SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Protean Interceptor
MODELS: Epsilon Indi Industrial PI-FW-Ta283
DATE INTRODUCED: 2178 AD

DIMENSIONS:

(Fighter Mode):

LENGTH:43 feet (13.1 meters)
WIDTH: 29.2 feet (8.9 meters)
HEIGHT: 8.9 feet (2.7 meters)

(Robot Mode):

LENGTH: 14 feet (4.3 meters)
WIDTH: 21 feet (6.5 meters)
HEIGHT: 26 feet (8 meters)

MATERIAL: Crystal Composite Alloy
POWER PLANT: 2x Tartarian Technologies TT-50NB Nuclear Battery
OUTPUT: 50 Megawatts each (100 megawatts)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 2 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 10 tons
CREW: 1 Pilot

PROPULSION:

             PRIMARY MANEUVER/COMBAT ENGINE (EITHER MODE):
             2x Tyche Industries TI-IPFE-15 Ion Plamsa Fusion Engine (Level-02)
             SPEED: KiloMACH 50 each (10,556 miles per second each, 21,111 miles per second)

             SECONDARY MANEUVER/COMBAT ENGINE (ROBOT MODE):
             8x Tyche Industries TI-IE-01 Ion Engine (Level-03)
             SPEED: MACH 1 each (760 miles per hour each, 6080 miles per hour)

             PRIMARY (WALKER):
             1x Epsilon Indi Industrial EII-WE-20KW
             SPEED: 25 mph

WEAPONS:

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
             2x Diana Dynamics DD-IB-02 Rapid Fire Ion Blaster Cannons; Effective Range: 20 miles payload: unlimited with 20-megawatt nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: one blast per second.

             PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
            1x Isis Industries II-EMPAC-08 8 megawatt Electromagnetic Particle Accelerator Cannon gunpod; Effective Range: 40 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch (repowerd from fighter); ROF: one blast per 2 seconds, has a cyclic rate of up to 30 blasts per minute.

              (WING MOUNTED, EACH WING)

              1x Siminov Systems MML-1064 sixty-four-shot Long Range Missile launcher pod; Effective Range: 422 miles; Payload: 192 mini-missiles; ROF: 1-64 per 2-seconds; TARGETING: RADAR array with 500-mile range

              1x Kalashnikov Arms MML-1044 forty-four-shot Long Range Missile Launcher pod; Effect Range: 422 miles; Payload: 352 mini-missiles; ROF: 1-44 per 2-seconds; TARGETING: LADAR array with 100-mile range

              1x Dragnov Heavy Industries DML-508 eight-shot Long Range Missile Launcher pod; Effective Range: 2111 miles; Payload: 120 50lbs medium size missile;ROF: 1-8; TARGETING: LADAR array with 100-mile range; DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS: 8-shot anti-missile mini-missile bomblets (5lbs each); PAYLOAD: 800; ROF: 1-8 every 2-seconds.

ELECTRONICS:
             1x Microwave Communications array with a 4000-mile range.
             1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 20,000-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 500-mile range.
             1x LADAR Sensor array with a 100-mile range.
             1x Passive EMS sensor array with a 500-mile range.
             1x Multispectral video/optical array with a range of 1000 miles.
             1x Transformation Unit

DEFENSE SYSTEMS:            
              1x Sophia Systems SS-5EEFF-40 Electron Element Force Field omnidirectional generator; Range: 20 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 40 megawatts; Output: absorbs up to 28,800 gigajoules, 28.8 terajoules of energy weapon damage (regenerates 4800 gigajoules per 4.8 seconds).

              44x 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:
            After the PS-01 Protean Fighter was mass produced by the Jovian Defense Forces and then other Protean Fighter types in the Colonial Confederacy, the Council on Stellar Reliations knew they needed their own types of Protean mecha. After the success of the PA-He162, the CSR contracted LaGrange to build the PI-FW-TA283 Protean Interceptor in late 2178. The idea being that the PI-FW-TA283 could compete with the PI-02 Raven. Mass production of the PI-FW-TA283 began in early 2180 as the situation with the Ceres Regency became more strained. The CSR however chose not to use their Protean mecha in the Ceres Conflict or Outer Sphere War due to a lack of properly trained pilots. Like all of the Protean mecha built by the CSR in the late 2170s, the PI-FW-TA283 was obsolete by time of the Outer Sphere War, and so the Tartarian military relegated the Interceptor to "Ghost" status, meaning that it would be piloted primarily by Tartarian built android pilots. Therefore, the PI-FW-TA283 Interceptors used during the Ross 47 conflict that would lead into the 2nd Interplantary War were all considered "Drone" or "Ghost" mecha.