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The world changed significantly after the promise was broken. The country of Pacifica, before this event, had prospered and grown rapidly through a dynamic investment market sustained on very liberal economic laws. Deregulation and legal sequestering allowed corporations to operate practically unopposed. The breaking of the promise meant that overnight, Pacifica was isolated from foreign markets, capitals and corporate structures. Companies quickly failed and people found themselves without a job. The recently elected "socialist" government (actually keynesian and center-right by our own standards) acted quickly after threat to life had been reduced. Failing companies were not bailed out, but turned into coops, and factory farms were turned into kibbutz analogue organizations. Inflation was also reigned in by nationalizing significant non physical floating assets, reappraising them to reasonable levels, then divesting them beneficially or incorporating them to state enterprises.

This significantly and quickly affected emergency services. Fire departments had to mostly turn into volunteer or part-time job outfits, still with significant state funding. Police departments were incorporated into the National Police Force, as cities struggled to finance them. Many hospital ambulance services and private companies fell into the newly formed national Emergency Medical Attention Service (EMAS), ran centrally from its Tacoma Headquarters, answering to the dial 555 from anywhere in the country. National Police could be reached on dial 444 and Fire Central on dial 666. These changes ensured the continuation of service during the chaotic decade of the 2000s, in circumstances where lawlessness, tribalism and death prevailed on most of the world.

The Police Car is the more interesting conceptually so here are the details.
Jackman, a PACCAR company, 2003 Siletz SR Type V Police Cruiser
Homologation version of an AWD long distance rally car.
1,360kg/3,000lb curb weight
3L cast iron common rail turbocharged i6 250hp @ 4500 rpm, 550 Nm @ 2000 rpm
5 seats, holes for handcuffs on rear ones, mesh barrier between rear and front seats, SMG slots on doors, deployable tray on trunk. Extendable tray with cupholders and plate for doughnuts (fried and glazed, nothing more)
Factory accessories include steel and mesh bumper, better door seals, air conditioner intake moved to top of engine compartment, mud flaps and ridiculous rear wing.

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Emergency Vehicles of Stradena International Airport
Stradena International Airport, located in the city of Stradena, is the 2nd busiest airport in Strivonia. With eight runways, and approximately 9,000 Acres of land, RSDA is the 6th largest Airport by acre in Strivonia. With a lot of people and land to protect, management at RSDA makes sure the airport has an up-to-date fleet of Emergency Vehicles for both Fire rescue and Police services at the airport. These services play a pivotal role in ensuring the airport's smooth operations and the safety of passengers and personnel alike, it is crucial they receive the best equipment to respond and take control of whatever situation faces them at RSDA.



Rourke Motor Company Defender
Released in 2018, the Rourke Defender is an 8x8 Heavy Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Truck designed for the large operations. RSDA sees an average of 2,600 aircraft a day, of those being a larger quantity of wide-bodied aircraft from international flights. The Rourke Defender was chosen to be the lead truck of the ARFF Fleet due to its capabilities in large- and small-scale fire operations. Equipped with a High reach extendable turret that comes with a hull-piercing boom, water hose, and foam hose, the HRET allows the Rourke Defender to reach high and low areas on an aircraft that need to be extinguished in an emergency, which makes it highly versatile. The Rourke Defender also has a second foam turret off the front of the truck for close quarters extinguishment. The truck can also carry up to 4,500 gallons of water and retardant and has eleven compartments for a variety of personnel equipment. All of these features make the Rourke defender the premiere ARFF Truck in RSDA's Fleet of first responders.

Bosslar Industries Cavalry Ambulance
Released in 2016, the Cavalry 4x4 Ambulance is a medium sized Ambulance based on the famed Bosslar Cavalry Series of Van. Bosslar Industries is a renowned motor company in Strivonia, producing a wide array of vehicles from military, farm and mining equipment to semi-trucks and civilian cars. Due to how popular the industry giant is for quality vehicles, their Cavalry 4x4 Series of Ambulance was chosen for the paramedic forces within the ARFF Fleet.

Bosslar Industries Paladin Pickup Truck
Released in 2023, the Bosslar Paladin 4x4 Pickup Truck is the newest vehicle to enter the RSDA's Emergency fleet of vehicles. The Bosslar Paladin was chosen for the same reasons the Bosslar Cavalry Ambulance was chosen back in 2016, being the 2023 winner for the "PopularMotor's" Magazine "Truck of the year" award for superiority in its class. While the Police force at RSDA already has a number of cruisers and patrol cars in their fleet, they lacked utility vehicles which the Bosslar Paladin aimed to fix. The Police force chose to add the "Work Package" to the 2023 Model Paladin that included a reinforced front and rear bumper, stainless steel toolbox, and two additional spotlights. The Police also received tinted and reinforced rear windows for the possibility of detaining suspects on the Airport.

Gallan Motors Corporation 'Antelope' Armored Security Vehicle (ASV), City of Hyssna Metropolitan Police Department, KRASH Team


Antelope ASV Mark III with a .60-caliber machine gun during the CaTS raid, A.D. 2080.

In the aftermath of the Dorestad Incident, the Gallic National Police Service found itself overwhelmed and undermanned to handle the problem of local city concerns. Bolstered by martial law, and with manpower provided by the conscription of "anyone who can stand", the NPS and the Home Guard worked together during the Alarian War to maintain some modicum of productivity. However, this would be inadequate going into the reconstruction phase, and the NPS found itself re-rolled as an administrative and standards agency rather than an operational field force under the Instrument of Government of 2053. In Gallic historiography, this marks the end of the Alarian War, although the actual combat phases of the war had been terminated for nearly two weeks at the time of its announcement in December of 2053.

Under the IG53, the NPS was responsible for maintaining the cybernetic police commandos of the Public Security Service, the uniformed detectives and Special Assault Teams of the SÄST, and the military police of the Royal Guard. In its official capacity, the NPS assists the now local and municipal police forces of the Gallic state in the arrest of criminals and liquidation of "terrorists, subversives, and anti-social elements" with these four organs, concentrated primarily in the three most major urban areas of Metropolitan Gallia: Hyssna, Kiruna, and Kivik. As part of this, the largest metropolitan police agencies received massive funding increases from local tax collection, allowing them to procure advanced weapons and equipment from lists provided by the NPS. New models of internal security vehicles, once exclusive to the wartime Home Guard and their peacetime cousins in the Constabulary, trickled into the urban areas that survived the nuclear exchange. Poorer urban areas often had to make do with the hand-me-downs of the wartime forces, refitting nearly hundred-year old Patgb 95s with commercial bus engines when possible, and equipping strike teams with surplus automatic rifles.

The Metropolitan Police Department is different. Hyssna MPD belongs to the most prosperous of the Gallic cities, having near fully recovered to pre-war standards of living within a decade, and is fully capable of flexing its prodigious muscle throughout its demesne. The KRASH (yn. Communal Resources for Attacking anti-Social Hooligans) unit of the HMPD is second only to the Home Guard in its prowess in crushing urban riots, and when pitted against corporate or foreign influence, or anti-social elements, is second only to the Army itself. Organized as a joint operations unit of the HMPD and the NPS, the KRASH team incorporates the NPS's cybernetic Special Assault Teams, SMASK (yn. Special Militaresque Assault Forces Command) special weapons teams, and (rarely) the battlesuits of the Royal Army's Ranger regiments. Formed in the aftermath of the Pihl Tunnel Incident of 2076, where a makeshift cybertank nearly liquidated a SMASK response team to a man and killed almost two dozen officers of the HMPD during a three hour rampage, KRASH teams allow the HMPD to tackle the problem of heavily armed criminal elements before they grow too large.

First stood up in 2078, HMPD KRASH's baptism by fire occurred in 2080 when corporate security troops, attempting to cover up several illicit financial transactions regarding a Port Authority automated forklift scheme, botched the simultaneous assassinations of three kingpins of the Hyssna Gunsmiths' Guild, International Association of Alarian Firefighters - Gallia (IAAFF-G), and the Programmers' Guild. In a series of somewhat unbelievable events, all three union leaders survived their assassination attempts, and were qualified to testify after major reconstructive surgeries (a cyberbrain transplant from a bullet-riddled body to a full prosthetic; full facial transplant and laryngeal prosthetic, as well as skin grafts over 40% of the burned body; and replacement of paraplegic lower legs with a detachable mechanized mobility unit). Investigation led to Lao Electronics Ltd. DBA Cybertronics and Technical Specialists, Incorporated (CaTS, Inc.), which had a large office in the Port of Hyssna. After being ordered to serve a warrant to recover the datavaults contained within the building, local police were rebuffed by aggressive actions by the armed corporate police forces, including a medium machine gun, submachine guns, and several rifle grenades. An assault team of KRASH, comprising a AMV 'POP' section (3 tanks), a singular AMV 'Antlion', SAT cyborg assault team, and three SMASK squads in 'Antelope' armored cars, which eventually brought the corpo cops under control and secured a majority of the datavault's contents. The supposed wrongdoing of the union leaders, brought as the main legal defense by CaTS, led to a further investigation that resulted in the internal ouster of the Programmers' Guild's union president, forced retirement of the IAAFF president, and the disappearance of the Gunsmithing Guild's president under mysterious circumstance, all due to pending financial misconduct investigation from the Crown Attorney's Office.

Craft-built Ambulance, Duchy of Virdois, Peninsular Gallia, A.D. 2097


Ambulance of the Special Administrative Region of Virdois of the Principality of Gallia.

Not to be confused with: Virdois (country).

The metropolitan cities of Gallia, with the exception of the Chtimi SAR, remained largely politically homogeneous in the aftermath of the Alarian War. The same cannot be said for Peninsular Gallia, which over the decades has become fractious and politically disunited. The Free Territories, although nominally part of Gallia, are a de facto independent collection of despotisms, anarchists, cults, and city-states which exist in a constant flux of lawlessness and civil warfare. South of this zone lies the Sapmi Republic, a loyal but ethnically homogeneous region of the Sami peoples, with the primary demarcation between this and "proper" Peninsular Gallia being the Duchy of Blaahuslan: a fairly backwards quasi-feudal state in its own right.

The Duchy of Virdois represents a similar transitional area between Peninsular Gallia and the Kingdom of Vepsia. Again, both in ethnic-national and political boundaries, and in technology itself. Under the Instrument of Government of 2053, Gallic leaders were granted some manner of autonomous rule from the national government. Now, de facto federalized yet de jure unitary, Damocles' Sword of "civil warfare" hangs over the monarch. Organized as boroughs, counties, duchies, and lands rather than towns, districts, provinces, and regions as in the preceding IG 1907, the new organization brought back feudalistic titles to go with the autonomy, and the majority of regions are organized with single figureheads. Every officer of government from count to grand duke attends to the court of the prince when they are called.

Naturally, this has led to an increase in wealth disparity, as some leaders prefer to pilfer wealth rather than invest it, c'est la vie.

Although the "cozy city on the sea" retains its rustic charms, the outskirts are oft miserable. Warm and wet in spring and summer, cold and wet in Winter. Much of the population lives without electricity, even to this day, and in a chronic state of fear of Socialist invasion by the Verdant Army across the border. During the closing of the Alarian War, "ultranationalist hooligans" of the Union State marched across the border, instigating a low-level nuclear exchange between the UZR and Gallia that lasted for nearly a month, and saw the destruction of an entire SSR and Field Army's respective worth of armored vehicles. Millions of refugees, seeking shelter in the north from the atom-blasted insular heartland, found themselves fleeing south to Virdois, or briefly into Vepsia, until the latter imposed strict border controls using automatic weapons and mortars.

Now, escarped around a city whose pre-war population barely exceeded 100,000, the small duchy found itself needing to feed nearly a million mouths. Food rapidly dwindled, and with the Free Territories in the south and west, the Vepsians to the east, and the mangled remains of the Gallic Third Army in the north (now, rather presumptively, calling itself the "Provisional Reconstruction Authority"), there was precious little of it to go around. Rumors of cannibalism, always present even into the decades after the war, give the image of a city of ghouls waiting to devour the precious thing they've surrounded, were it not for their inability to move due to lack of calories and emaciated bodies. The truth is somewhat harsher: Virdois employs these meek indigents as de facto slave laborers to exploit economic resources surrounding them, often exporting iron and importing fresh food for the Third Army. The rail junction, maintained by the better educated and categorized indigents, is often seen as a pathway to success for the poorest of the Duchy. Due to its necessity as a economic pipeline, being the only port on the Vepsian Sea that the Provisional Reconstruction Authority has direct access to, these railroad technicians often receive "premium" housing, typically upgrading from a shanty to communal barracks with indoor heating and electric showers, or a shared two-family condominium-type home.

Given land for a closet-sized shanty in the maze of rickety wooden, tin, and steel structures simply for arriving, albeit huddled around burning barrels, and often found eating "bread" made from maize or rye flour and melted snow, the majority of Virdois lives in crushing poverty. Evidenced by this, however, is a certain level of resourcefulness. These scrappy, hard people living by their work alone, who constitute the largest, most densely populated northern city in Gallia, have become the subject of romantic art in neo-Impressionist paintings and naturalistic melodrama films. As a result, pressure on the Duke of Virdois to improve their living standards has grown, although this seems unlikely to occur provided there is economic incentive or pressure. Virdois's primary income, aside from its trade, is from its status as a Special Exemption Zone from H.M. Customs and Excise allowing for exceptionally low tax rates, functioning as an "interior tax haven" for Hyssnite and Kirunite trillionaires.

The ambulance depicted is typical of the povertous countryside of Virdois, being a cart converted from spare automobile parts by local artisans, and pulled by one or more "oxen". These oxen are most often draught animals, such as the Gallan Genetics Aurox® Highland GMO cattle. Rarely, they are recovered robotic units such as the Gallan Cybernetics' Big Box®, as in this case. The latter were usually found in old military depots in the outlying areas of the Free Territories, although as these have grown increasingly scarce they are more often imported, or found in scrapyards, nowadays. There is typically sufficient room for an attendant, driver, and paramedic, doctor or shotgun, and one or two emergency litters. Vehicle speed with draught oxen is around 6 miles per hour, while ordinary vehicle speed with robotic oxen is closer to 10 mph, on average. A small

Alarian Motors Corporation 'Gremlin' Firefighting Vehicle, H.M. Forestry Service, Peninsular Gallia, A.D. 2074


'Gremlin' high mobility rescue vehicle, H.M. Forestry Service, A.D. 2074.

Prior to the Alarian War, a number of high-speed tracklayers were procured by the Border Guard Troops (Graansvakt) and Forestry Service for purposes of patroling and high speed mobility. Based on a high-speed robotic tracklayer, developed by the defunct Alarian Motors Corporation for the Royal Army, and used in the Alarian War in a variety of roles. The Gremlin was the firefighting rescue variant.

Other versions were the gun carrier 'Goblin', the Forestry Service utility/park warden vehicle 'Gnome', and the Graansvakt utility/radar carrier 'Gancanagh'. Due to the alliterative nature of the AMC naming scheme, they were known as the "G-wagon", due to their tracklaying nature.

The Gremlin depicted is in service with one of the H.M. Forestry Service's rural fire departments, and remains so today nearly five decades after the Alarian War, typically sustained on surplus parts acquired from the Royal Army stockpiles. Many G-wagons had been liquidated due to the imminent introduction of the Type 72 Autonomous Mobile Vehicle (AMV) in the 70's, resulting in a surge of spare tracks and mobility components.

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Hello,

Look likes I got a case of the "what day is it now?" and cannot do what I originally planned but did do an emergency vehicle set anyway with three vehicles built on the same chassis inspired by the God given Land Cruiser and its rival (?) the Nissan Patrol.



Thank You.

Polls Now Open
The submission period for the Emergency Vehicle Challenge has ended.
Please consider rating each entry here.
Options for the next challenge can be ranked here.
Both polls will remain open until Thursday 18 March, ending at 23:59 (UTC-12). Countdown timer.

Options for the Next Challenge (All Shipbucket Scale)
One Small Step
1. Your submission must depict a fictional spacecraft with a lander module.
2. The craft should be capable of visiting, landing upon, and then returning from another celestial object.
3. Existing real life technology, or plausible technology seriously considered (e.g. nuclear thermal propulsion, not Alcubierre drives), must be employed.

Real Life II
1. Your submission must depict a real ship or submarine in SB scale.
2. Your drawing(s) should be suitable for inclusion in the Shipbucket archive.
3. Never built designs are permitted if you present a realistic interpretation of their appearance in service.
If chosen, Drawing Quality will be this challenge's sole category. Also, the number of views and drawings permitted in each entry will not be restricted.

Minelayer
1. Your submission must depict a fictional minelayer.
2. The minelayer should be a surface ship or submarine purpose-built to lay mines at sea.

Export Light Frigate
1. Your submission must depict a fictional light frigate.
2. The light frigate should be designed and built exclusively for export, and shown in the service of a country other than its creator.
3. Full load displacement must be between 1,500 long tons (1,524 tonnes) and 4,000 long tons (4,064 tonnes).
4. The light frigate should be laid down at some point between 1960 and 1990.
5. Low cost should be a key element of your light frigate's design. It should be less expensive to build and operate than ships fulfilling the same role in the navy of its creator.

Military High Speed Transport
1. Your submission must depict a fictional military high-speed transport capable of moving personnel and materiel across the ocean rapidly.
2. The maximum speed of your vessel should exceed the maximum speed of most contemporary transport ships.
3. Your high speed transport must be a conversion of a surface combatant, or of a design derived from a surface combatant.
4. No restriction is placed on time period.

Challenge Results
The polls for the Emergency Vehicle Challenge and our next challenge are now closed. Thanks to everyone who responded, as well as those who submitted an entry. Congratulations to The_Sprinklez and Charguizard, who tied for first place with 256 points for their respective entries. The_Sprinklez also attained the highest Design Quality Score. Following close behind is El_Snow, who attained 254 points and the highest Drawing Quality score for their entry.



For those interested, the One Small Step Challenge is now open. The other options were ranked as follows: Export Light Frigate, Military High Speed Transport, Minelayer, Real Life Challenge II.

This is the full entry, I thought I couldn't beat Sprinklez' logos in a fair fight but then these got judged out of the scope of the rules so they were deleted.

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