Evakmar-KDY Transport

[Kemper Boyd]

Have the stats for these ships been ever officially published anywhere? I looked through my own books and Wookiepedia, and apparently the only official mention of them is in the Imperial Sourcebook.

If not, maybe we should make a group effort to make such.

[Praxian]

Doesn't sound like it'd be that hard to come up with basic stats for it. It's primarily a troop transport, so there'd be a bunch of bunk setups. Figure 8 to 10 people to a room in a 15 x 15 bunk setup (maybe 20 x 20). Using the troops that are being transported, some of them can be used to man various weapon turrets, so crew would actually be very minimal. Even with weapons though, there probably wouldn't be that many as the ships often traveled in pairs so there'd be 2 transports at a time and 2 Strike Cruisers to protect them.

Figure something like a space move of 6, x1 Hyperdrive Modifier, crew of 10, passengers from 100 to 10,000 depending on whether you wanted it to be a small or a big ship. A 3D Hull and 4D Shields I could see (potentially a little more hull as they use those ships for transporting technicians too).

As for weapons, maybe 2 or 3 Turbolaser mounts. Nothing more than that I could see or justify.

[Praxian]

Little correction to my prior post after reading up a bit more on it.

It'd most likely be a capital ship, crew 100 with passengers (troops) of 37,000 for transport. The ships were made to carry a full standard army corps of personnel (which for the Empire is 36,864).

[Doomhead]

I found some home-brew stats, might be useful. They were posted here:

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=138042

TROOP TRANSPORT VESSEL
CRAFT: Evakmar-KDY August transport
TYPE: August-class corps transport vessel
SCALE: Capital
LENGTH: 1,075 Meters (3,536.90 ft)
SKILL: Capital Ship Piloting: August-class corps transport
CREW: 7,024, Gunners: 94, Skeleton: 3,050/+10
CREW SKILL: Astrogation 4D+1, Capital Ship Gunnery 4D, Capital Ship Piloting 5D, Capital Ship Sensors 3D+2, Capital Ship Shields 4D
TROOPS: 150 (50 Naval Troopers + 100 Stormtroopers)
PASSENGERS: 80,000 Imperial Army Troopers
CARGO CAPACITY: 170,000 metric tons
CONSUMABLES: 2 years
RESTOCKING COST: 637,056,400 Crs.
COST: 1,443,000,000 Crs. (new)
HYPERDRIVE MULTIPLIER: x2
HYPERDRIVE BACKUP: x12
NAV COMPUTER: Yes
MANEUVERABILITY: 0D
SPACE: 4
HULL: 7D+1
SHIELDS: 4D+1
SENSORS:
Passive: 40/0D
Scan: 80/1D
Search: 160/2D+2
Focus: 4/4D
WEAPONS:
4 Turbolaser Batteries
Fire Arc: 2 front, 1 right, 1 left
Crew: 4
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 3-15/35/75
Atmosphere Range: 6-30/70/150/km
Damage: 7D
10 Turbolaser Cannons
Fire Arc: 5 right, 5 left
Crew: 2
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 3-15/35/75
Atmosphere Range: 6-30/70/150/km
Damage: 5D
20 Quad Laser Cannons
Fire Arc: 5 front, 5 right, 5 left, 5 back
Crew: 2
Scale: starfighter
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 1-3/12/75
Atmosphere Range: 100-300/1.2/2.5 km
Damage: 4D
6 Tractor Beam Projectors
Fire Arc: 3 right, 3 left
Crew: 3
Skill: Capital Ship Gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-5/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 1-5/15/30
Damage: 4D
STARFIGHTER COMPLEMENT: 2 squadrons of TIE/In's, 1 squadron of TIE Bombers
SUPPORT CRAFT: 4 Lambda-class shuttles, 2 Katarn-class boarding shuttles, 4 Grek-class troop shuttles, 4 MU-3-class shuttles, 2 Aegis-class combat shuttles, 2 AIC-4-class drop-ships, 12 F-7-class drop-ships, 12 MT-191-class drop-ships, 10 Warlord-class drop-ships
GROUND EQUIPMENT: Has room for 7,000 vehicles of all types (from speeder bikes to AT-AT's)
CAPSULE: The development of the August-class corps transport is one of the few instances of real cooperation between the Imperial Army and the Imperial Navy. The ship was purpose built to transport all of the men and equipment of an entire Imperial Army Corps. The August can land 6,708 fully equipped troopers and 583 combat vehicles at one time using all of it's 52 support craft. In addition, the August has 24 TIE/In's to provide escort to the surface and 12 TIE Bombers to provide direct combat support. The August also has an impressive array of firepower with it's turbolaser emplacements and it's anti-starfighter system.
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[Kemper Boyd]

That homebrew looks otherwise fine, except the ship seems to be a bit on the small side for a full corps, considering that they are not just troop transports but are supposed to be able to easily disgorge a large number of troops fast.

Maybe I would double the length and remove some of the armament it carries, considering that they aren't combat vessels and are always escorted by at least two Strike Cruisers. Likewise with the TIE complement: too inefficient to give a ship like that half a wing of TIEs, considering that troop lines practically never operate by themselves.

I'm imagining that the ship could be shaped like an upsidedown U-shape, with a long hangar deck running through the length of the ship to give maximum room for dropships and shuttles to launch, since being able to land as much troops as possible at once would be one of the main reasons to use ships like these.