BOLO MK XXXI

Over the course of the thirty-third century, the galaxy slid with ever increasing speed into the maw of the "Last War's" gathering violence, and Bolos after the Mark XXX did not recieve the "type" names which had become customary with the Mark XV. The Mark XXXI was an enhanced Mark XXX with a main armament of one 200cm Hellbore 95 megatons/second). Secondary armament, though still referred to as "infinite repeaters," consisted of two lateral batteries of six 20 cm Hellbores each, and many small-caliber, hyper-velocity projectile weapons were retained for close-in defense and anti-personnel use. Indirect fire capacity was degraded in favor of the assault role, for which purpose the Mark XXXi's duralloy war hull was given an average thickness of 90 centimeters, rising to 1.5 meters for the glacis and turret faces. All secondary and tertiary weapons were mounted outside the "core hull" which protected the Mark XXXI's power plants and psychotronics, and last-generation internal disrupter shielding was used heavily. The Mark XXXI retained the counter-grav assist of the Mark XXX and, despite a weight increase to 19,000 tons, could match the precending mark's speed.

Some BOLO MK XXXI units:

Bolo Mark XXXI, Combat Unit B-403-MKY "Mickey", assigned to Operation Seed Corn; Commander: Lieutenant Guthrie Chin

Mickey and Chin were to escort a convoy of explorer/colonization/industrial ships into deeps space to find a safe place far from the Human versus Melconian war. Mickey and Chin were killed when a stealthed Melconian commando team managed to detonate a warhead in close proximity. As what often happened in Bolo/Commander relationships, Mickey and Lieutenant Chin were good friends.

Bolo Mark XXXI, Fifth Brigade (Unit ID Unknown)