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Assault Ship [Gigiru's Ship]

BACKGROUND

This assault warship that's known as "Gigiru's Warship" is a warship that's been designed to strengthen the combined performance based on the design of the Standard Battle Line Battleship. Even though it is equipped with large beam guns and double the energy conversion armour, the operational weight has become twice that of the battleship it's based on, and it became impossible to maintain a satisfactory speed by the initially planned enhancement of the engines used by the Standard Battle Line Battleship. Also, because the demand for output has also increased, the result is the adoption of a newly designed engine, and it became a large warship whose operational weight exceeds that of the battleship by three. Even though it is endowed with an excellent performance, because the cost is said to be ten times that of the Standard Battle Line Battleship, the production number is small.

The Assault Warship also possesses the capability to command-and-control a small-scale fleet. It is operated as the trump card of the Varohta Forces.

The armaments are mostly internal types in a warship that has a stealthy designed from a straight-lined polyhedron configuration. The lenses of large-bore guns are exposed in the center of the warship's sides. In the upper half of the warship's stern is the hangar section, and the open part in the warship's stern is an open-style gate for the hangar. The underside of the hangar section is the engine section. Carrier-borne aircraft catapult ports are laid out in the warship's bow, and there is a large-scale sensor that's referred to as the Aegis Head in the front of the upper part. Moreover, the fin structures located in the top and bottom of the back of the warship are heat sinks.

At the front of the bridge's interior is a combined window and large screen, and on the opposite side is the captain's seat. Embedded-style operator seats are lined up in the surface of the floor.

12 were operated by the Varohta Forces.

RPG STATS

Vehicle Type: Battleship
Class: Warship
Crew: 1013 to 1225 total (command tower: 45, main ship: 700, pilots: 180, troops: 88 to 300)
Manufacturer: Varohta Forces
Government: Varohta Forces
Customer: Varohta

Design Features: armour planks; sliding anti-ship missile and fighter catapults; rear hanger gate; large Aegis-head sensor.

Variants:
- Assault Warship: limited production version

MDC BY LOCATION:

Location MDC Location MDC
Main Body 1
Command Tower 2
Communications and Sensor Array 2 (2)
Main Engines/Power Plants 3 (2)
Secondary Engines 3 (4)
Small Guidance thrusters 3 (36)
Fins (10)
Main Battery Guns (2)
Sub-Battery Guns (10) 		23,000
3,500
400 each
7,000 each
2,500 each
200 each
1,000 each
500 each
350 each 		Small-Battery Guns (16)
Missile Launchers (10)
Small Anti-Aircraft Guns (48)
Outer Hull (per 12 m area)
Interior Hangar Walls (per 6 m area)
Interior Walls (per 3 m area)
Pin-point Barrier System 4
Total Barrier System 4 		300 each
250 each
100 each
300
20
200 SDC
2,500 each
15,000

SPEEDS:

Sub-light: 0.20 speed of light
Auxiliary Drive: Mach 3; Mach 9 in space.
Space Fold Range: 50 light years if there are no fold faults.

Planet bound: can land if necessary but not designed to manoeuvre in an atmosphere. Can only land in a body of water.
Maximum Range: estimated 20 year life span, which can be extended with regular maintenance and overhauls.

Maximum rate of ascent: 400 m per minute using the anti-gravity propulsion system.
Maximum instantaneous acceleration during combat: 1.70 G+

STATISTICAL DATA:

Height: under investigation
Width: under investigation
Length: 864 m

Operational Mass: 600,000 t
Empty Mass: 550,000 t

Power Plant: under investigation

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS

Note: Refer to the Ship Defensive Systems for stats unless otherwise noted herein:

1. HEAT AND RADIATION SHIELDS
2. SELF-DESTRUCT
3. ENERGY CONVERSION ARMOUR: the ship is equipped with double the energy conversion armour, for an armour strength 6 times that of normal.
4. SHIP-BORNE PIN-POINT BARRIER SYSTEM:

5. TOTAL BARRIER SYSTEM:

OFFENSIVE SYSTEMS

1. MAIN BATTERY: SUPERSIZE-BORE BEAM GUN (2)

In the center of the hull. Only the nozzle of the beam gun is exposed. The beam is aligned [with the target] by twisting in a deflection field.

2. SUB-BATTERY: LARGE-BORE BEAM GUN (10)

Spread over the ship. Only the nozzle of the beam gun is exposed. The beam is aligned [with the target] by twisting in a deflection field.

3. SUB-BATTERY: SMALL-BORE BEAM GUN (16)

Spread over the ship. Only the nozzle of the beam gun is exposed. The beam is aligned [with the target] by twisting in a deflection field.

4. LARGE ANTI-WARSHIP MISSILE LAUNCHER (7)

The lower part of the bow is armed with a Large Anti-Warship Missile sliding type missile magazines launching mechanism. Each one is loaded with 9 Large Anti-Warship Missiles.

5. RAPID-FIRE HIGH-SPEED MISSILE LAUNCHER (3)

Only the nozzle of the missile launcherers are exposed. Each launcher is a cluster of 12 missile launchers.

6. SMALL ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS (48)

Mounted all over the hull, approximately 8 per side. These Close in Weapons Systems (CIWS) can either be computer or manually controlled, and do not suffer the negative modifiers to hitting attacking mobile weapons, that larger starship based weapons do. They are intended primarily for anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense, but can do moderate damage against smaller enemy spacecraft if they get too close. At most 4 guns can be directed against a single target at any time.

7. SHIP-BORNE CRAFT

The mother-ship can be equipped with variable fighters to increase its versatility. The variable fighters are housed in the hangar on the upper half of the rear of the hull. The large opening in the bow is a battroid launch port. They are primarily used for defence, but can also be deployed on tactical missions.

SENSOR SYSTEMS

Note: Refer to the Ship Sensor Systems for stats unless otherwise noted herein:

1. LARGE AEGIS HEAD SENSOR: is an integrated system that uses powerful computers and radar to track and guide weapons to destroy enemy targets. It is an advanced Command and Control and Weapons Control System. The system communicates with the missiles through radio frequency uplinks for midcourse guideance of the missiles during engagements. This means that with proper scheduling of intercepts, a large number of targets can be engaged simultaneously.
2. LONG-RANGE DETECTION SYSTEM: Range: 2 AU
3. LONG-RANGE LASER/SATELLITE RELAY COMMUNICATIONS
4. SEARCH AND TARGETING RADAR: Range: 6,500 km
5. SUPER DIMENSIONAL SPACE COMMUNICATIONS: Range: 500 light years

OTHER STANDARD EQUIPMENT

Note: Refer to the Ship Other Systems for stats unless otherwise noted herein:

1. AIRLOCKS: 32 are scattered over the hull
2. ARMOURY
3. CARGO HATCHES: 10 spread over the hull
4. GRAVITY CONTROL
5. LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS
6. SPACE FOLD SYSTEM: the Cruiser has just enough surplus output to do a refold within a short period of time.
7. SUBLIGHT ENGINES

COMBAT BONUSES FOR SPACESHIP TRAINING

Note: only the hangars and cargo bays are macron (battroid) scale. The rest of the ship is micron scale.

While the Aegis Head Sensor is operational:

REFERENCES
  • Palladium Books Game Engine and MDC Rules
  • Macross Chronicle Varohta Fleet article
  • Macross 7 Animation Materials
  • The UNSDB's Varauta Large Battleship stats
  • Macross Compendium Varauta Large Battleship article

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