SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Protean Attack Fighter
MODELS: Epsilon Indi Industrial PA-He162
DATE INTRODUCED: 2178 AD

DIMENSIONS:

(Fighter Mode):

LENGTH:32.4 feet (9.9 meters)
WIDTH: 33.5 feet (10.2 meters)
HEIGHT: 8.2 feet (2.5 meters)

(Robot Mode):

LENGTH: 12.8 feet (3.9 meters)
WIDTH: 17.7 feet (5.4 meters)
HEIGHT: 30.4 feet (9.4 meters)

MATERIAL: Crystal Composite Alloy
POWER PLANT: Tartarian Technologies TT-36NB Nuclear Battery
OUTPUT: 36 Megawatts
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 2 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 3 tons
CREW: 1 Pilot

PROPULSION:

             PRIMARY MANEUVER/COMBAT ENGINE (EITHER MODE):
             1x Tyche Industries TI-IPFE-04 Ion Plamsa Fusion Engine
             SPEED: KiloMACH 133 (28,098 miles per second)

             PRIMARY (WALKER):
             1x Epsilon Indi Industrial EII-WE-6KW
             SPEED: 25 mph

WEAPONS:

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
             2x Diana Dynamics DD-RFEMPAC-10 Rapid Fire Electromagnetic Particle Accelerator Cannons; Effective Range: 5 miles payload: unlimited with 10-megawatt nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: one blast per second.

             PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
             1x Isis Industries II-154-HVAC quad 15-millimeter hyper-velocity autocannon gunpod; Effective Range: 16 miles; Payload: 1600-round autoloading mechanical tray; ROF: fires bursts of 4, 8, or 16 rounds and has a cyclic rate of up to 960 rounds per minute.

            OUTSIDE ORDINANCE:

            (WING MOUNTED, EACH WING)

            1x LaGrange Aerospace  LA-ML103 missile launcher; Missile Type: uses LaGrange MARK-76 medium-range missiles with 10lb, LADAR guided warhead; Effective Range: 282.9 miles; Payload: 12 missiles; ROF: 1, 2 or 3 missiles within two seconds.
           
            1x Norking SRML-100-16HG heavy ground type missile launcher-pod (Shoulder Mounted); Missile Type: SRM-02 heavy short-range ground-assault missile with 100-pound computer-guided warhead; Effective Range: 20.8 miles; Payload: 16 missiles; ROF:1-4 missiles within two seconds.
           
ELECTRONICS:
             1x Microwave Communications array with a 1500-mile range.
             1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000-mile range.
             1x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Spacecraft type g-compensation unit modified to act as an inertia maneuvering system in place of vector control thrusters
             1x RADAR Sensor array with a 50-mile range.
             1x Passive EMS sensor array with a 1000-mile range.
             1x Multispectral video/optical array with a range of 1000 miles.
             1x Transformation Unit

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:            
              1x Sophia Systems SS-5EEFF Electron Element Force Field omnidirectional generator; Range: 2.5 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 5 megawatts; Output: absorbs up to 3600 gigajoules, 3.6 terajoules of energy weapon damage (regenerates 600 gigajoules per 8 seconds).

              32x Sophia Systems SS-AM4 4-shot 2-pound anti-missile bomblets; Effective Range: 200 yards; Payload: 40 bomblets each; ROF: 1-4 bomblets per discharge with a cyclic rate of 120 bomblets per minut.
                 
Description/Overview:
            The introduction of the PS-01 Protean Fighter by the Jovian Defense Forces and then other Protean Fighter types in the Neo-Hebrews of Saturn, caused panic in the Council on Stellar Reliations in the late 2170s. They knew they needed their own type of Protean fighter, and quickly. Therefore, a transformable mecha program was started in 2178 and the first production model was the PA-He162 built at the end of the 1st Interplanetary War. The CSR mass produced this Protean Attack fighter for planetary assault, and base defense forces. By the time of the Outer Sphere War, the PA-He162 was considered obsolete, and so the Tartarian military relegated the fighter to "Ghost" status, meaning that it would be piloted primarily by Tartarian built android pilots. Therefore, the PA-He162 fighters used during the Ross 47 conflict that would lead into the 2nd Interplantary War were all considered "Drone" or "Ghost" mecha.