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ZENTRAEDI GOLG GANTS CHARTS (HEAVY ATTACKER)

RPG Stats by Daniel Henwood

BACKGROUND

The Golg Gants Charts Heavy Attacker is a highly feared craft utilised by the Zentraedi to hunt and kill enemy ships. Due to its small size and manouverability it is able to close in on enemy ships and attack whilst evading returning fire. Its primary weapon is a converging beam cannon that provides a much bigger punch that it appears due to an oversized reactor feeding it.

The pilot and gunner are not positioned in the conventional manner. The gunner sits in a rotating gun emplacement on the starboard dorsal fuselage of the craft, whilst the pilot is situated just to the left of the main cnverging beam cannon housing. Whilst it is the gunners responsibility to fire the anti-air rotational gun, and keep mecha units off them, it is the pilot who is responsible for the primary weapon, and anti-mecha missile launchers.

Due to its manouverability and hard hitting power, the Golg Gants Charts is feared by enemy units. The Heavy Attacker is commonly supported by regular mecha units to provide additional anti-mecha defence whilst it makes its runs against enemy ships.

RPG STATS

Government: Zentraedi Army
Ship Type: Heavy Attacker
Manufacturer: Factory Satellite
Crew: 2 Full Size Zentraedi (Pilot & Gunner)
Type: Heavy Attacker

MDC BY LOCATION: 

(1) Main Body                                    1200
(2) Main Engines/Power Plants (4)                 350 each
(2) Small Guidance thrusters (8)                   30 each
(3) Reinforced Pilots Compartment                 250  
(3) Reinforced Gunners Compartment                250  

    Anti-Ship Converging Energy Beam Cannon       400
    Missile Launchers (2)                         150 each  
    Rotational Pulse Laser Beam Cannon            350

NOTES:

  1. Depleting the MDC of the main body will put the craft out of commission. All internal systems will shut down, including the life support and internal gravity. The craft itself will be an unsalvageable floating wreck.
  2. Depleting the MDC of the main engines will force the craft to rely on its Secondary Guidance Thrusters. Depleting the MDC of the main engines and secondary engines will leave the ship adrift in space. If in an atmosphere, the ship will crash (destruction of the main engines will render the antigravity system useless due to loss of power).
  3. Depleting the MDC of the reinforced pilot, or gunners compartments will result in the death of the occupant.

SPEEDS:

Speed(sublight): 670 mph or Mach 1 (1078 kmph)

STATISTICAL DATA:

Length: 83m
Width: 49m

WEAPON SYSTEMS:

  1. ANTI-SHIP CONVERGING ENERGY BEAM CANNONS: Recessed in to the forward coning section of the craft is the primary weapon of the Golg Gants Charts. An Anti-Ship beam cannon. Similar in design to those found across the hull of Zentraedi warships, the converging beam cannon gives the craft a massive punch that can be used against large ships, and shuttles.

  2. ROTATIONAL PULSE LASER BEAM CANNON: Positioned on the starboard side of the craft, is a dual barreled anti-air weapon for defence of the Heavy Attacker. Like all of the other weapons on the craft, it too can be used as a supporting weapon to the main cannon against enemy ships.

  3. MISSILE LAUNCHERS (2): As an additional defence against mecha units, and also as an aid to attacking ships, the Golg Gants Charts has two missile launchers capable of

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