Famille Spofulam Introduces New Tac Missile

Warhead features advanced stealth capabilities

Famille Spofulam, a company long associated with unusual weapons design recently announce a new man-portable Tac missile that incorporates new stealth features in its construction. Called Penguin by its designers, the new weapon also boasts a revolutionary guidence system that is capable of functioning at extrememly low temperatures and at difficult target aspect ratios. "We assume a head on engagement" stated the company's spokesman. "And the Penguin's unique stealth profile means it's highly unlikely that the target will identify the closing warhead as a threat until it is too late".

Sgt. D. Berry prepares to test fire the "Penguin"

Famille Spofulam "Penguin" RPP-7 AT launcher

News From The Trenches

Contributed by Glenn Goffin

Heya/Spinward Marches, 100-1116:

Spaceport Alpha, north of the Hamantt jungle -- This reporter was covering the story of new experiments in quadrotriticale farming in the cool farmland north of the Hamantt jungle when a story related to, but not primarily about, agriculture suddenly broke out. Vargr, refugees from the Fifth Frontier War who had been settled on Heya by Imperial authorities after the war, had necessarily tried their hand at farming. Politics, economics, and their own ineptness as farmers had turned many of them into sharecroppers, barely eking out a subsistence living on lands owned by human farmers whose ancestors colonized Heya generations ago. Tensions between the primarily urban Vargr, largely perceived by human Heyans as lawless and dangerous, and humans in the capital city of Hilung had already reached a fever pitch some months ago. Now something broke the patience of the tenant farmers. What it was, I at least have not been able to discern.

What I was able to discern was a massive attack on Spaceport Alpha by a Vargr tank battalion. How did a Vargr tank battalion, armed and equipped to local tech level standards (i.e., TL 5), get here? Local officials have more questions than answers. Nevertheless, some 70 red flame tanks, sporting frightful tiger mouths and yellow and black markings, launched a reckless assault in the direction of the spaceport at which the current season's harvest of quadrotricale -- mostly grown and harvested by these selfsame Vargr tenant farmers -- awaits pickup and transshipment to the starport at Hilung.

The human Heyans were well prepared for the Vargr, however, in entrenched positions with superior armored vehicles. Over the course of four or five minutes, the Vargr lost three-quarters of their armored forces and all of their aircraft, while inflicting only slight casualties on the humans forces. The Vargr withdrew under cover of smoke