Indomitable-Class Single Stage To Orbit Shuttle

The Indomitable-Class
Single Stage To Orbit Shuttle

The Indomitable-Class SSTOS is a general-purpose space shuttle from before the Global Civil War; It was intended to service the Internationalists, specifically the space station.

The vehicle was forgotten about for many years, amidst the chaos of the GCW, the First and Second Robotech wars, the anarchy and technological backslide of the Third Robotech war, and the general apathy of the short-lived Second Invid Occupation, until the return of the Regis, who took the Invid back to Optera. The orbiter was acquired by the REF, and rebuilt as a working, no frills shuttle during Reconstruction. UES Indomitable SSTOS-Ų2 was used to get men and material into orbit cheaply and reliably.

The Indomitable-Class SSTOS features a ventral airlock hatch, twin shuttle bay doors, a “Canadarm” manipulator arm, two forward lasers (hidden under bow doors under the chin of the craft), and a command deck with habitation modules integrated into that area (even though the shuttle was intended as short-term transporter).

It has become the standard use space shuttle, sold to anyone with the money; However, it is VERY expensive. They are also commonly found in the hands of start-up colonies as defense platforms/light bombers, and picket ships, and by pirates as raider ships.
Name: Indomitable-Class SSTOS
Model Type: Single Stage To Orbit Shuttle
Class: Orbiter
Crew: 4 to 6
Passengers: Another one or two personnel can be accommodated.
MDC by Location:

Fuselage-
Command Deck Section (cockpit)-
Interior Doors, Hatches, and Scuttles-

2ŲŲ
15Ų
1ŲŲ each

Thrusters (4 forward, 2 amidships, 6 aft)-
Canadarm Manipulator Arm-
Standard Manipulator Arm-

15Ų each
1ŲŲ per each section (3 sections)
2ŲŲ each section (2 sections; A third can be added).

Speed and Statistical Data:
Speed: Mach 5
Range: 5Ų,ŲŲŲ miles; However, it should be remembered that the craft has to go UP and come DOWN on a single tank of gas.
Length: 2Ų4 feet
Girth: 8Ų feet
Height: 6Ų feet.
Weight: 552 tons.
Cargo Bay: 1Ų feet×12 feet×2Ų feet
Cargo Weight Limit: 2ŲŲ tons
Construction Cost: 2ŲŲ million credits.
Operating Cost: 5Ų million credits per mission; About 4 missions are authorized per year.
Availability: Each ships takes about 3 months to build.
Black Market and Availability: 1 to 5ŲŲ million credits; Occasionally available. Usually they are bought legally, then used in an illegal fashion.
Weapons Systems:
1. Forward-Mounted Lasers Cannons: 2 forward mounted laser
cannons are located underneath hatches on the chin of the nose. They
have limited arc of fire (2Ų° off dead ahead), and zeroed at 2ŲŲ’.
These are the same cannons installed on the REF Raidar X and
similarly armed Mecha. However, due to the fact that it doesn’t have
as much weight restrictions, additional focusing sub-laser assemblies
were added, increasing range 5Ų%.
Purpose: Anti-Aircraft/Ship
MD: 2D1Ų short burst, 4D1Ų medium burst, or 6D1Ų long burst.
Rate of Fire: 8 short, 4 medium, or 2 long bursts per arm per melee per gunner’s attacks per melee.
Range: 15 miles
Payload: Unlimited
2. MRM Launcher: An MRM launcher mounted on the ventral
side of the craft provides some aggressive characteristics. Note that
this is the same type of launcher used on the Armored Veritech and it’s Destroid knock-off.
Purpose: Anti-Ship/Aircraft
Missile Type: Medium Range
Rate of Fire: Volleys of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 or all 24 per gunners attacks per melee.
Payload: 24 total; Can not be reloaded in the air (requires special equipment).
3. Ball Laser Turrets: A pair of fixed position laser turrets, one dorsal and another ventral. Traverse is a full 36Ų° and arc is 19Ų°.
Purpose: Defense/Anti-Aircraft/Missile
MD: 4D6 per blast.
Rate of Fire: Per gunners attacks per melee.
Payload: Unlimited.
4. Fighters and Mecha: The Indomitable-Class can carry one of the following Fighter/Mecha packages:
3 Spacer Space Fighters;
2 Spacer Space Fighters and one Destroid or Guardian;
2 Guardian or Veritech Fighters;
Or 1 Aerial Fighter.
Features
ESM: Radar Detector. Passively detects other radars being operated.
Radar: Combat grade radar. Range 1,ŲŲŲ miles, can track up to 2,5ŲŲ individual targets. 95% reliability (5Ų% against unfriendly stealthed vehicles).
Blue Force Tracker: Identifies friend from foe. Overlays the information on both the radar and HUD, ensuring that friendly forces are not accidentally targeted.
GPS: Standard tracking device. Ties into the Blue Force Tracker.
Anti-Jamming System: Reduces Electronics Countermeasure by ¾ (decrease skill level appropriately).
HUD: Displays maps, radar, targeting information, and any OTHER information the wearer wants directly in front of the user.
FLIR/SLIR: Forward and Side Looking Infrared. Allows pilot to get visuals on targets at night.
AJP: Active Jamming Pod. Causes -25% to detection but when it is active, other vehicles/bases can detect that it is jamming, and some missiles will home in on jamming signals. Jamming also causes a -4 penalty to all radar guided weapons. The jamming pod is only mounted inside the port taileron.
AMC/FD (2): Anti-Missile Chaff/Flare Dispensers. Actually launches a glob of burning magnesium/aluminum alloy to confuse both radar AND heat sensory systems. Fires off Ų4 chaff/flares each time it is activated. The system is KNOWN to work on all KNOWN radar and infrared systems, but concerns continue that somewhere out there their MIGHT be a system that will be totally unaffected by the system. Reduce effects by 2Ų% against smart missiles (add +2Ų% to rolls for smart missiles.)
Effect:
Ų1-5Ų Enemy missile or missile volley detonates in chaff cloud- Missiles are all destroyed.
51-75 Enemy missile or missile volley loses track of real target and veers away in wrong direction (may lock onto another target).
76-ŲŲ No effect, missile is still on target.
Also note that the chaff cloud will also blind nearby heat sensors (and optically based sensors at night) for 1 melee. They will suffer the following penalties: Reduce melee attacks/actions, and combat bonuses by half.
Duration: 1D4 melee rounds.
Payload: 6Ų chaff/flares. Each time the system is engaged, the system fires off Ų4 chaff/flares.
LDP (4): Launched Decoy Pods. Located on the ventral side of the fuselage, the satellite carries advanced decoy drones, specially designed radar lure that creates a radar image to mimic the satellite. The drones are launched and fly off in various directions away from the satellite. Each is a specially. The decoys self-destruct at random times (multiples of 3Ų minutes, i.e. 3Ų minutes later, 6Ų minutes later, 9Ų minutes later, etc). This system has been successfully deployed against SEVERAL alien radar-type sensors (including one that works off of sound), but not against Invid Protoculture sensors. (They will sometimes attract Invid, however, at -5Ų%.)
MDC: 5
Effects: The decoy has a 98% chance of fooling ordinary non military radars and non smart guided missiles, and a 9Ų% chance of fooling military grade radars and advanced smart missiles.
Range: Released to go wherever it wants. Can fly independently for about 3Ų minutes.
Rate of Fire: 2 every melee.
Payload: 16 Decoys each pod.
Virtual Map: Displays a continuously-updating map of local terrain for the pilot. Takes data from and gives data to other friendly units in the area. Effective land navigation of 85% as updates come. Good to 5ŲŲ miles. Specific range can be adjusted in 1 mile increments.
Video Camera: Records from the HUD. 5Ų hours of recording available.
Full range optic sensory suite: Infrared, ultra violet, Magnification, night sight, color filters, thermal imager. Range is about 2ŲŲ miles for MOST sensors.
Telescoping Arms: A pair of Canadarm telescoping manipulator arms. Full extended reach: 18 feet.
Survival Pack: A pack of simpler emergency survival supplies: Pup tent, sleeping bag, black light, GPS, 1^st aid kit (bandages, gauze, bandage tape, pads, antiseptic/analgesic), plasma torch (for small repairs and starting fires), repair kit (with MDC Repair Spray), sewing kit (a small spool of thread and 5 needles), 7 star flares (25Ų foot apogee), 2 white parachute flares (1,5ŲŲ foot apogee), 1ŲŲ feet of black or brown parachute cord (15Ų lbs tensile strength), 2-5 days rations, 2 gallons water, water purification kit- good for about 1Ų gallons.
Sensory Systems: The craft is equipped with sensors the likes of which no one has ever before imagined; Laser sensors that can listen in on spoken conversations, in crowded and noise-filled places; Cameras that can read the seconds on a digital wrist-watch in the dark; Signal interceptor systems that can not only eavesdrop on laser-secured radio systems, but in fact can even JAM them, causing a totally worthless signal to be received; Even a EMP-based dampening system that can tap into computers, copying all the data and leaving a blank computer in it’s wake (unfortunately this does not work on hardened circuitry); Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems that can tell not only when one object is hiding amongst others (such as a power armor hiding in thick foliage with it’s power plant off), but even near-alike objects intertwined (such as two different types of plants growing together); All from the edge of space.
Smoke dispensers (8): Throws out smoke flares capable of obscuring IR and heat sensors, and defeats visual tracking of the vehicle. Mostly used for obscuring the craft during landing (as the wheels touch the system engages).
CS/A-Ų13(a) Communications Satellite (4): Each Indomitable-Class Patrol Ship can carry up to 4 of these disposable satellites for extended communications and radar range. (This is in addition to any loaded on as cargo.)
Combat Bonuses from Indomitable-Class SSTOS Elite:

2 additional attack per melee.
One additional Attack Per melee at levels 3, 9, and 15 with any additional bonuses for the pilot.
+2 Initiative
+4 Roll
+6 Dodge