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With a estimated cost of five hundredone millionbillion dollars per craft, the ''Gridrunner'' can carry (in its original configuration) one hundred troops and their equipment, or forty and a support vehicle. The ''Gridrunner'' has a special interior modular design that allows ground crews to quickly swap out interior sections according to specific mission profiles.

The specialized avionics package aboard the ''Gridrunner'' is priced at roughly two hundred and fifty million dollars: this includes a liquid-based, onboard artificial intelligence hardened against outside interference and EMP’s, which can act as an autopilot and complete a flight without a pilot (but optimally requires a passenger in the pilot seat to give simple instructions). The designers were able to circumvent several major problems in the design process (such as metal fatigue and temperature variants in flight causing extreme wear on aircraft parts) by using Secondary Adamantium for the craft's outer skin, many of the aircraft parts, and as a coating for many other aircraft parts (to increase their lifespan). As part of the deal which allowed the Quest Corporation access to the creation process of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantium Adamantium] (among other things), The U. S. Government received thirty-four of the aircraft free of charge; four of those aircraft have been turned over to [[DELPHI]] for the organization's needs.

*Mark I - the half-scale prototype (three in existance).

*Mark II - standard troop transport with specialized seating for high-G maneuvers at transonic speed.

*Mark III - heavystandard vehicle transport; canwith carryspecialized twobrackets hundred men andfor two support vehicles.

In addition, the ''Gridrunner'' tasked for Legion use is an advanced version of the Mark VI. Reverse-engineered and upgraded by USAES engineering and aviation cadets in cooperation with Quest Corporation technical staff, the ' ''Gridrunner-A'' ' is the most advanced version of the craft to date, with a significantly-reduced price-tag even with her radically-advanced features). At an estimated cost of just under one hundredpoint fiftyfive millionbillion dollars, she is faster (cruising speed of Mach 8), has a more advanced onboard A.I., sensory/communications-electrical countermeasures and electrical warfare package, and comes with the capability to operate outside the Earth's atmosphere. Among the enhanced capabilities of the ''Gridrunner-A'':

*An exotic 'power conversion chamber' has been created for installation, which will allow Legionnaires with the appropriate ablitiesabilities to act as a 'power source' to allow the ''Gridrunner-A'' to travel into space. TheTheoretically, the craft has the ability to make a trip to the Moon and return to Earth. However, this is expected to generate serious exhaustion in those the provide energy.

*The ''Gridrunner-A'' is also equipped with a unique 'atmospheric processor unit', which can create breathable gases and regulate the environment within the craft. The craft uses a standard Water Recovery System of the same type used on the International Space Station. When in use, both the PCC, APU, and the APUWRS givesgive the craft an effectively unlimited operational capability (based upon the nutritional needs of the crew and passengers).