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Requiltra Queleual-class Multi-Purpose Transport

Note: While Zentraedi ships have been assigned Terran naval/space type designators, it must be stressed that their size and armaments placed them in a class of their own, matched only by contemporary Tirolian and modern Terran construction of like designations. As such, their designations must be viewed as indicators of intent and use rather than absolute strength. In addition, the proper translation of the Zentraedi vessel designations into English was never completely agreed upon; for instance, some texts call the Ruiltral Queleual-class a 'assault carrier' while others refer to it as 'tender'.

Class History:

Of these, 772,331 of these were lost in the 4th Robotech War (2063-2068).  2 of these were destroyed during the Neld Invasion of 2057.  5 of these have been lost through various other causes be they accident or otherwise.

Ships' Complement:

(Maximum troops):

• Ships' crew (1800 men)
• Air group (5000 men)
• Troops (30,000 men)
• Life support limits are for a full combat complement and about 98,000 supernumeraries (100,000 men total).

Note: The given numbers are approximations; the exact number of personnel varied somewhat due to operational realities and different ships.

Dimensions:

• Length: 5770 meters overall
• Height: 1370 meters overall
• Width: 900 meters overall
• Fuel Mass:  40,000,000 metric tons
• Operational mass (typical): 320,000,000 metric tons

Propulsion Systems:

• Main power system: Dealmalunn Melkezants Mk VII anti matter-fueled reflex furnace cluster. The powerplant of a Requiltra Queleual-class vessel can nominally deliver up to 85 Petawatts of power, and can operate for 60 minutes at maximum power before overheat initiates auto-shutdown.
• Maneuvering Thrusters (78): Thun Varredoush Mk III  fusion-plasma reaction thruster clusters with steerable nozzles. The engine blister under the nose has six forward and two ventral nozzles, fed by the engine through exhaust deflectors. The others are mounted in rows of five, two rows in the upper port and starboard bow, two rows in the lower port and starboard bow, two rows in the upper port and starboard stern, two rows in the lower port and starboard stern, one row in the port and starboard ventral stern, and one row in the port and starboard dorsal hull, also forward and aft.
  Additionally, the side thrusters have dorsal and ventral exhaust deflectors.
• Reaction-mass Thrusters (11):  Varretszalnna Mk X fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with anti matter energizer.  Two are mounted in engine blisters in the lower part of the stern, six in rows of three in two engine blisters to the sides of the stern, two flush in the hull in the upper part of the stern, and one mounted in a blister under the nose. There are no forward thrusters; breaking maneuvers are made with the aft main thrusters using exhaust deflectors opening in the engine pods and through ports in the upper aft hull.
• Anti-gravity System (1):  100 Degrashan Mk XI anti-gravity pods.
• Space Fold (1): Siquetzs Mk VI spacefold. This system generates a hull-conformal fold
• Planetary Capabilities: The Requiltra Queleual-class  has atmospheric capabilities through its reaction engines and anti-gravity systems. The hull has sufficient structural strength to make a cold landing, but the landing field requires extensive preparations to increase its carrying capacity and equalize the terrain. The ship will float in an ocean, but only the upper ingress/egress ports will open above the waterline, which greatly hampers access to the ship.

Endurance and mobility limits:

• The numbers assume the ship's own supplies only; often, part of the cargo for the ships consisted of dry stores for other ships, but these could of course be used for the Requiltra Queleual themselves.
  The dry stores endurance is 20 months maximum; after that, the ships of this class need to restock. Water stores are recycled almost totally. If fewer or no auxiliary vessels are carried, the freed hangar space can be used to store additional consumables.
• The mecha consumables supplies (mainly missiles) are plentiful due to the volume of the ship and the small number of the defending mecha; the Requiltra Queleual-class is able to sustain continuous combat operations for more than 40 days.
  Should the Requiltra Queleual be used as a landing ship, more supplies would be carried to cater for the needs of the larger troop complement. A full troop deployment can be supplied with enough stores to sustain combat operations of average intensity for about 12 days.
  The missile magazines for the ship's own launchers are typically empty after four major space battles.
• At full power, the main propulsion systems can nominally produce up to 32 Teranewtons of thrust at a minimal reaction mass efficiency profile, or as little as 627 Giganewtons of thrust at a maximum efficiency setting. At lower power levels, these thrusts are commensurately smaller.
• At full power, the Requiltra Queleual's can nominally achieve a maximum delta-v of 285 kps at the cruising acceleration of 0.3G, a maximum delta-v of 57 kps at the battle acceleration of 1.4G, and a delta-v of at most 17.8 kps at the flank acceleration of 2.3G. At lower power levels, these ranges are commensurately smaller.
  Note: these numbers are for the landing ship variant. Should the Requiltra Queleual be a fully loaded tanker variant, the maximum acceleration would be 30% lower, but the delta-v capacity would be increased due to the additional reaction mass. However, using the latter would detract from the ship's value as a tanker. In service, tankers usually operated apart from battle formations.
• The fold systems were not navigationally guaranteed for any single jump beyond 5 kiloparsecs. If longer voyages were required, the ship had to conduct multiple fold jumps.
• The maximum sustained atmospheric speed is Mach 2. The maximum hover time on the anti-gravity systems is limited only by the anti-matter supplies and maintenance requirements.
• The hull has a designed life-time (including regular refits) of approximately 200 years.

Weapon systems:

• Thatzsral Mossil 5 plasma cannon(2): This is the Zentraedi version of the plasma cannon.  The Zentraedi version has a much larger discharge of 72.2 GJ, but a range of only 50,000 km making among the most short range capital ship weapons.  It does have a excellent refire rate of once every 3 seconds making superior in terms of firepower and fire delay to the Terran cannon however. These cannon are located on on the lower half of the leading edge of the port and starboard main engines.
• Inral Mossil 6 ion cannon(40):  Based on the venerable Makral Mossil series particle cannon, these cannon form the bulk of the anti-starship firepower on Zentraedi vessels.  The basic Makral Mossil has been improved by replacing the aging particle cannon with an ion cannon.  While having a rather weak discharge and range, the cannon has a very impressive rate of fire of once every second at maximum.  The cannon still mounts the low power laser cannon to cut a path for the ion cannon though.  The ion cannon has a range of 60,000 km and can discharge at 1.9 GJ every second.  Although these cannons are mounted to provide fire on all bearings, the highest concentration is in the nose and on the sides of the nose
• Nupe Mossil 4 defense cannon(66): In a doctrine change from the old Zentraedi to the new Zentraedi, all new Zentraedi warships now mounted a modest point defensive suite built around both missile turrets and particle cannon.  In battles against the Invid during the EF's struggle against them, the Zentraedi bore witness to the need for  point defense for their ships and incorporated them into all new designs. Mounted behind movable panels in the main hull (60) and in front of the bridge(6). These standard turrets can fire 50 MJ of particle energy three times per second at a range of up to 15 km.
• Deuawhaug Rasar SLBM launchers(16):  A reloadable Silo Launch System (RSLS), or as it is better known, a torpedo tube, capable of firing large anti-ship and ground bombardment torpedoes. The tubes can reload in 5 seconds, and have a 20 round magazine close-by. These launchers are mounted in the lower forward hull, between the lower and upper amour mantels.
  The missiles used are the DH-1, DH-2, and DH-3 missiles. The DH-1 is a nuclear missile with a 10 MT reaction warhead, the DH-2 is a conventional tipped missile with a warhead of 5.2 metric tons, and the DH-3 is a multi-warhead missile with thirty MIRV with a nuclear warhead of 5 kT each.
  Both missiles are optimized for anti-ship strikes in deep space, but can be used in orbital bombardment modes or in an atmosphere.
• Touwhaug Rasar 10 surface to air missile turret(160): A missile launcher mounted in a pop-up turret, firing TH-1 anti-mecha/missile missiles, though the projectiles can guide on point-blank enemy ships. When the missiles are released they are already on their intercept vectors, or very close to them. Each turret has a reload time of 5 seconds and a magazine with a 250 round capacity. They are mounted for spherical coverage.

Electronics:

• Banupetzs 15 Omnidirectional barrier defense system(1): An advanced forcefield system which covers the full four pi steradians around the ship with a yellow-greenish forcefield (or if desired, only part of the ship). This field will stop all solids and directed energy weapons (except lasers through a narrow band). However, excess energy which cannot be shunted from the field will be stored in the virtual structure of the field itself. The storage wattage is high but not infinite, and when the barrier overloads the field will discharge the stored energy particles. This discharge will have the force of a high-yield (>45 MT) fusion bomb. However, as the discharged energetic particles' vectors will be away from the field and its generating vessel, the vessel will survive, though it will suffer severe damage to its internal electronics and power systems, and will not be battleworthy until repairs are made.

Air group and mecha complement:

(All Zentraedi configurations):

• 2600 Reraulon've Aerospace Fighter/Attack Plane
• 500 Harsz Dakan Veritech Fighter

(Typical Landing ship configuration):

• 10000 Relotzor Tactical Battle Pod (four versions)
• 1500 Gilouza Glaug Officers Battle Pod
• 1200 Holto Queadluunkah Strike Power Armor
• 1600 Holto Queadluun Power Armor
• 200 Holto Queadluuntiet Command Power Armor
• 5 Dakankahnna Heavy Attack Ship
• 200 Makral Zjendral Unmanned Defense Drone
• 60 Reliewneuatzs Personnel Shuttle
• 60 Quallie Dakan Recovery Pod
• 35 Renauglar Nodral Refueling Tanker
• 10 Requel Quallie-class Theatre Scout Recon
• 40 Draedni Queleual-class Light Transport

(Typical Fleet Support configuration):

• 4000 Relotzor Tactical Battle Pod (four versions)
• 600 Gilouza Glaug Officers Battle Pod
• 600 Holto Queadluunkah Strike Power Armor
• 800 Holto Queadluun Power Armor
• 100 Holto Queadluuntiet Command Power Armor
• 3 Dakankahnna Heavy Attack Ship
• 200 Makral Zjendral Unmanned Defense Drone
• 60 Reliewneuatzs Personnel Shuttle
• 60 Quallie Dakan Recovery Pod
• 35 Renauglar Nodral Refueling Tanker
• 10 Requel Quallie-class Theatre Scout Recon
• 40 Draedni Queleual-class Light Transport

Note: The given numbers are approximations; the exact number and type of mecha varied somewhat due to operational realities and different ships.

Design Notes:

History:

Layout adapted from Robotech Reference Guide

Content by Jeffrey R. Spillner
Copyright © 2000, 1999, 1998 Jeffrey R. Spillner

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