SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Tartarian Technocracy
TYPE: Protean Pursuit Fighter
MODELS: Epsilon Indi Industrial PP-DO335
DATE INTRODUCED: 2179 AD

DIMENSIONS:

(Fighter Mode):

LENGTH: 48.6 feet (14.8 meters)
WIDTH: 49.6 feet (15.2 meters)
HEIGHT: 13.5 feet (4.1 meters)

(Robot Mode):

LENGTH: 15.4 feet (4.7 meters)
WIDTH: 16 feet (4.9 meters)
HEIGHT: 34.8 feet (10.6 meters)

MATERIAL: Crystal Composite Alloy
POWER PLANT: 4x Tartarian Technologies TT-50NB Nuclear Battery
OUTPUT: 50 Megawatts each (200 megawatts)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 2 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 30 tons
CREW: 1 Pilot

PROPULSION:

             FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE:
             1x TerranTech TTID-T6-03 Type-6 Intersection Drive Unit
             SPEED: 0.50 light-years per hour time dilation

             PRIMARY MANEUVER/COMBAT ENGINE (EITHER MODE):
             2x Tyche Industries TI-IPFE-12 Ion Plasm Fusion Engine (Level-03)
             SPEED: KiloMACH 20 each (4222 miles per second each, 8444 miles per second total)

             SECONDARY MANEUVER/COMBAT ENGINE (ROBOT MODE):
             2x Tyche Industries TI--3M High Yield Ion Engine (Level-03)
             SPEED: MACH 10 each (7600 miles per hour each, 15,200 miles per hour)

             PRIMARY (WALKER):
             1x Epsilon Indi Industrial EII-WE-72KW Walker Engine
             SPEED: 30 mph

WEAPONS:

             PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
             2x Diana Dynamics DD-IB-10 Ion Blaster Cannons; Effective Range: 50 miles; Payload: unlimited with 10-megawatt nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 1 blast per 10 seconds.

             PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
            1x Isis Industries II-523-HVAC six-barrel 40-millimeter hyper-velocity autocannon gunpod; Effective Range: 87 miles; Payload: 2400-round autoloading mechanical tray; ROF: fires bursts of 6, 12, 18, or 24 rounds and has a cyclic rate of up to 720 rounds per minute.

             PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
             1x Tyche Industrial TI-BS192 Beam Saber (Level-02); Effective Range: contact; Payload: unlimited with 192-megawatt nuclear battery; ROF: as per the pilot, usually about one swing every two seconds.

              (WING MOUNTED, EACH WING)
               3x 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.

             2x 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 2000-mile range.
             1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 20,000-mile range.
             1x SLV Communications array with a 1 light-year 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 Passive EMS sensor array with a 10,000-mile range.
             1x Active EMS sensor array with a 1000-mile range.
             1x SLV sensor array with a 1 Parsec 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).

              22x 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 culmination of everything learned from the previous Protean Fighters was incorporated into the first Protean Pursuit fighter. The fighter designation indicated a Protean mecha fitted with a faster than light drive giving it the ability to pursue an enemy that had attempted escape via hyperspace. The Tartarian Protean mecha engineers at Tyche had samples of all four of the Protean mecha built by the Neo-Hebrews of Saturn by AD 2178 and had fashioned the PP-DO335 from all of this data. They wanted a fighter capable of performing planetary assault missions like the PF-04U CosmoCorsair, general purpose space superiority like the PS-01 Archangel, interceptor capabilities like the PI-02 Raven, and heavy bombardment like the PA-03 Shinden. The PP-DO335 did in fact peform all of those missions adequately, albeit not quite as good as each of the Neo-Hebrew mecha. The Tartarians however wanted a single machine that could peform all of those tasks due to their limited resources and manufacturing capabilities in 2179. The PP-DO335 was a VERY successful Protean mecha and was used to great effect both in the Ross 47 conflict and the 2nd Interplanetary War. It was used for many years after the 2nd Interplanetary War into the 23rd Century.