Destral Courtyards

Inionn looks around, having jsut been rescued.
"One place the rogues haven't gotten to. Not yet, at least."

Brotherhood tanks at this location are replaced by the new variant. The old tanks are put in storage.

Another agent passes Inionn and climbs into the tank. Noticing that Inionn is standing there being useless, he waves the agent over. "Hey, I need someone to help me test this thing. It normally needs a crew of five, but since we're not in combat, two should work out. Can you get in the commander's seat?"

"Step up from the old ones, that's for sure. I'll be the driver and hull gunner. I just need you to test out the main cannon and the turret gun."

The tank is activated and the Crast below it kick in. It drives to a part of the Destral underground that is used for testing. It is a large, open chamber with targets set up on the far end.

"Thing drives pretty well... Check out turret rotation for me. You don't have the neural hookup, so just use the joystick on your chair. Forward-back makes the gun go up and down, left-right does... left-right." Meanwhile, he pulls the trigger on the railguns, obliterating a portion of the target before its Hau activates.

"Perfect. Now, I'm not sure how the new gun works. If it's like the old ones, the gun is right in front of you and has a trigger on it. It might have a trigger on the joystick, not sure."

An inspection of the turret area would reveal both to be true. The back end of a Stone Launcher is next to the big gun; presumably, the front end is sticking out of the turret.

The target Haus after receiving a few hits and fades just in time for the main cannon of the tank to fire. The entire target is destroyed in a ball of blue fire.

"Nice shot! That's the plasma, I'm guessing, but it has other settings, too. It automatically loads those all. I think that's good enough; I trust Brotherhood tanks to work as intended. One last test that I want to try anyway, though, is the shield. It's automatic, but the commander can activate it, too. Can you even... look for it? I don't know how it even works."

There is one surface with a Lhikan-Hau imprinted into it. Presumably, hitting that would activate the tank's Hau.

A Hau shield visibly opens around the tank. "Excellent! It works. Now we should take this back up and I'll file the report. And maybe you sign onto tank crew. We need more of them after they all got killed."

It is, oddly enough, literally a sign-up sheet pinned to a wall in the fortress. You'd think Destral would be a bit more official than that.