Mereel Vaun
Jedi
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a gunship that can serve as a troop deployment and limited close air support vessel for the Republic Remnant
- Image Source: Quesocito, https://quesocito.deviantart.com/art/Thunderhawk-deploying-a-Firewolf-FL-I-334099843
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: The Republic Remnant
- Model: RRATD Gunship (Republic Rapid Armor & Troop Deployment Gunship)
- Affiliation: The Republic Remnant
- Production: Minor.
- Material: Durasteel hull
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Gunship
- Length: 28.6 meters
- Width: 22 meters
- Height: 6.2 meters
- Armament: High
- 2 Concussion Missile Launchers (with 4 missiles each)
- 1 Rear-Facing Laser Cannon Turret
- Defenses: Moderate
- Deflector Shields
- Squadron Count: Low: 8
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: None
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Deflector Shield Generator
- Standard Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Repulsorlift Engines
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Can enter atmosphere and land
- Extending ventral loading bay for vehicle loading and deployment.
ADVANCED SYSTEMS
N/A
Strengths:
+ Heavily Armed: The RRATD Gunship is armed with plenty of weaponry for limited close air support.
+ Large Deployment Bay: The RRATD Gunship can deliver 30 troops and two speeder bikes to a battlefield. Alternatively, the RRATD can carry a single larger vehicle, such as a tank or a scout walker, and a compliment of 20 troops to a battlefield.
Weaknesses:
- Oversized Load: The RRATD Gunship is too large to land in tight environments, such as cities and forests. In order to deploy its troops and armor in these scenarios, the RRATD Gunship has to hover over the dropzone and have its troops repel from six ropes secured in the troop bay. As you might imagine, having 30 soldiers repel from a dropship using only six ropes can take a minute or two, and the RRATD is completely immobile during this process.
- Exposed Repulsorlifts: The repulsorlifts that the RRATD Gunship uses to hover over its drop-zones are exposed on the vessel's wings. While the gunship does have shields and armor to protect these repulsorlifts, and the countermeasure flares can be used to disrupt a proton torpedo or missile's tracking, a shoulder-mounted missile launcher can easily destroy a repulsorlift while the RRATD is deploying its troops. Due to the heavy weight and often heavy cargo that these gunships carry, the destruction of a single repulsorlift will ground a RRATD Gunship.
- Requires Carrier: The RRATD Gunship has no hyperdrive, and requires a carrier vessel to enter different systems.
Description:
Unlike most vessels serving the Republic Remnant, the RRATD Gunship had no Chiss engineer involvement during its conception. The vessel's design started with a survey of Republic Army and Ranger personnel concerning troop deployment ships.
The information gathered in this survey was used by several Remnant shipwrights to draft the blueprints of the RRATD Gunship. The RRATD Gunship is capable of rapidly deploying soldiers and armor to a warzone, while also providing limited fire support.
The RRATD has a standard compliment of 30 soldiers and 2 speeder bikes, but is capable of holding and deploying one larger vehicle (maximum height of 5 meters tall, 10 meters long, and 6 meters wide) at the cost of reducing its soldier capacity to 16.
- Minimum Crew Compliment: 2 (Pilot, Copilot)
- Optimal Crew Compliment: 4 (Pilot, Copilot, Deck Officer, Mechanized Infantry Technician)
- Infantry Bay Compliment: 30 Soldiers and 2 speeder bikes, or 16 soldiers and 1 vehicle(with a maximum height of 5 meters tall, 10 meters long, and 6 meters wide).
- Consumables: 2 Days
