Wa Locust Spelljammer Reimagined by sleyvas

Last crawled date: 5 years, 8 months ago

The Locust is a small manned vessel. Ostensibly, it has 2 to 3 personnel to run the ship, a pilot and one to run the forward facing ballista or rear facing catapults. The rear facing catapults are articulated like locust legs to move forward for reloading via an underside hatch and the shot loaded is encased in iron so that it will stay in the catapult while the ship maneuvers. The pilot of a locust does not control a spelljamming helm, but rather uses a simple rudder of propulsion to direct this suicide machine. The locust is hardly ever seen alone and is normally found aboard a Tsunami carrier vessel from the Torilian nation state of Wa. Said vessel normally carries 36 locusts. Locusts are made from balsa wood and a lightweight giant bamboo material grown in Wa, and it is said that Wa has sought to grow this plant in other crystal spheres as a means for setting up remote spelljamming bases. As a result, locusts are extremely maneuvable and hard to hit, but when they are hit, they are almost universally destroyed. As a result, some wounded pilots of these vessels have been known to be suicidal to the point of driving them into other spelljamming vessels while loaded down with barrels of smokepowder and/or containers of greek fire to great pyrotechnic effect.
This is a remix using the following models as a base, and for some reason when adding models right now I can't "see" any thingiverse associations, so I'm listing them here.
Ballista (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3238185) by Duskdark
cricket (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2896237) by caj