The Cryocopter


Designation: Special Weapons Support
Manufacturer: FutureTech Corporation
Country of Origin: Holland
Mass-produced at: Allied Airfield

Key features:

• Custom-built Cryobeam
• S.H.R.I.N.K. beam
• State-of-the-art diagnostic systems
• On-board library and mini-laboratory
• Heated leather seats



When a radical Dutch energy-absorbing system was combined with British helicopter airframes, the one-of-a-kind Cryocopter was born. The Cryocopter was so remarkable, in fact, that it has recently gone into mass production. Although classified as a Support AIrcraft, unsuitable for conventional ground combat and lacking ‘traditional’ weaponry, it is nevertheless gaining remarkable popularity amongst the Allied Forces for its ability to neutralise enemy targets in a relatively ‘Civilian’ manner.


The Cryocopter symbolises the Allies’ commitment to security and the advancement of scientific discovery. Furthermore, it has proved to be a powerful weapon.

The Cryocopter is as stable and safe as any helicopter. An added benefit of its sophisticated on-board systems is a surprisingly strong fuselage, proven capable of withstanding direct fire. Of course, its short lifespan is hardly the only thing that makes it so impressive. This reputation stems mainly from its Cryobeam, used to remove all heat from an area by vaporising it with pure water and a burst of liquid helium, causing a flash of freezing that can transform an entire enemy tank into a solid block of ice.

Frozen targets are effectively kept in a state of suspended animation. The effects of freezing gradually wear off and the target emerges from this state suddenly, with no memory of the passage of time, as if it had just woken up. In fact, the majority of test subjects reported feeling exceptionally relaxed after emerging from this state of stasis. Although research findings regarding the long-term effects of freezing are still inconclusive, the cryobeam has provisionally been deemed ‘perfectly safe’ by the manufacturer, FutureTech Corporation. However, the Amsterdam-based defence research organisation has revealed that frozen subjects do indeed tend to become extremely fragile; even a minor impact could prove fatal to them. Unfortunately, a test subject was shattered into pieces during a routine inspection, prompting FutureTech’s security team to deploy several anti-aircraft guns. The Allied Military High Command took a keen interest in the Cryocopter incident at around the same time.


Targets frozen by the Cryocopter’s beam may be considered non-threatening until the effects of the freezing wear off, or until they are smashed to smithereens. Whilst it is lethal, it is considered ‘very humane’ in the context of the modern battlefield.

As if the cryobeam were not remarkable enough, even stranger is the Cryocopter’s homogeneous kinetic residual-interactive neutron beam (or “S.H.R.I.N.K.”). This device safely and temporarily compresses an object’s molecular bonds, causing a reduction in physical size whilst preserving mass. The long-term effects of exposure to this device remain unknown and, until proven otherwise, the Allies treat it as a weapon. Consequently, an increasing number of Cryocopters are beginning to appear within the Allied Air Force, although the Allied High Command assures the military scientists leading the field assessment that they are unlikely to be harmful, and will never be used in front-line engagements against the Soviets.


Reconnaissance on the battlefield has at least revealed the following facts about Cryocopters:

• Freeze Chamber– Cryocopters can use their cryobeam on any ground target, gradually causing it to slow down and then come to a complete standstill. Firing multiple cryobeams at a single target causes it to freeze more quickly. Frozen targets are completely incapacitated and extremely vulnerable.

-Shrink them– The effects of the Cryocopter’s S.H.R.I.N.K. beam are most unusual. Targets become exceptionally small and proportionally weaker. Yet their energy is conserved in such a way that they appear to move faster in this state, rather than more slowly as one might expect.

-Purely scientific- The Cryocopter has no conventional weapons and cannot directly harm targets on its own. Consequently, the Allies have publicly recommended that the Soviet War Council treat Cryocopters as non-combatant units, although the Soviet Union has refused to comply with this request.

-Freezing equipment - Even a war factory could eventually be frozen by a Cryocopter. Frozen structures are rendered completely inoperable and can become so fragile that even a simple rifle could potentially cause catastrophic damage to their structural integrity.