EZ-060 Dark Spiner
Type: Spinosaurus
Length: 22.3 meters
Height: 16.6 meters
Weight: 118.0 tons
Speed: 240 kilometers per hour
Equipment: Communications Jamming Blades, 144mm Machine Gun x2, Electron Bite Fangs, Strike Laser Claw x2, 60mm double-barreled Cannon, Quad Defensive Cannons, Strike Smash Tail, Electron Discharge, Anchors/Footlocks
Armor Description:
The Dark Spiner has relatively decent armor for it's size covering nearly it's entire body. The main weakness of the Dark Spiner is that is has no armor covering the spines on it’s spinal array, which it relies on heavily for many of it’s cool abilities. Plus, it has some serious gaps in the armor on the rear side of the legs.
Communications Jamming Blades - The first feature of the Dark Spiner's back-mounted spinal array is the ability to jam enemy communications and sensors. When activated the communication jamming blades is capable of disabling enemy Zoids' extra-sensory systems like infrared, radar, 3D mapping, and much more.
144mm Machine Gun x2 - One is mounted on each shoulder and forward facing. They have a little bit of vertical pivoting but have no independent horizontal pivoting.
Electron Bite Fangs - Rows of razor-sharp alloy teeth line the Dark Spiner's long, powerful jaws. They can be charged up with electric energy for a lot of shocking electrical damage to go along with the physical damage. Generally used as a last resort, this equipment delivers quite a drain to the Dark Spiner's energy supply
Strike Laser Claw x2 - One on the end of each of the Dark Spiner's short arms, these claws are made of a sharp, extra-strength alloy. They can be charged with laser energy for more damage.
60mm double-barreled Cannon - Paired in the Spiner's chest, these are basically a pair of simple 60mm Cannons with no pivoting whatsoever so aiming them is difficult.
Quad Defensive Cannons - Mounted on the rear most spine, these defensive weapons suffer form a short range of less than 100 meters, but are capable of pivoting quite a bit on the vertical axis. Their energized light-speed laser shots can stun just about any Zoid in just a few seconds of constant fire.
Strike Smash Tail - The long, flexible, and armored tail of the Dark Spiner can become a powerful weapon itself if used properly.
Electron Discharge - While the Spiner lacks the ability to fire a charged particle cannon like the rest of the Imperial Therapod Zoids, the Spiner makes up for this weakness with its own devastating weapon system known as the electron discharger. It is used by raising the spinal array and charging it up with electrical energies. After about 4 seconds of this the Spiner can then discharge a massive bolt of electricity from its mouth which primarily deals a large amount of electrical damage to Zoid circuitry with some physical damage from heat to boot. It lasts for slightly more or less than a second or two. Another bonus is that the weapon has absolutely no recoil since it has no mass or force. Add to that the fact that the spiner can move its head and torso to aim the blast, and this attack becomes incredibly dangerous. Unfortunately for the Spiner, this weapon can only be fired twice in battle and never in two consecutive rounds due to the immense energy drain associated with the weapon and it can‘t use any other weapons fire at all in the same round in which it charges up. Also the loss of any of its spines reduces the amount of power of the blast proportional to how many spines are lost, disabling it if all the spines are removed. It should be noted that when firing the weapon the Dark Spiner can not move it's legs at all.
Anchors/Footlocks- The Dark Spiner has a pair of long, heavy metal anchors, also known as footlocks, mounted on the back of each foot. They help absorb recoil from weapons fire and keep the Dark Spiner in one place. They are used primarily to help absorb the recoil of the machineguns and make them more accurate but there are some other clever uses for them too.