The Night Landing Craft, or N.L.C., is a small, sea-based weapons platform built around a sturdy inflatable raft. This vehicle, first put into service in the year 2001 by the Joes, is a green and black affair, has an effective material strength of 8 (for purposes of breaking it), and has these vehicular capabilities:

Communications Array: the N.L.C. is equipped with a 'super-frequency', frequency-wobbler radio system (and has dual transceiver antennas). This makes for intensity 5 communications power (with a 100 mile range) that has intensity 10 signal encryption - not bad at all, that.

Harpoon Launcher: mounted on the starboard (right) side of the Night Landing Craft, this weapon is great for latching onto enemy craft - or spearing an unlucky sailor. It can be fired to inflict damage per a +5 weapon, and can pierce objects of up to 12 material strength.

Lightning Speed: while it's not the fastest thing on the sea, the Night Landing Craft nonetheless gets by. It can travel on the waves at approximately forty five miles per hour, granting it an effective 'lightning speed' intensity of 3. Of course, since it's designed for nocturnal operation, its speed isn't too important...

Passengers: the Night Landing Craft isn't really built for mass transit, in that it's a relatively small aquatic vehicle. However, it does have room for one pilot and one navigator (or other passenger). Other folks can pile on the thing if seriously necessary, but it wouldn't be a comfortable ride...

Recovery Crane: this front-mounted hook, with a good fifty feet of steel cable attached to it, can be used by the N.L.C.'s pilot to drag sinking and/or abandoned craft along for the ride. The cable can pull tons of weight before snapping (material strength of 12).

Sensor Suite: the Night Landing Craft is equipped with a fully functional, military-grade Global Positioning System receiver, not to mention a wind gauge. This gear allows Cutter (or whoever else is piloting the N.L.C.) to navigate with pinpoint precision in the course of a mission.

Torpedo Launcher: on the port (left) side of the N.L.C. is a one-shot torpedo launcher. While it can only be shot once per mission (since the N.L.C. hasn't the room to carry spare torpedoes), this weapon is usually enough to sink smaller craft. These sonar-guided torpedoes inflict intensity 10 damage on impact.

Ultra-Candescent Lamps: this trio of lamps, mounted on the N.L.C.'s windshield, are powerful light casting implements capable of producing intensity 9 illumination. This helps to deal with night operations, and can provide an improvised blinding attack under certain (surprise) conditions.