Editing Harvester (section)

===Agriculture===
====Mega-Harvester====
[[File:Silo_Crawler.JPG|300px|right|thumb|The Harvester. Not currently looking too hot. Also, Christ, what a waste of fucking grain!]]
Looking like a drunken three-way between a Combine Harvester, a grain silo and a food processing plant. The Mega-Harvester was first mentioned in the Short Story, Our Lord on Terra, however, they made their first appearance in the [[Marneus Calgar|Papa Smurf: Origins Comic]] as a mobile factory plant, on threads. At 54.8 meters wide, its large size and multi-use capability of its whirring autoblades of its slash-threshers allow these vehicles to essentially harvest, process and manufacture foodstuff all in one compact and mobile platform.

Their separator discs then ensure that only the grain is placed into three immense hoppers that make up the bulk of the Mega-Harvester's rears. Each hopper is capable of holding five hundred tons of grain and any non-grain material collected, is expelled through the Mega-Harvester's rear ejectors. This is done with enough force, that anyone standing behind the vehicles can be seriously injured by the impact. On Nova Thulium, Grain Harvesters were a standard vessel used to reap the yearly crops to feed neighbouring Hive World, Ardium. This allows the Imperium to easily reduce vulnerable strategic supply chains and cheapens the cost of maintenance on roads, electric cables and other forms of immobile structures in conventional farmlands.

It also allows for mass harvesting of crop yield on the ton, quickly shortening the harvest period by a significant fraction, whilst the smaller [[Land Crawler|Land Crawlers]] would assist in reaping small patches of crops that were missed from these ECKS BAWKS HUEG vessels. The Mega-Harvesters can be manually steered within the vehicles' control cabins or they can be set upon pre-determined routes. They are also armed with [[Harpoon Launcher]]s and crude [[Rotor Cannon]]s, to ward off potential attacks.

There is a catch, however. Because it is a Combine Harvester, a grain silo and a food processing plant all in one neat package, they are a vulnerable target for marauders and pirates. You disable one of these machines and there goes an 8th of the entire planet's food production. In the comics, Papa Smurf witnessed an example of one of these ships being thoroughly krumped by [[Cultist|Chaos Cultists]] before intervening and saving the machine from further harm.

*'''Height:''' 38.4m
*'''Width:''' 54.8m
*'''Length:''' 60.3m
*'''Mass:''' 60-70 kilotonnes; approx
*'''Crew:''' 400-500 crew; approx
*'''Max Speed:''' 2-8kph; approx