Rat Truck

Rat Truck
Production information
Manufacturer	Coalition of Ordered Governments
Technical specification
Armament	Cow Catcher
Crew	One driver One passenger
Usage
Role(s)	Patrolling Transport
Era(s)	Pendulum Wars Locust War Lambent Pandemic
Affiliation	Coalition of Ordered Governments

The Rat Truck was a vehicle used by the Coalition of Ordered Governments armed forces. It was a small, four-wheeled, crudely repaired flat-bed with a roll bar. The Rat Truck had been used on the battlefield by the COG military since the Pendulum Wars, but was more commonly used during the final parts of the Lambent Pandemic.

History

Pendulum Wars

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Locust-Human War

Rat Trucks in the Onyx Point motor pool.

Destruction of Halvo Bay

Six weeks after Emergence Day, when Kilo Squad made their way through Onyx Point to arm the Lightmass Missile, they passed by a motor pool full of Rat Trucks parked around the installation, while others were placed on large elevator lifts along the side of the base.

Lambent Pandemic

Delta disembarks from Hoffman's Rat Truck after reaching the fort.

Anvil Gate

When the Gas Barge Delta had hijacked crashed thanks to Queen Myrrah, Colonel Victor Hoffman drove out in a Rat Truck with a small unit of Gears expecting to confront Locust. They picked up Delta and beat a hasty retreat back to Anvil Gate after Marcus Fenix warned Hoffman of the imminent attack from the Locust.

After the attack was held off, Marcus and Cole rode out in a Rat Truck to rescue Sam and Anya after theirs was destroyed by remaining Locust. When they reached them, their vehicle was also destroyed by a Savage Boomer who fired a Digger Launcher at them, making the truck spin out and collide with a tree, killing the driver and flinging both Marcus and Cole from it onto the ground.

Delta decapitates a Brumak with some razor wire that they were dragging while in the two Rat Trucks.

Road to Mercy

Borrowing two Rat Trucks from Hoffman at Anvil Gate, Delta escorted a Tanker driven by Dizzy to get fuel at Mercy for a submarine at Endeavor Shipyards. One Rat Truck was driven by Jace, with Anya and Marcus in the back with a Vulcan, and a Stranded driving the other with Dom and Sam in the back, also with a Vulcan.

The Highway to Mercy had been covered in an Imulsion field. With no other choice, the Rat Trucks drove over the highly unstable ground to divert the pursuing Reavers, with Dizzy taking an alternate route. They blasted through some rusted Imulsion pipes to get back on the Highway. They fought past endless Savage Locust roadblocks, getting stuck in a sand trap at one point, and then using the trucks to decapitate a Brumak, before heading through a tunnel to Mercy. At Mercy, one Rat Truck was abandoned and possibly destroyed while the other was used to leave the town after Dom's death.

Delta leaving Char.

Char

After failing to get fuel at Mercy, Delta moved on to Char but ran out of fuel while in the derelict city, having left the other Rat Truck behind in Mercy. While Marcus, Sam, Jace and Anya went looking for fuel, Dizzy guarded the Truck. He, and the truck, were captured by Griffin's men. After Delta helped drive off a Locust attack, Griffin fled, leaving the truck and Dizzy along with fuel to get it to the shipyards.

Delta leaving their remaining Rat Truck behind as they make their way into Endeavor.

Endeavor Shipyard

After getting some fuel from Griffin in Char, Delta drove to Endeavor to find a submarine to take them to Azura. They rammed down the gate, running over two Locust guards, and burst into the now Locust-controlled shipyard. The truck was left behind at the Shipyard when they left in the CNV Adamant for Azura.

Halvo Bay

After being assigned to get reinforcements, weapons and a ship, Damon Baird, Augustus Cole and Clayton Carmine used a third Rat Truck from Anvil Gate to reach Halvo Bay. It was left abandoned at an overlook near the city where the Gears linked up with Garron Paduk.