Surface utility pickup truck. Crew cab plus bed configuration. One of three surface vehicles in the fleet (rover, pickup truck, van); the transport’s cargo bay holds one at a time, mission-selected.
At a glance
- Form: 5.6 m crew-cab pickup with open bed, 4-wheel off-road expedition register
- Drivetrain: four-wheel independent electric drive, one motor per wheel; Ackermann steering on the front pair
- Fuel source: enclosed deuterium-fusion micro-cell, 120 kW continuous, 180 kWh battery buffer
- Hull register: matte white-gray (consistent across the fleet)
- Accent: dark fender flares, rocker panels, wheel hubs, roof rack, roll bar, bull bar, sensor housings
Capabilities
- Pressurized crew cab for 5 (1 driver, 1 co-driver, 3 rear bench), with integrated airlock cycle for suit-up and suit-down
- Open bed (approximately 2.0 m by 1.8 m by 0.6 m), 1,200 kg cargo capacity, 4,500 kg tow capacity
- Top speed of 80 kph on graded surface, 30 kph on rough terrain; 350 km range per charge in Mars-class atmosphere
- Climbs 40-degree slopes, clears 0.55 m steps, fords 0.45 m of liquid
- Atmosphere tolerance from vacuum through 1.5 atm; operational from -120 C to +40 C
- Forward winch (2,500 kg pull, red hook), bull bar, integrated LED light bar, roll bar with vertical lights, roof rack with main light bar
- Forward LIDAR-equivalent imaging plus 360-degree camera coverage (4 cabin, 1 roof, 1 rear bed-facing)
- Direct line-of-sight comms to transport, mothership, or sister-ship; surface range approximately 200 km horizon-limited
- Recharge: approximately 3.5 hours from transport, 1.5 hours from mothership; roughly 30 hours of typical surface ops between charges
Mission profile
Stowed inside the transport ship’s cargo bay (8 m by 4 m by 3 m) and rolled out via the rear ramp once the transport lands. The truck favors capacity and tow over the rover’s gravimetric ground-survey instrumentation, which makes it the working vehicle of choice for surface fabrication, biosphere assessment, contested-ground security runs, and bulk cargo. Voss runs it for tools and equipment installs, Stone for agricultural and biosphere work, Reeve for security deployments. Atlas-1 or Atlas-2 typically drive solo or risky runs. It is surface-only, not flight-capable, and not stealth; for mobile-base sleeping the crew swaps to the van, and for armored long-range survey to the rover.
Visual
Crew-cab pickup with bed. Sloped angular forward face with integrated LED light bar. Black fender flares around all four wheels, black rocker panels along the lower body, side step rails along the cab. Roll bar over the bed carrying vertical lights, roof rack with the main light bar above the cab. Front bull bar, front winch with a red hook visible at rest. Dark window glass. Two-color palette: matte white-gray body (matches mothership, transport, rover, van), with dark fender flares, rocker panels, wheel hubs, roof rack, roll bar, bull bar, and sensor housings as the accent. The truck reads as fleet-matching at silhouette distance via the same matte white-gray skin family; the cab-plus-bed shape and the roll bar are what tell it apart from the rest.
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