[MOC] FNS Inferno Patrol Boat

[Laura Beinbrech]

In early 2078, several months after the final battle of the Final War triggered massive temporal storms that ravaged the earth, the survivors began to try rebuilding civilization.  One such group were survivors of the old North American Union military on the East Coast who founded what would in a few years become the Federal Republic of America, a bastion of hope & freedom in the post-war world.  Of course, they soon found themselves beset by enemies on all sides:  The authoritarian Grand Duchy of New York and Hordes of Chaos to the north, the fascist, human centric New Confederate States of America to the south, vicious bands of raiders in the arid lands west of the Mississippi and pirates & sea monsters in the Atlantic Ocean to the East.  Thus the new nation found itself at war & in need of ways to defend itself because war, war never changes....

One of the earliest efforts by the Federal Republic to defend its coastal waters was the conversion of abandoned cabin cruisers & other boats into ad-hoc patrol boats, one of which was the one that would eventually become the FNS Inferno.  After several years (and once the Republic's naval shipbuilding program got off the ground), the Inferno was taken in, stripped down to its bare hull, and rebuilt from the main deck up.  The hastily mounted twin .50 caliber machineguns on the front of the vessel were replaced with a 37mm manually-operated light auto-cannon mount and the aft single .50 cal was replaced with a 7.62mm minigun.  The overall shape of the superstructure was rebuilt similarly to how the old Higgs PT-boats from World War II were designed, and eventually the forward 37mm cannon was replaced by a DARDO dual-purpose twin auto-cannon turret (this particular choice of armament was heavily influenced by some of the orc technicians who had sought asylum in the Republic, citing "more dakka" as their reasoning for adding such firepower to a vessel of this class).  Thus the Inferno Class general purpose patrol craft were born:

Captain One-Eyed Willie at the master plot in the crew cabin of the Inferno (yes this is one big Goonies reference):


The business end of the Inferno featuring the DARDO 40mm mount & MK 51 heavy sonar guided torpedoes:


The Inferno's Brave Crew:

 

Anyways, I was up until 5am last night getting the forward gun mount to look right, and I hope you like it.

Edited July 19, 2020 by Laura Beinbrech