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UNION OF SOLAR REPUBLICS TS-04 DESTROYER-ESCORT/TRANSPORT(Version 1- Last Modified: Sunday February 26th, 2012)RPG Stats by Kodai Okuda (primeadministrator@nexusarcana.com) |
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UNION OF SOLAR REPUBLICS TS-04 DESTROYER-ESCORT/TRANSPORT(Version 1- Last Modified: Sunday February 26th, 2012)RPG Stats by Kodai Okuda (primeadministrator@nexusarcana.com) |
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GOVERNMENT:Union of Solar Republics
TYPE: Space Destroyer-escort/Transport shuttle
MODEL:Vest Factory #18 TS-04
DATE INTRODUCED: 2076 AD
DIMENSIONS:
Main Body: 140 feet long x 30 foot high x 20 feet wide.
Engine Pods: 70 feet long x 25 feet high x 25 feet wide.
MATERIAL: Composite-Alloy
POWER PLANT:
Hensai Energy HEFR-5000A
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts
ARMOR TYPE: Composite-Alloy
ARMOR THICKNESS:1 inch
DISPLACEMENT: 1000 tons
CREW: 74 (10 Pilots, 10 Technicians, 10 Electricians, 10 Engineers, 3 Gunners, 7 Officers, 4 Medical, 20 Pilots)
PROPULSION
FASTER THAN LIGHT :
2x Cydonia Research CR-TSWD-760
SPEED: .076 light years per hour
INTERPLANETARY:
4x Eurospace ES-ID-400
SPEED: 30,400 mph each (121,600 mph total)
WEAPONS:
PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
1xCydonia Research dual CR-EMPAC-80 electromagnetic particle accelerator cannon turret; Effective Range: 200 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system recharged by the shuttle's main reactor: ROF: up to 6 dual blasts per minute in individual discharges of 2 blasts.
PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
2xUNSC LC-120 laser cannon barbettes; Effective Range: 1200 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system recharged by the shuttle's main reactor. ROF: 3 blasts every twenty seconds for up to 9 blasts per minute.
ELECTRONICS:
1x Laser Communications array with a 1AU range.
1x Passive EMS array with a range of 500,000 miles.
1x Active EMS array with a range of 1000 miles.
1xAntigravity control system.
DEFENSE SYSTEMS:
6xCydonia Research CR-DF-300 omnidirectional deflector field generators; Range: 300 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 300 megawatts each; Output: 15 gigajoules with a regeneration of 1.5 gigajoules every ten seconds.
Description/Overview:
While not an improvement over its sister shuttle the AS-04, the TS-04 Transport Shuttle was a variant that had a very important and useful purpose. This ship was both a destroyer-escort like its sister ship and a BattleKnight transport. This transport was the brainchild of Chief Engineer Major Suvorov prior to the USR invasion of Mars. Alphonse Zhukov and Generalissimo Sulaco had determined that small assault shuttles like the AS-04 would have a much better chance of making it into the atmosphere of Mars to deploy their BattleKnight forces than the large easy targets that both the alien- and USR-built capital ships presented.
There was not time for Suvorov to develop a completely new ship design before the invasion of the Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos. Therefore, Major Suvorov made slight alterations to the main body of the ship and removed the anti-mecha missile batteries from the shuttle, which had proven to be useless at the Battle of Vesta in 2075 AD.
The rearrangement of internal systems and the moving of the cargo bay forward allowed Suvorov to shorten the overall length of the main body of the ship by ten feet and raise the rear quarter section of the primary hull by ten feet. This allowed for the storage and deployment of the 31.6-foot tall BattleKnights within a new shuttle hangar that Suvorov had fashioned out of the old hull and cargo bay.
This new bay held its complement of twenty 5-ton BKs in two rows of ten units (slightly hunched over) on both sides of the hangar. The hangar was extremely cramped. Only a small catwalk/gantry, three feet in width and at the cockpit level of the BattleKnights, ran along the length of the hangar bay to allow pilots and technicians access to the machines while on board the transport shuttle. While unloading the mecha was a simple matter due to a conveyor in the floor of the bay that rolled each row of BattleKnights out the back of the shuttle one at a time in a staggered drop (one unit from each conveyor belt at a time), loading the mecha back up again was an entirely different matter. Unloading took less than a minute while loading the machines back into the shuttle required an hour
or more as each unit had to be positioned back in its respective clamps on the conveyor belt and rolled back into the ship.
Other than the hangar bay and the removal of the missile launchers, the TS-04 was identical in nearly every way to the standard AS-04. In fact, the USR did not give this AS-04 variant its own designation until well after the 1st Interplanetary War was over. These shuttles were simply referred to as AS-04 carriers or dropships to indicate that they were TS-04 models.
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