Based off a variety of STC printouts (most notably an 85% complete multipurpose flexible fuel engine designed as a backup power system for frontier colonists) as well as a variety of commonly employed mechanisms used by vehicles produced in the disparate worlds of humanity during the great crusade, the Destrier Pattern Groundcar was designed in M34 by the famed Magos Henricex Chevronti and has remained in production ever since with minor tweeks here and there. Even in a galaxy beset by endless war where economic vehices such as trucks and tractors and combat vehicles such as Leman Russ tanks and Chimeras take priority there are millions of varieties of motorized road vehicles employed throughout the Imperium by civilians for personal transport, from simple steam powered machines that the Adeptus Mechanicus does not consider to be true machines hundred meter long landships employed the wealthiest of the Imperium's Nobility. The Destrier Pattern Groundcar is among the most common as it's basic blueprints and rituals of fabrication were disseminated in M35 as part of an Inter Hive World agreement. In the end, Manufactoria across more than a thousand planets and Thirty Forge Worlds were involved in the Production of Destrier pattern Groundcars, though no world has become as prolific a producer of groundcars as Detronius-VII. Every day on that world along ten thousand assembly lines servitors and menials assemble chasiss, components, bodies and put them together as Engineseers march overhead from gantries supervising and praying to the Omnissiah to bless it's children's works.







Weighing in at 3 tonnes with a top speed of up to 250 km/h, the Destrier is heavily built and intended to be long lasting and durable. With proper maintenance and spare parts, some Destriers are still operating millennia after their manufacture. They are heavily built and can survive most roadway collisions and can be restored afterwards (even if the same can often not be said about their passengers, who often get crushed or incinerated). Most notable is that it is designed with consumer accessibility in mind. While not affordable to the average Hive Worlder or common worker on most worlds, local overseers, owners of small companies and a few skilled workers on civilized worlds can afford a new Destrier that's either made locally or was Forgeworld (higher quality but more expensive, unless a major shipment of tens of millions of them is delivered) produced when a shipment of them is delivered. Nobles will often buy Destriers on a regular basis, often buying new units every three or four years and selling them, with the vehicles passing down the social heirarchy. Others are given out as prizes in lotteries, gameshows or as rewards for productive individuals. Others are used by local Law Enforcement. A few of them are used by Astra Militarum forces as Staff Cars for high ranking officers and some PDF forces use modified Destriers as armored cars. Unfortunately on the same note many of them end up in the hands of Genestealer Cults or are Looted by Orkz which Kuztomize them into attack vehicles.







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