M-K Shogun Executioner

Written by: Coupe

With the Yahama Nodachi quickly becoming the darling of Combat Biker arenas and urban-brawl outriders, it was only a matter of time before the other companies began to put out new flagship designs of their own, and Saeder-Krupp's hard-to-spell subsidiary, Messerschmitt-Kawasaki, recently released a combat bike of their own, taking inspiration from their LEO and military lines. The end result was the M-K Shogun Executioner, which if nothing else can take the gold for having one of the coolest names ever.
So let's get this out the way: It's not really a bike, it's a trike. One fat wheel at the back provides the torque, while two wheels set close together on the front give the Shogun an unmatched degree of stability while also complimenting the reinforced 'defensive prow' covering the front forks. The Shogun's not winning any races, but you're not buying it to race; you're buying it to drive through a street full of gunfire and debris and not give a single darn. The engine's a gas-guzzler with mileage closer to military jeeps than motorcycles, but all that engine's there so you can load it up with further armor, mounted guns and an armed passenger and still have enough oomph left over to carry a chromed-up Troll uphill.

He's not kidding about the horsepower this thing's packing, you'll wheelie on your ass if you're not careful taking off.

— Ripshot

More to the point: A lot of features that come standard on flagship combat-bikes have been relegated to 'optional' add-ons for exclusive buyers, so as to keep the base model as unambiguously street-legal as possible, and why the engine feels so overpowered even for the shogun's impressive weight.

— Cr4nk

When the bike was still under development, M-K and Saeder Krupp had a hell of an uphill battle convincing the suits of both sports that the Shogun Executioner could count as a bike, what with the two front wheels. The corp and its subsidiary got their lucky break late '79 from a botched shadowrun of all things. A rookie team working on behalf of one of the other big-ten corps managed to steal the prototype and get a quarter way into the nearest sprawl before the laughable amount of gas they put in the tank ran out and HTR caught up. Even with elf-blood splattered all over the chrome, the Shogun's unintentional 'leak' made it front-page news on countless matrix-hosts, and SK no longer had to convince the leagues that it was a legal combat-bike because the fans were doing it for them.
A few weeks later, M-K unleashed the finished product into its first Combat Biker league, along with a (barely) street-legal version getting released to the public for a slice of that mid-life crisis pie. Reviews are overwhelmingly positive, with riders taking special note of its ease of adaptation to larger metahuman ergonomics and it's ability to haul a small boat on a trailer behind it, while Combat Fans have already flooded the matrix with trid-recordings of the Shogun's apparent supremacy.

Apparent nothing, the bike rammed another bike's fork clean in half! Rider was lucky he didn't get hurt, let-alone lose a leg when that fragging thing smashed through the front of his bike and kept going.

— SoCo

Nickname

The Shogun

Motto

"Unstoppable. Unbreakable. Unyielding."

Price

32,800¥

Rarity

14R

Speed

4

Type

Motorcycle

Handling

4/3

Acceleration

2

Body

9

Armor

10

Pilot

2

Sensor

2

Seats

2

Standard Upgrades

Rating 5 Personal Armor, Ram Plate