Lego – Alien Quadriped Attack Vehicle

While living in Aylmer I would pop by the local department store (such as it was) every so often and buy some Lego. If it was a cold, miserable winter weekend, I thought there was nothing better than staying indoors, attaining a high degree of creativity and letting my imagination run rampant.

I got one of those Bionicles, made it, went “mmeeeehhh” but had an idea for something cooler I could make out of it. Wandered down to the store, bought another one and made this out of it.

The fearsome “Alien Quadriped Attack Vehicle” (known as the A.Q.A.V. for short – pronounced as Eh-kwav) that is decimating the planet.

Little is known about what it is made from. It seems virtually impervious to most of humanities weaponry.

What is known, is that it is outfitted with a frightening array of weaponry.

It’s also known that it has awesome mobility, capable of running at well over 70 km per hour, jumping about three stories, swimming through even rough oceans at 30 km per hour, moving through any sort of terrain, and acquiring targets and firing its weapon systems with deadly accuracy while doing so.

One of its most terrifying weapons is its tail mounted cannon. Capable of firing in any direction, it can launch a ball of fiery energy vast distances, destroying a square kilometer wherever it lands.

It isn’t known how it’s powered. Whether it has vast internal stores of energy, whether it draws its power from the sun, some scientists working frantically to stop this menace have even speculated that it gets its power from the oxygen in the air around it.

Its side mounted, swiveling cannon turrets are equally lethal. Capable of turning in almost any direction, it’s been observed that each one seems to have its own target recognition and acquisition system. Both the arms themselves and the turrets atop them move at a phenomenally rapid speed, quickly swiveling to counter any movement. It shoots out blasts of directed energy that are as deadly to both air and ground targets.

While the turrets primary job seems to be defense of the vehicle, they are equally capable of firing forward in an offensive role.

The turrets appear also to not be able to hit any portion of the vehicle itself. Its control system seems to immediately halt firing if a portion of the leg or foot passes in front of its arc of fire, and resumes as soon as there is once again no threat to itself.

The head/cockpit houses two side mounted rapid fire weapons, discharging with an almost gatling gun like speed.

The head/cockpit furthermore has a terrifying heat beam weapon that literally cooks people alive. These evil extra-terrestrials are truly monsters!

Virtually nothing is known about the physiology of these creatures. What is known is that a large caliber round, .50 cal and above, right through the forehead kills them.  The A.Q.A.V. will stop moving at this point, but the side turrets and head guns will still fire at anything that comes near it. It isn’t known how long before, if ever, they will stop being a threat. This appears to be about the only weak link. The problem of course is actually getting an accurate projectile through, since the head guns throw up a withering barrage at the merest hint of anything coming towards it. Even small arms fire is destroyed by it, never mind artillery fire or guided missiles.

The feet can suport the A.Q.A.V. on any sort of terrain, even desert sand, snowy drifts and muddy swamps, and they’ve been seen kicking through thick reinforced concrete.

The human race has never faced a threat like these seemingly invincible machines. It may well be the last threat we ever face.