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Development:
Developed from 2010 to 2015 by SKLT Systems to replace the SV-75V6 on H.F.C.A use and supplement it on O.O.C.A use. One of the reasons the Skandlasian government decided on a lighter tank is due to the use and transit on Skandlasian roads, with 75% of the bridges and 30% of the roads in the country, being unable to support the much heavier SV-75. Despite various initial errors such as weapon malfunctions, software glitches, and one nasty jam of the horizontal drive. The tank has been a successful replacement for the SV-75. One of the major innovations is the introduction of an Electrothermal-Chemical Technology or ETC Gun, utilizing a plasma cartridge to ignite the ammunition propellant in a more effective and predictable manner, effectively allowing the use of more effective, higher density propellants, this allows for greater penetration, velocity, and range while being able to fire conventional 100mm rounds, such as those used on the SV-75. Allowing Skandlandian forces to continue the use of the same shells.

Another major feature is the use of an Active Variable Pneumatic suspension, increasing gun depression and giving the tank the ability to see and in some cases fire over higher obstacles. The majority of the project budget went onto SKLT Systems developing various communications, demining and sensor suites, as the SV-75 was known for poor visibility and unreliable radios. As for the demining suite it consists of a frequency barrier and a UHF generator, in case of a possible IED attack or minefield, the UHF generator is activated, detonating prematurely any radio-controlled mines or explosives, if UHF generator is unavailable, or the danger of collateral casualties is too high, the frequency barriers is used instead, jamming any radio signals.

The HVK-10 Tiraljør was designed together with a new 100mm APFSDS round with plasma ignited propellants, allowing for 35% more velocity and increasing penetration without increasing caliber. Another advantage of the plasma ignited propellants is the much-reduced danger of an ammunition cook-off or ammunition explosion, increasing survivability. Much of the vehicle's protection equipment is designed with crew survivability in mind, 15mm of reinforced titanium protect the crew compartment in case of a penetrating hit, the soft-kill active defense system can neutralize projectiles before impacting the vehicle, this is done through various AESA radars and optical sensors paired with a premature detonation electronic system. a soft-kill system was chosen over a hard-kill system or a combined soft-kill, hard-kill suite due to the defensive nature of the vehicle, reducing collateral casualties was a priority in the design, although the soft-kill APS is not as effective as a combination of both.

A turbine engine was chosen over a conventional diesel engine due to increased horsepower at low speed and lower fuel consumption on the move, but it had to be paired with an APU as it would consume too much fuel when idle. The APU is a hydrogen fuel engine, something common in Skandlasian cars and increasingly in military hardware. The engine is placed on the front of the vehicle to increase the effective thickness of the front armor without increasing weight.

House of Mgar
Categories: History | Athara Magarat

Flag of Mgar dynasty; and later on of the Khas-Kirat Empire as well

Emblem of Mgar dynasty

Overview

Country	Khas-Kirat Empire Click to show... Liba Hangate Myagdi Hangate Akar Hangate Hangate of Arun Valley Hangate of Tamuwan Second Tamuwan Hangate Dura Hangate Kilat Hangate Asahan Hangate Hangate of Sanggar Chhantyal Hangate Second Tamsaling Hangate Hangate of Tachil Tiwe Hangate Hangate of Tiwe Sivn Xiangu Hangate Hangate of Chatha Hangate of Khumbuwan Chuli Hangate Mun Hangate Helambu Hangate Brellan Hangate Sunuwar Hangate Danuwar Hangate New Forest Hangate Hangate of Sinja Hangate of Jaring Koch Hangate Kheno-Madu Hangate Marubhumi Hangate
Ethnicity	Khas-Kirati, Ipachi, Doman, Nyssic, Osean
Etymology	Mgar, Wife of Mahang Mabo
Founded	10th Century
Founder	Mgar
Current Head	None
Final Ruler	Tilija Hangma
Dissolution	TBD
Cadet Branches	TBD

The House of Mgar (Muh-GAR), also called the House of Mahangs or the Imperial Clan, was one of the most influential and distinguished royal houses of the Isles. The throne of the Khas-Kirat Empire was continuously occupied by the Mgars from 964 until their extinction in the female line in 1918. The house also produced emperors, kings and queens of the Kingdom of Noronica (later on the Nyssic Colonial Empire), Holy Domananian Empire, Dominion of Nhoor (through the Cenharruc-Mgar dynasty), the Osean Empire of the Eastern Isles, as well as rulers of several San Montagnan principalities. From the 17th Century onward, following the disastrous Heavenly War of the Hangates, the dynasty was split between its "mainland Magarati" and "outer" cadet branches predominately in what are now Samudera (Banser), Razzgriz (Ran), Wellsia (Xiangu) and New totzka (Asygno). Although they ruled distinct territories, they nevertheless maintained close relations and frequently intermarried.

The House takes its name from Mgar, wife of Mahang Mabo, the adopted son of Srijunga Hang the Conqueror and the Second Mahang of the Khas-Kirat Empire. The couple had four daughters but not a single son and the lack of male heir troubled Mabo. Legends state that Mgar convinced her husband to change the law and designate one of their daughters as the Third Mahang of the Khas-Kirat Empire. However, being unable to choose between his daughters the perfect heir, Mabo made succession elective for his daughters and their matrilineal descendants. He further ensured that each of his daughter had to get the backing of one of the major tribes of the Khas-Kirat Empire and prove themselves in battlefield as it would have been required by traditional law for sons. In order to do so, he allowed his daughters to lead their own mercenary bands and earn prestige at the battlefields of distant lands. All of the four daughters participated in the succession race and each married bore three daughters each. The Hanglaw region would later be known as Bara Magarat due to each of the 12 hangates that emerged out of the Heavenly War of the Hangates claiming descent from one of these 12 granddaughters of Mgar and Mabo.

In 945, Mabo and Mgar's second daughter Tira, married into the Yakthung tribe (also known as Kirat-Limbus later on), would be crowned the Third Mahang by the Kurultai of tribal leaders after her father's death. Even within the Mgar dynasty, her direct matrilineal descendants made the most Mahangs.

The "mainland Magarati" House of Mgar became extinct on November 11 of 1909 with the accidental murder (which some allege to be deliberate assassination) of Tilija Hangma when an unknown bullet struck her in the crossfire in Courlaroux during the 1909 Revolution in Dormill and Stiura. Her death would precipitate across the Isles as several would-be Hangs from "outer" cadet branches began vying for the throne. After the War of the Khas-Kirati Succession (also called Great Gael War in Gael, War of Contested Throne in Raedlon and Third Central Argus War in parts of Argus), the Khas-Kirat Empire's throne was passed to TBD of the Noronnican crown. TBD dissolved the empire and established the highly centralized Magarati Dominion under Noronnican administration.

Current Mgar pretenders

Samudera

There are several families in Samudera that claim descent from Gole Hang, the founder of Kilat Hangate. Among them, the most famous is the House of Banser, which was the last dynasty to rule the Kingdom of Samudera (the successor state of Hangate of Sanggar which itself was successor state to the Kilat Hangate). All of the surviving members of the Banser family have claims to the Khas-Kirat Empire as well as the Kingdom of Samudera.

• TBD Banser members

Nhoor

In Nhoor, Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar and her children have claims to both the Dominion of Nhoor and the Khas-Kirat Empire. Her grandmother Anhí (1834 - 1888) was married to the Mgar prince Sheng Hang (1830 - 1925). Due to the Mgars favoring direct matrilineal inheritance while considering children of male members to be "outer families"; the couple's children became the cadet branch known today as the House of Cenharruc-Mgar (officially proclaimed by their second child and eldest son Armhad III after he became the King of Nhoor in 1898). During the Khas-Kirati War of Succession, Rhato's mother Calaví involved herself in the succession crisis despite other members of her family forbidding her to do so (as a dominion of Osean Empire of the Eastern Isles in Razzgriz, Nhoor was obliged to support the Osean Ran dynasty who had their own candidate vying for the title of Mahang). As punishment for embarrassing the nation in front of their Osean overlords and the international community with her unauthorized involvement, Calaví and her descendants were excluded from being in the line of succession to the throne of Nhoor and even exiled. The current pretenders from this particular line of Cenharruc-Mgar family are -

• Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar: born in 1939 and pretender since 1988

• Eldest Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar: born in 1965

• Daughter of Eldest Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar: born in 1990

• First Son of Daughter of Eldest Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar:

• Second Son of Daughter of Eldest Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar:

• Younger Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar: born in 1972

• Daughter of Younger Daughter of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar: born in 1972

• Son of Rhato Cenharruc-Mgar:

Mehis II of House Mgar-Ran, the current and acting Razz of the Grand Principality of Razzgriz, is another strong claimant to the title of Mahang.

Havalland

The descendants of King Hans III and Aspru; with the living ones being King Leon III of Havalland and his siblings along with the duchess of Turwick and her brother.

TBD