or three man crew.  They seem to be using a similar set up as the caravan is using:  One driver, one spotter, one extra person. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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