Talon and Deep Eyes

Here the 50 ‘Assault’ Skylines were almost complete. These lacked the heavy armour and instead of machine-guns were bristling with rams, spikes and other ingenious devices to destroy a car at close range. These were the [I]Talons[/I]. Less lethal and dangerous than the barracuda’s which bristled with weaponry it’s driver would go about ramming and disabling a rival vehicle, intimidate an enemy and prevent it from closing in on the barracuda’s. Most of these were the R33 class of Skyline, a few were the R34 varient which took a slightly heavier frame.

Several members of the faction working stopped what they were doing as BCs conclave approached.
“That’ll do for now lads, get some food and rest for a while.” BC said. He’d been working the garage teams hard, from first light to last they’d spannered and modified vehicles for 7 days solid. They’d earned a rest and light duties now and he made a mental note to have them stood-down for a while.
They then went to check on the final branch of his factions machines.

It was a cloudy day but no rain threatened.
The previous day had seen heavy rainfall though and the ground was still damp and wet. In the compounds main clearance area was the DET Squad – The ‘Deep Eyes Trojans’ or just [I]Deep Eyes[/I] for short.
Waiting, with machines engines running they were growing impatient as they wished to be away soon.
Their Skylines were only lightly armour modified with a ‘double-skin’ of foam and carbon covering various areas and a fine wire mesh covering the windows.
Soloists, rovers and adventurers they were.
The Deep Eyes would operate in small groups or pairs for months at a time in enemy territory scouting and sneaking around like wolves. No-one was officially in command of them but only their loyalty to BC and Clan Skyliner kept them in check. It was he who personally gave them their assignments and realms to dwell in.
These machines bore no emplacements or assault devices for causing havoc from within.
Only what hand-weapons they carried in self-defence protected them.
Any one of the DET squad knew relying on their hand-guns was a chancy business in these violent times. Their only true defence was in their light-weight and RB 2.6 300 bhp + engines. Some had the less powerful RB25 DET NEO too as GTR Skylines were in short supply.
Engine-proofing and exhaust baffles for a reduced noise signature were standard as they would gather intel, maps and occasionally resources for the faction.
They were to the untrained eye, a factionless force.
They would be the clans eyes and ears, roving about and living among the other factions, sometimes openly as couriers-for-hire.
Only a subtle Japanese cipher and code-word would be their entry into and out of the base.