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Guardian-class

Designed as the ultimate orbit-to-surface insertion vehicle, the 1000-meter-long Guardian-class is a massive dropship designed to crash. After carving a canyon through the LZ, it then unleashes its cargo, and takes off back towards its starship.

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Capacity[]

The Guardian-class can carry a 6000-ton Earthshaker or a 30-meter-tall Titan in its belly. Alternatively, the massive cargo bay can carry an entire Chapter Division of Templar, 5000 men strong. They enter and exit through the Guardian's rear hatch.

Sensors[]

Except for a full-hull contact sensor and passive forward-looking thermographs, the Guardian has no sensory equipment.

Anti-Spacecraft Weaponry[]

None.

Anti-Surface Weaponry[]

None.

Upgrades[]

None.

Protection[]

Passive[]

The Guardian-class's outer layer is composed of self-healing polymer that allows it to use a portion of the kinetic energy that has ripped it open to close the hole. Then there is a Faraday cage to ignore medium-energy EMP bursts. Behind that, there is a layer of tri-layer graphene as a barrier between the two major components of the armor, as well as acting as the armor's circuitry. It then has overlapping ceramic plates; if penetration happens, the epoxy glue microcapsules in the ceramic plating can allow a fractured piece of ceramic plating to return to roughly the same level of integrity. Finally, Titanium plating and spall liner form the innermost portion of its armor. This protects it from 16' Olympium sabots. It has a layer of Olympium plating to reinforce its underside hull, allowing it to plow through metal, stone and all with ease as it makes contact with a planet's surface.

Active[]

In terms of active protection, the Guardian-class has an eletromagnetic wave jammer.

Kinetic Shield[]

Projected out of projection points in the spacecraft's fuselage, the armor can absorb an impact from anything: slugs, electrons, photons, ions, anti-protons, etc. It can absorb up to 4.0x 10^15 joules of energy before collapsing and burning out—which means that it can absorb a single Rangav ASShM. Alternatively it can be used to assist the Assault Dropship when it plows through obstacles.

Locomotion[]

The Guardian-class is powered by four fusion rockets, with a Brayton power conversion unit and radiators attached to them for energy-producing and heat-dissipating reasons. Each fusion rocket supplies the spacecraft with plasma exhaust in excess of 1,000,000 K at 22 kilometers per second, and with magnetic vector thrusters, allows the Guardian-class to maneuver to and from its starship.

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