The Whale King is a Sperm Whale-type Zoid created and used solely by the PAC.
When the battlefield becomes an immense area in a war between continents, it is essential for a transporter to carry a large quantity of Zoids at once. At half a kilometer long and capable of carrying 70 standard Zoids, the Whale King lives up to the King in its name. The giant Zoid can carry an entire division of troops and can move through either air or sea with ease. Though its enormous size and slow mobility make it unsuitable for direct combat, it is still heavily armoured and can protect the Zoids it carries. The Whale King has the ability to operate underwater, but the PAC is unwilling to risk this, as the Whale King would be unrecoverable by all but the EU's Ultrasaurus. The Whale King Romeo holds the World Record for Altitude, at 2,000km (Low Planetary Orbit), though the crew had to redline the engines and was only able to maintain their position for two hours, due to air supply. The only other Zoid capable of attaining anything near that height is the Pteras.
This is one huge Zoid, the largest production transport in the world. The Whale King, lives up to its name, as its quite literally the King that lords over all other Zoids. At half a kilometer long and capable of carrying 70 standard Zoids, the Whale King is truly a behemoth. However, the Great Whale King isn’t the absolute largest Zoid in the world; the Ultrasaurus beats it out by a few tens of thousands of cubic meters.
However, the Whale King is still the King. It has immensely thick armor, roughly on par with that of the Gujulas and stronger than the Hover Cargo. Both of these facts combined have seen the Whale King through years of service since the middle of WWIII; Whale Kings are often used to transport entire armored battalions in and out of battles.
While only three of these flying fortresses exist, rumor has it that the PAC is developing a new model of the Whale King that will have the ability to operate in space. To this day, no one can prove this rumor, though why else would the PAS suddenly be so interested in pushing the Operational Ceiling on the Whale King?
Statistics:
Minimum Crew Requirements: 75
Standard Crew: 350
Maximum Personnel: 800 ((That can be continuously supported and sustained by the Whale King.))
Height: 155.5 Meters
Length: 622 Meters
Weight: 2000 Tons (unloaded, estimate)
Maximum Speed: Mach .8/980 kph
Weapons:
720mm Electron Cannon,
Six Electron Mass Drivers,
Tri-Barrelled AZ80mm Heavy Cannon.
Equipment:
Catapult Launcher,
Crane,
Main Dry Dock,
Zoid Hangar.
Special Notes:
There are three different Whale King models:
Tango model: Basic Transport.
Romeo model: Whale King with weapons stripped and upgraded with the best sensors the PAC makes and stole/bought, creating a mobile recon platform able of detecting enemy Zoids from great distances, as well as providing Ebinay with real-time footage and the pilots with targeting info and battlefield updates. Similar to an E-3 Sentry AWACS.
Alpha model: Whale King stripped of all transport capabilities. The Alpha model has been modified to carry massive aerial firepower into a battlefield, similar to an AC-130 Gunship.
Alpha carries basic weapons plus additional weapons:
500 GBU-5 GPS bombs (10,000lbs of explosive)
Ten 20-inch chainguns with explosive rounds,
25 GBU-2 GPS bombs. (50,000lbs of explosives)
One 25mm chaingun for precision firing.
