MG144-YR002 Ghyla-Heelene Platoon (3)

Yrgynela

Ghyla-Heelene “Jeye-la heee-lee-nee” 1:144th ascale (10 or 12mm)

Three Ghyla-Heelenes with their turret form. (Simply swap the turret over).

Provided with three  Aalya  (Aaa-l-ya) Pattern Doohlahne “Doohl-ah-nee” OO Turrets and one Yylya – Beta (Yi-l-ya) Pattern Doohlahne “Doohl-ah-nee” OO Turret.

The legs are designed for ball-and socket joints that do not require glueing (push them in until they snap into place) and thus are posable. I recommed painting the balls and inside of the sockets (as the fit can be a little loose), thought they can be glued if desired.


The Ghyla-Heelene seems to serve as the backbone of the ground forces encountered. Once again, the station the Agamemnon band encountered suggests from the proportion of furniture that they are possibly more numerous than the Narya-Melan, something that is at least convergently true of the combat forces.

The Ghyla-Heelene appear most similar to the Sya-Heelene in structure, with the obvious difference that they are over three times the size. They do not have any flight capability and appear rather more ponderous. However, some of this is likely a facet of the Ghyla-Heelenes observed so far have all been in their heavy combat armour. Furthermore, they are still quite agile for a creature of their size, even when so encumbered.

The Ghyla-Heelenes have six weapon mounting points, three either side of the head. These have so far been seen to mount plasma-pulse anti-infantry guns. However, from the analysis of the one corpse recovered indicates that these weapons are not, as initially believed fixed, but can be changed out and potentially replaced with other weapons or even tools.

Situated between each leg is an independently mobile emitter. These produce a long beam of energy which is functionally an energy blade like a large power sword. These "slashing beams" appear to be a "natural" fixture – i.e. not part of the combat armour loadout and seem to function as a way to deal with creatures (like humanoids) which might seek to get underneath the belly of the Ghyla-Heelene where she would be unable to reach them as easily. Due to their inherent sensors, the Ghyla-Heelenes can easily "see" such creatures and slashing beams have sufficient mobility to be able to slice apart anyone underneath them. These systems are powerful enough to be a concern for lighter vehicles.

The combat armour the Ghyla-Heelenes have been seen using consists of heavy armoured legs plates and an upper superstructure which carries shield generators. The armour is shaped such the Ghyla-Heelenes can retract their heads into the torso (not unlike a turtle withdrawing into its shell) pull their legs in and lock the armour plates to form obelisk-like structure, with the dorsal turret left on top, essentially becoming more of a fortification. In this stance, they gain the most protection from the armour and the smaller area also reduces the volume the shields have to cover, which raises their strength.

The top of the torso has a large socket which appears to be capable of mounting a wide variety of devices, the most obvious is which is the mounting of a turret along with the standard armour plate.

The Ghyla-Heelenes have been spotted using two turrets, which also seem to be shared with the Narya-Melans. These have been identified as a family of turrets designated as Doohlahne ("Doohl-ah-nee") 00. The 00 appears to be a binary number (so is more correctly "Zero Zero" Romanised). Three versions have been observed, labelled Aalya–, Yylya– and Milya– patterns. This appears to be a standard sequence of sorts. It is unclear whether this sequence is numbers, letters or a hold-over from another language, but appears to be analogous to the use of Greek letters (i.e. alpha, beta, gamma).

The Ghyla-Heelenes have been observed using the Aayla- and Yylya- pattern turrets, of which the former is the most common (and pictured here). This consists of two plasma-pulse cannons supplemented by two small omnidirectional particle beams for point-defence.

The Yylya-pattern turret is less commonly seen, seemingly reserved for command units or support sections. This has a single plasma-pulse cannon. At the top, two coaxial anti-infantry plasma-pulse cannons are mounted. Underneath the main gun is a small missile launcher. This holds four Quoolych 10 (that is "qu-ooo-ly-ch One-Zero", not "qu-oo-litch Ten") missiles. Finally, there are two point-defence bulbs on either side of the turret. These bulbs act as omnidirectional missile launchers for point-defence.

It is assumed that the Ghyla-Heelenes could mount a Milya-pattern turret, though none have been seen doing so; the larger, bulkier turret would likely further hamper their agility.