Editing Elephant (fiction)

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The '''Heavy Recovery Vehicle''' or '''"Elephant"''' is a line of heavy Mobile Assault, Support, and Recovery (MASR) platforms developed and manufactured by [[JOTUN Heavy Industries]].{{Ref/Book|Id=visual|EVG|Page=55}}{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=145}}

==Summary==
The Elephant is a large, multi-role land vehicle propelled by an array of treads positioned at the front-left, front-right, rear-left, and rear-right of the vehicle. The M312 achieves this by only using four treads total{{Ref/Game|Id=HW|HW|Elephant in-game unit}} while the M313's are divided into pairs, operating via eight treads total.{{Ref/Game|Id=H3|H3|Elephant in-game vehicle}} The Elephant was originally built by JOTUN Heavy Industries for use in utility and farming industries during early colonial expansion periods. JOTUN was later contracted by the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] after several decades in the [[civilian]] market to develop and produce the Elephant as an [[wikipedia:armoured recovery vehicle|armored repair and recovery vehicle]].{{Ref/Reuse|visual}} These Heavy Recovery Vehicles have since become a versatile platform fulfilling a variety of military roles. Elephants are specialized as mobile recovery platforms but can also serve as troop deployment platforms, mobile command bases, and even urban garbage transports.

==Types==
*'''[[M312 Elephant]]''' - Variant featuring a "lock down" mode to serve as a mobile [[Forward Operating Base]]. The {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} utilized M312s during the [[Battle of Trove|Battle of]] [[Trove]], and were crewed by what are believed to the first modern [[humans]] to have encountered the [[flood]].
*'''[[M313 Elephant]]''' - Variant capable of transporting smaller ground vehicles such as the [[M274 Mongoose]] and [[M12 Warthog]]. Two M313s, nicknamed "Behemoth" and "Leviathan", are present on the [[War Games]] map [[Sandtrap]].
**'''[[Olifant]]''' - Variant of M313 Elephant used as a civilian waste management vehicle. The presence of Olifants played a pivotal role during the [[Battle of Mombasa|Battle of]] [[Mombasa]], specifically in the immediate aftermath of the [[Slipspace]] [[Battle_of_Mombasa#After_the_Slipspace_Event|Event]], involving [[Sadie Endesha]]'s escort and later [[Alpha-Nine#Battle_of_Mombasa|Alpha-Nine]]'s retrieval of a mission critical [[Quick to Adjust|asset]].
*'''[[M318 Elephant]]''' - Presumed to be the latest model of Heavy Recovery Vehicle.{{Ref/Reuse|visual}}

==Related vehicles==
In addition to Elephants the UNSC also employs at least two different kinds of six-wheeled, heavy land vehicles, both named after extinct relatives to the Elephant.
*[[M510 Mammoth]] - Mobile Anti-Aircraft Weapons Platform. This weapon platform is currently the largest known terrestrial armored fighting vehicle used by the United Nations Space Command.
*[[M650 Mastodon]] - Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) primarily utilized by the [[UNSC Army]] and colonial defense forces.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:HW M312Elephant.png|M312 Heavy Recovery Vehicle.
File:H3 Sandtrap Elephant.jpg|M313 Heavy Recovery Vehicle.
File:H3ODST Olifant.jpg|Olifant.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 3]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''
**''[[Sadie's Story]]''
*''[[Halo Wars]]''
*''[[Halo: Divine Wind]]''
*''[[Halo: Envoy]]''
*''[[Halo: New Blood]]''
*''[[Halo: Spartan Assault]]''
*''[[Halo: Spartan Strike]]''

==Sources==
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{{Human vehicles}}