Storm Trencher: change of the original design?

[micmellon]

One thing I was always curious about is reason how it happened that the Storm Trencher got para-deploy units and no jump pack units like the Banshees.

When I take a look on the pictures and the never released but existing models of the Storm Trencher it is for me obvious that the unit was original designed to have jump packs.
What was the reason to skip this fantastic idea and to change them to para-deployment units?
Was the original design too strong and off-balance or was the idea to keep the unique feature of Capitol?

Does anybody from the core team remember how this change happened?

[Jase]

I'm not sure of the background behind it personally, but I remember a bit of a fiction and accompanying artwork in the Imperial sourcebook for the Mutant Chronicles rpg. The piece describes a "grav-shute" being used and the artwork shows it to be a backpack contraption consisting of fuel tanks and retro rockets used to slow descent.

This is quite possibly the idea behind giving Storm Trenchers para-deploy; they use these grav-shutes to air drop from a great hieght on the battlefield, controlling their descent by firing the rockets.

That's what I think.

Jase