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By AARON SKETCHLEY (aaronsketch@HOTdelete_thisMAIL.com) Ver 3.5 2015.08.31
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Oberth class Space Destoyer

BACKGROUND

Due to the ASS-1 taking up residence on Earth, mankind got to know about the dispute between alien comrades taking place outside of the solar system; and established the Unified Government in addition to strengthening the Earth's defence system. As part of that strengthening, a Space Destroyer, mounting thermonuclear reaction rocket engines (copied from the Macross's engine technology), was developed. It is an excellent warship because of its manoeuvrability and mass producibility, which is due to its simplified structure. Although the adapted Over Technology engine, reaction warhead armament, mobility and offensive strength are good, because of its lightweight armour, the Space Destroyer is vulnerable.

Construction started in April, 2003, at the L5 (Lagrange-5) Industrial Station. Two years later, in March, 2005, the first warship, Oberth, was commissioned. The No.2 ship "Goddard" (in June) and the No.3 ship "Tsiolkovsky" (in September), were commissioned in 2005. Henceforth, in preparation for hostilities with any aliens who should come, the Space Destroyer was mass produced, and a considerable number were deployed by the outbreak of Space War 1.

However, the first battle won by the Space Destroyer was not Space War 1 in 2009, which it was waiting for, but in September, 2005; when the "Tsiolkovsky" was hijacked by the Anti Unification Alliance and attacked the [Unified Government] fleet returning from Mars. The Space Destroyer's first gunfire was turned on Earth's Unified Forces itself. Thus, the Unified Forces dispatched the "Goddard" in regard to this situation. The "Tsiolkovsky" was sunk with reaction warheads, and the incident was suppressed. Incidentally, the captain of the "Goddard" at that time was (at the time) Colonel Bruno J. Global; who later became the captain of the Macross.

Although there was quite a number of space destroyers, most centering at Earth satellite orbit at the time of the outbreak of Space War I, they suffered heavy loss from the first contact with the Buritai fleet. However, it can be said that they succeeded in battle more than the Unified Forces Headquarters assumed, by their confirmed sinking of 10 or more enemy ships by reaction weapons.

At the time of the all-out attack by the Bodoru Main Fleet on the Earth, even though the remaining 125 Space Destroyer returned fire, they were all destroyed within 5 minutes by the enemy's overwhelming firepower. The result was that only the few ships assigned to the defence of the Apollo Base on the Moon's surface survived.

The original plan of the Unified Space Forces defence system had the goal of reconstructing the Macross and constructing ARMD I~VII (I and II docking to the Macross) by the year 2011, in addition to an impressive number of Space Destroyers at the Moon and Legrange points undertaking patrol duty. However, the fight with the Zentraadi broke out in 2009. The Space Forces rushed into a great war before the large fleet was completed, and the strategic concept of the space force was still fragile, so it collapsed. However, as the Bodoru Main Fleet boasted of a fleet exceeding 5 million ships with overwhelming war making abilities at the time of the all-out attack on Earth, doubt remains whether the Unified Space Forces Defense System would have worked effectively even if the combat abilities of the Unified Space Forces' plan was in order.

RPG STATS

Vehicle Type: Space Destroyer
Class: Destroyer
Crew: 460 (22 Officers, 438 Crew)
Manufacturer: L5 (Lagrange 5) Industrial Station
Government: Unified Government
Customer: Unified Space Forces

Design Features: windowless, sealed up bridge is part of the state-of-the-art tower.

Variants:

Ships of Class:
No.1 Oberth: commissioned March 2005
No.2 Goddard: commissioned June, 2005
No.3 Tsiolkovsky: commissioned September, 2005; Destroyed September, 2005
No.? Akishima: destroyed February, 2009
No.? Miranda: destroyed February, 2009

MDC BY LOCATION:

Location MDC Location MDC
(2) Main Body
Beam Guns (4)
Missile Launchers (3)
Small Anti-Aircraft Guns (12)
(4) Front Sensor Cluster
(3) Bridge 		2,750
250 each
600 each
100
200
500 		(2) Cruise Engines (2)
(2) Combat Booster Rockets (2)
Hangar Doors
Outer Hull (per 12 m area)
Interior Hangar Walls (per 6 m area)
Interior Walls (per 3 m area) 		500 each
750 each
200
150
10
100 SDC

SPEEDS:

Speed (sublight): 0.1 speed of light (approximately 30,000 kmps)
Speed (Auxiliary Drives): Mach 6.5 in space.
Space Fold Range: N/A

Planet bound: cannot fly in an atmosphere. Will burn up and crash.
Maximum Range: estimated 20 year life span, which can be extended with regular maintenance and overhauls.
Maximum Underwater Depth: N/A

Maximum rate of ascent: 400 m per minute using the anti-gravity propulsion system.
Maximum instantaneous acceleration during combat: 1.55 G+

STATISTICAL DATA:

Height: under investigation
Width: under investigation
Length: (approximately) 200 m
Operational Inertial Mass: 72,000 tons

Power System: Two Cruise Engines (the Reaction Propulsion Cluster System (Thermonuclear Reaction Rocket Engines)).
Jet Propulsion System: Two Combat Booster Rockets. Six retro-rockets. Vernier belt on nose.
Fold Engine: N/A
Gravity Control System: Over Technology Advanced Gravity Control System

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS

1. HEAT AND RADIATION SHIELDS

2. SELF-DESTRUCT

3. ENERGY CONVERSION ARMOUR

4. ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES

Note: In space, Radio and Radar Waves are range x10.

OFFENSIVE SYSTEMS:

Note: Stats indicate the Effective Range. Maximum Range is effective range x1.5, but is -3 to strike.
In space: Explosions and shock-waves: range x 10, but damage x0.1 in the extended shock-wave; Lasers: range x2; Extended range is range x3, but is -2 to strike and damage x0.5; Other weapons: range x2

1. LARGE-CALIBRE FIXED BEAM CANNONS (2):

The cannons can only fire at targets directly in front of the ship.

2. MEDIUM-CALIBRE FIXED BEAM CANNONS (2):

The cannons can only fire at targets directly in front of the ship.

3. RB-5 ANTI-WARSHIP REACTION WARHEAD MISSILE LAUNCHERS (3):

3 6-tube missile launchers on the rear ventral section of the ship. The anti-ship missiles use the RB-5 Reaction Warhead, whose explosive power is able to be set within the range of 20 and 100 kt. At maximum power, a single missile can incapacitate a Standard Battleship of the Zentraadi Forces.

4. SMALL ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS (12)

Mounted all over the hull, approximately 2 per side. The guns are essentially a GU-11 gun pod mounted on a turret with a larger magazine. With a rate of fire of 1,200 rounds per minute, the guns can expend their entire magazine within seconds. To prevent this, they have been mechanically preset to be able to fire in burst of either 5, 10, 20 rounds, or multiples of 10 until the magazine is emptied.

5. SHIP-BORNE CRAFT

The Oberth has a small bay at the bottom rear with a shuttle for ferrying supplies and passengers between ships. If necessary, this bay can hold up to 3 additional vehicles. If more than 2 vehicles are stored in the small bay, no additional equipment for the vehicles (such as reloads) can be stored.

The hangar ceiling is 15 m high. Only the hangars and cargo bays are macron (battroid) scale. The rest of the ship is micron scale.

Unified Space Forces Defence System Original Plan:
  • 3 QF-3000 Ghost and SF-3A Lancer II.
    		• Standard:
  • 3 Variable Fighters with FAST packs. The VFs will have to land and take off in GERWALK and cannot convert into any other mode while inside the hangar.

    • 6. HAND TO HAND COMBAT

    If necessary, the pilot of the Oberth Space Destroyer can use the ship itself as a weapon. The attack isn't recommended as the sudden stop will send everything that isn't strapped down flying, and may cause considerable damage or even death among the crew.

    DAMAGE:

    SENSOR SYSTEMS

    Unless otherwise noted, refer to Ship Sensor Systems for details.
    Note: In space, Radio and Radar Waves are range x10.

    OTHER STANDARD EQUIPMENT

    Unless otherwise noted, refer to Ship Other Systems for details.

    COMBAT BONUSES FOR SPACECRAFT TRAINING

    The following is in ship-to-ship combat with enemy starships or Protodeviln. They do not apply in ship to mobile weapon combat.

    REFERENCES
  • Palladium Books Game Engine and MDC Rules
  • Macross Chronicle Oberth class Space Destroyer Article
  • Macross Perfect Memory
  • Steelflacon's Oberth class Space Destroyer stats
  • The Macross Compendium Oberth class article

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