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PNZR-113A
Robot
Germany/Villain
10 November 1938
30 April 1945
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History
In late 1938, a group of German engineers answered a demand for heavily armored battlefield suits capable of turning infantry into unstoppable assault troops. Their first designs proved unusable; the armor was simply too massive for a human body to operate effectively. Rather than abandon the project, the engineers pursued a more radical solution: a remotely controlled robotic war unit housed within the suit itself.
The result was Panzerkrieger, model PNZR-113A, a towering steel battlefield machine operated by radio control and guided by a team of engineers using primitive television feeds, radar interpretation, and vacuum-tube programming systems.
Early field testing proved that Panzerkrieger was terrifyingly effective in direct assaults. It could endure devastating punishment, smash armored vehicles, and fire explosive cannon blasts from both gauntlets. But it had a crippling weakness: preparing it for action required long, exhausting programming sessions, and once deployed, it could not easily adapt to unexpected battlefield changes. If events unfolded outside its programmed parameters, Panzerkrieger often continued its course until the routine concluded or the machine was physically stopped.
Because of this, Panzerkrieger was best suited for carefully planned operations. Throughout WWII, Baron Berlin and Axis Force used it as a siege breaker, shock weapon, convoy crusher, and heavy transport unit. In addition to combat missions, Panzerkrieger was frequently used to move stolen art, statues, and cultural treasures looted across Europe. As Germany’s defeat became increasingly certain, Baron Berlin secretly redirected many of these spoils into hidden storage sites, including remote salt mines, effectively stealing them for his own future ambitions.
In April 1945, Axis Force was summoned to Berlin and accused of treason against Hitler and the Reich. Panzerkrieger’s engineers were incapacitated, then forced to dismantle the machine and destroy the vacuum-tube systems and computing banks that served as its operational brain. Once the robot had been broken down, the support team was executed. Panzerkrieger’s damaged remains were then dumped into the Rhine River, where the machine was left forgotten beneath the current.
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Armor
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Panzerkrieger’s armor was extraordinarily durable, designed to endure battlefield punishment far beyond normal military hardware.
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Reports credited it with surviving multiple 500-pound bomb blasts with little or no meaningful loss of function.
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Strength
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Panzerkrieger possessed immense mechanical strength, capable of lifting more than 20 tons under optimal conditions.
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In close combat, its blows could crumple armored vehicles and punch through heavy plating just short of the thickness seen on major naval warships.
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Speed
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Though not agile, Panzerkrieger could build momentum like a living battering ram.
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Once underway, it could plow through obstacles, vehicles, and fortifications, eventually reaching speeds of up to 45 miles per hour.
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Cannon Gauntlets
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Each forearm housed a powerful cannon system capable of launching explosive blasts at a rate of roughly one shot every several seconds per gauntlet.
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Effective range was approximately half a mile.
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These weapons made Panzerkrieger deadly against fortifications, vehicles, and clustered infantry.
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Radar and Tracking System
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A crude helmet-mounted radar unit enabled detection of aircraft and major moving ground targets out to roughly 10 miles.
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Radar interpretation was not handled by the robot itself, but by its support crew through a separate mobile control console.
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Remote Control System
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Panzerkrieger was operated remotely by a seven-man active control team, supported by additional technicians.
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The control link had an approximate range of 5 miles. Using a primitive black-and-white television camera mounted in the helmet, the crew could see through the robot’s viewpoint within a 90-degree forward arc.
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The head could rotate widely, allowing the operators to scan the surrounding battlefield, though response speed and tactical flexibility remained limited.
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Operational Weakness
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Its greatest weakness was not armor or firepower, but inflexibility.
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Panzerkrieger required long preparation periods and extensive programming before deployment.
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Once committed, it was difficult to redirect in response to sudden battlefield changes, making it vulnerable to deception, terrain traps, signal disruption, or highly mobile opponents.
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PNZR-X (Modern)
AI-Operated Autonomous Android Reichsland/VillainRecently
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History
Panzerkrieger (I) was among the most feared mechanical assets fielded by Axis Force during World War II. Though immensely powerful, the original unit was limited by primitive remote-control systems, vacuum-tube logic, and the heavy burden of human support crews. When Hitler turned on Baron Berlin and Axis Force in April 1945, Panzerkrieger (I) was dismantled, its control systems destroyed, and its support staff executed. Its shattered remains were later discarded into the Rhine River.
In the decades that followed, fragments of the original machine were recovered by treasure hunters, salvagers, and later museum authorities. Much of the surviving armor and chassis debris eventually found its way into a historical display in Nuremberg, where it was treated as a relic of a darker age.
That changed when Baron Berlin and surviving members of Axis Force re-emerged after the collapse of their long-failed cryogenic imprisonment. During the rise of Reichsland and the violent seizure of power in Nuremberg and its surrounding region, Berlin demanded the creation of a new Panzerkrieger—not as a museum piece, but as a statement of rebirth.
Under Stuka’s direction, Reichsland engineers, military technicians, and data-theft specialists constructed PNZR-X, a fully modernized successor platform inspired by the legend of the original but fundamentally superior in every category that mattered. Rather than depend on remote operators, the new Panzerkrieger incorporated limited battlefield AI, advanced sensor fusion, autonomous tactical response, and direct verbal/electronic command compliance.
When the new machine was unveiled, it immediately proved the danger of its design. Within moments, its recognition and threat-classification systems identified an undercover G.U.A.R.D. operative in the crowd and terminated him before human overseers could react.
The message was unmistakable: Reichsland had not rebuilt a relic. It had built a thinking weapon.
Today, Panzerkrieger (II) serves as Reichsland’s premier autonomous combat android and one of Axis Force’s most visible modern enforcers. Publicly, it obeys Baron Berlin and Axis Force command authority. Secretly, Stuka embedded a deeper command override known only to himself, ensuring that if power ever fractures within Reichsland, Panzerkrieger (II) may decide more than battlefield outcomes.
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Armor
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Light yet monstrously strong heavy-weave composites provides physical and energy protection.
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Radiation protection is off the charts and does not affect anything mechanically in Panzerkrieger.
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Can take unearthly temperature-based attacks with no damage.
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Strength
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Panzerkrieger is monstrously strong, capable of lifting over 20 tons.
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His punches could penetrate armor just short of a battleship's armored hull
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Speed
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When Panzerkrieger got up to speed, it was like a bulldozer plowing under anything in its path, eventually reaching a maximum ground speed of 70 mph.
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Power Gauntlets
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Each gauntlet can fire amazingly powerful kinetic force charges up to 1/2 mile away at a rate of 1 shot per gauntlet every several seconds.
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Autonomous Controls
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Modern autonomic controls allow for Panzerkrieger to receive verbal and electronic commands from designated personnel, as well as perform per-ordered or pre-programmed actions, otherwise, the unit will default to protect itself from anything listed in its enemy database, protect those in its friendly database or otherwise perform default mission programming or 'return to base' protocols.
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Head and torso can rotate a complete 360 degrees to position itself to point at a target.
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Tracking and Sensors
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The tracking system suite is based on some of the most modern satellite controlled, GPS positional operations. When combating aerial or range contacts outside of melee range, Panzerkrieger has 2 times the agility to track and attack the target(s). He can track up to 100 targets and automatically assign prioritized attack patterns through complex combat algorithms.
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It also houses a vast array of sensors, providing everything from atmospheric monitoring to terrain mapping, combat sequencing and database-driven alert monitoring.
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Electronics/Software Package
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The unit is protected with an unearthly level of ECM protection and/or electronic overriding. As such, its systems and controls are protected more than the chassis of the unit itself.
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It has full capabilities to access the internet, satellite communications and tracking and a full range of access to video, audio and visual frequencies, capable of recording and/or transmitting images, sound (even focused listening with its sensors) as well as displaying tactical imagery used by it's onboard computers during combat.
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Contains a powerful 800 Petabyte database with facial recognition software. Using this software, it has an unearthly ability to identify any person in the database within seconds.
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