Gamma-class Assault Shuttle
Name/Model# : | Gamma-class Assault Shuttle
Designer/Manufacturer : | Telgorn Corporation
Combat Designation : | Assault Shuttle
Scale : | Capital (Due to power output)
Length : | 30 Metres
Skill : | Capital ship piloting: Gamma-class Assault Shuttle
Crew Skill : | Capital ship gunnery 3D+2, capital ship piloting 5D and capital ship shields 4D
Crew : | 5 Crew 2 + Gunners 3
Skeleton Crew : | 1 (+10 DIFFICULTY)
Troop Capacity : | 40 Spacetroopers
Cost of Craft : | Not available for sale
Computers : | Telgorn Corp Twin-Tandem Flight Computers
Nav Computer : | Limited to 3 Hyperspace Jumps
Thrust Reactors : | Telgorn IA/4 Fusial Thrust Reactors
Sublight Speed : | 67 MGLT (WEG=8 Space Units)
Hyperdrive Rating : | Class 2
Hyperdrive Backup : | Class 18
Atmospheric Speed : | Most likely 1,050 kph (WEG=365) [Based on Beta-class Assault Shuttle and Gamma-class Light Personnel Carrier]
Manoeuvrability : | 2D
Cargo Capacity : | 5 Metric Tons
Consumables : | 1 Week
Power Systems : | Fabritech UL.2 Power Modulator Kel-Mar Steady State Power Coupler (To power Spacetrooper Armour)
Weapons : |
4 Turreted Taim & Bak KT6 Laser Cannons Crew: 2 cannons are handled by Gunner 1 and other 2 cannons are handled by Gunner 2 Fire Control: 3D Space Range: 1-3/12/25 Space Units Atmospheric Range: 100-300 metres/1.2 km/2.5 km Damage: 2D 1 Forward Concussion Missile Launcher (10 Missiles) Crew: 1 Gunner (Gunner 3) Fire Control: 2D+1 Space Range: 1-2/8/15 Space Units Atmospheric Range: 100-200 metres/800 metres/1.5 km Damage: 4D 1 Forward Nordoxicon Wavefront-Active Tractor Beam Projector Crew: 1 Gunner (Gunner 3) Fire Control: 4D Space Range: 1-5/15/30 Space Units Atmospheric Range: 100-500 metres/1.5 km/3 km Damage: 5D+2 Magnetic Power Harpoon Guns No stats available
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4 Turreted Ion Cannons 1 Forward Concussion Missile Launcher 1 Forward Tractor Beam Projector? Magnetic Power Harpoon Guns?
Sensors : | Passive : 40 Space Units/1D Scan : 80 Space Units/1D+2 Search : 130 Space Units/2D Focus : 4 Space Units/3D
Shields/Hull : | Novaldex Deflector Shield Generators. Telgorn Corp Tri-Level Armour Plate Hull
Shields/Hull Rating : | Shields 180 SBD. Hull 85 RU (WEG=Shields 4D+2. Hull 3D+2)
Note : | ISB background info states the Gamma features magnetic power harpoon guns and is atmospheric capable, yet provides no stats. The Woern's modified Gamma stripped all but two Spacetrooper launch ports and installed troop benches (for 50 troops), storage, and light weight sealed spacesuit holding compartments. Manoeuvrability has been improved and the shields and hull have been strengthened, while sensor ranges have been reduced. A scary note, Woern's Gamma has 9D damage capital-scale concussion missiles with improved fire control. XA (Tech Library) incorrectly states Gamma is 29 metres and 2 crew. XA (Cutscene) shows the Gamma using ion cannons.
The Gamma-class Assault Shuttle came about because of a design flaw discovered in the Beta-class Assault Shuttle, that being modular bays. Unlike the Beta-class, the Gamma-class employs a permanent-use Spacetrooper bay and as a result requires refitting only once every five years. This Assault Shuttle has been in service some time before the Battle of Yavin, as the first Death Star carried 3,600 of these craft. Most Imperial-class Star Destroyers carry at least one Gamma-class, along with its associated Spacetrooper platoon. In the case of other ships however, Gammas are only supplied as mission requirements dictate and if they are available. This design is capable of engaging capital ships more than three times its length, thanks to the amount of power the Gamma allocates to its shields. While most capital ships allocate around 25 percent of their total power to shields, the Gamma funnels up to 62 percent, with over half going into the forward arc. And because of this, the Gamma can weather even the most concentrated barrages for at least a short while. Not only do Gammas ferry Spacetrooper aboard engaged enemy ships, they also regularly engage capital ships. In normal boarding operations, the Gamma will latch onto the target with either its tractor beams or magnetic harpoons. From there, the crew may decide to cripple the target with a few well placed shots from its concussion missiles or laser cannons (or ion cannons). At this point, the shuttle unleashes its Spacetroopers to seize control of the target and becomes a field support station for its Spacetroopers. The Gamma-class Assault Shuttle is one of the most heavily shielded and armoured craft in the Imperial Navy. Three sections compose this assault shuttle; command, Spacetrooper bay (main body), and engineering. The cockpit is mostly surrounded by an armoured transparisteel viewport with four flight crew stations, and a command console situated behind those stations. Cockpit boarding hatches are found on either side (right below the viewport). From this position the command crew operates the shuttle and monitors the Spacetroopers' progress. Access to the main bay can come either from the cockpit or from two boarding hatches on either side at forward end and two boarding hatches on either side at the aft end. Below the Spacetrooper launch ports (which fold-away to open) are the Kel-Mar Steady-State Power Couplers which store and recharge their armour. There are ten port, ten starboard, and 20 dorsal launch ports; effectively one port per trooper. Meanwhile, the engineering section holds the power generators and engines. Unfortunately, the Empire is not the exclusive user of this design. The Rebels possess Gamma-class Assault Shuttles as they have captured from the Empire. It is also known that three years after the disaster at Endor, pirates such as Woern's Pirates possessed a single Gamma that they modified. They obtained it after finding it nearly destroyed from a battle, although no Spacetrooper armour was found onboard.
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Sources: AGSWU2***Pg 26 / CC***Pg 89 / DSTC***Pg 22, 93 / ISB***Pg 49, 50, 52, 53 / TLCSB***Pg 131, 135 / TTSB***Pg 235, 237 / SWE+Assault Shuttle***Pg 16 / WBC***Pg 40 / XA (Cutscene - Azzameens elude Imperial capture), (Tech Library)
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