TITLES

Official Vapourbot Awards 2006: Best Tracked Robot
The Chevron Championship: Winner of Heat A
The Chevron Championship: Grand Finalist
The Chevron Championship: Champion!
Official Vapourbot Awards 2008: Best Tracked Robot
Official Vapourbot Awards 2009: Best Tracked Robot
Official Vapourbot Awards 2010: Best Tracked Robot
Official Vapourbot Awards 2010: HALL OF FAME ENTRANT
Official Vapourbot Awards 2011: Best Tracked Robot

Weight: 110kg

Shape: Two tracked modules with a module on which the weapon is mounted.

Mobility: Uses stainless steel tracks with textured rubber bolted on to each. The links have L shaped protrusions extending into the body on each side which wrap around an internal rail in the chassis, meaning that it is very difficult to remove the links. If it should come to it, Darkestar CAN move with its tracks removed, however, it is nowhere near as efficient. The track modules can rotate independantly of each other, up to about a 70 degree difference, which makes is harder for darkestar to get trapped on think like the wall or other robots.

Motors: 2x LEM130@48v

Speed: 15mph,

Turning circle: 0m

Armour: The chassis of the robot is made of 4mm hardox including the central weapon module and the side prongs. The prongs are actually parts of the chassis extended through slits in the armour. The extenernal parts of the chassis lack the weight reducing drilled holes of the internal chassis. The armour plates are effectively slotted backwards between the prongs and the chassis behind before being fastened down which makes removing them by brute force alone very difficult.

The armour itself is 5mm titanium on the outside of the pods, and goes down to 10mm polycarbonate on the inside. The armoured protecting the front and rear of the tracks is 8mm titanium and permenantly affixed to the chassis. The plates surrounding the flipper, including the protective mounting domes are 4mm hardox and there is a 20mm polycarbonate sheet on both top and bottom of the weapons modules, primarily to prevent entanglement.

Ground clearance: As a tracked robot, although technically zero it is still relatively accessible to wedges, the front has an overhang, however, the central module prongs rest on the ground and are therefore low enough to get under oponents for pushing should the need arise.

Weapons: A 13kg triangular flywheel spinning at 1500rpm. It is mounted of a free moving frame, therefore the weapon will be in exactly the same positon relativly if the robot is inverted so it can carry on completly as normal. The single LEM130@48v is housed within the central module on which everything else is mounted.

Dimensions: 100cm L x 85cm W x 28cm H (w/o weapon module) 45cm H (w. weapon module)

Srimech: Invertible. The central module can rotate freely 40 degrees either way of the tracks, meaning that the central module is always resting flat against the floor.

Vague Weight Breakdown:

13kg Disc + 6kg Inner module armour + 11kg outer module armour + 9kg motors + 18 kg batteries + 35kg of tracks + 9kg of chasis + 9kg of miscellania

= 110kg