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 Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:12 pm Post subject: R.C.S Heavy Assaultboat |
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R.C.S Heavy Assaultboat
Craft: SoroSuub/Corellia StarDrive R.C.S Heavy Assaultboat
Type: Assaultboat
Era: Clone Wars
Affiliation: Separatists
Source: MasterMatso, stats by +Oliver Queen
Scale: Starship
Length: 6 meters
Skill: Starfighter piloting: R.C.S.
Crew: None (droid brain)
Crew Skill: Starfighter piloting 3D/4D (4D+2) ,Starship gunnery 3D/4D (4D+2) *
Cargo Capacity: None (25 kg)
Consumables: None
Cost: 23,000 credits (115,000 new; 30,000 used)
Maneuverability: 1D(2D)
Space: 7
Atmosphere: 350; 1,000 km/h
Hull: 2D
Shields: None
Sensors:
--Passive: 20/0D
--Scan: 40/1D
--Search: 60/2D
--Focus: 3/3D
Weapons:
2 Heavy Laser Cannon (fire-linked)
--Fire Arc: Front
--Skill: Staship Gunnery
--Fire Control: 1D (2D)
--Space Range: 1-3/12/25
--Atmosphere Range: 100-30/1.2/2.5 km
--Damage: 5D
Light Autoblaster
--Fire Arc: Front
--Skill: Starship gunnery
--Fire Control: 1D (2D)
--Space Range: 1-3/10/20
--Atmosphere Range: 100-300/1/2 km
--Damage: 3D+1
Ion cannon
--Fire Arc: Front
--Skill: Starship gunnery
--Fire Control: 1D (2D)
--Space Range: 1-3/7/36
--Atmosphere Range: 100-300/7/3.6 km
--Damage: 4D
Proton Torpedo or Concussion Missile Launcher (12+4+4 total ordnance)
--Fire Arc: Front
--Skill: Starship gunnery
--Fire Control: 1D (2D)
--Space Range: 1/3/7
--Atmosphere Range: 30-100/300/700
--Damage: 9D/7D
* stats are for the TH-1X/TH-1A (estimated performance of 2A)
Game Notes:
--Remote Control Antennae: located at the rear of the vessel, this fragile piece of equipment Can be targeted at +2D difficulty. Treat heavily damaged or greater as destroyed. If destroyed the ship will continue in a straight line as though controls ionized.
Capsule: Remote Control System (R.C.S.) TH-1X heavy assaultboat, a collaboration of SoroSuub Corporation and Corellia StarDrive (C.S.D.), was a one of it's kind starship. It was unique because it had no pilot. As the name suggests the first versions of this craft were controlled remotely, from a command cruiser, that could only be away up to 100k kilometers form the assaultboats. With coming of the experimental version TH-1X-1 and the operational one, code named TH-1A, the vessels begun to have an autonomous control system in a form of an AI, still being capable to give back the control to a command center.
The basic armament of the craft was a pair of coupled heavy laser cannons, by SoroSuub, a light automatic blaster and usually an ion cannon, both at the top of the longest pylon. The ship was capable of taking on board an additional set of different firing solutions, like attachable rockets or torpedoes. It could take up to twelve of these on the main pylon, and additionally four, attached to the ends of the small pylons. With such firepower this class of assaultboats was a very dangerous opponent.
The Heavy Assaultboat was used by the fleets of Sluis-Van-Sector Independent Republic and Corellian Remote-Systems during the Clone War, though with little success. Galactic Republic forces quickly learned to exploit it's main weakness - the communication system. Republican, and later also Imperial, fighter pilots usually attacked the ship's antennas on the rear, causing it loose connection with the command cruiser, thus rendering them useless. The AI system of the ships was not good enough to actively fight against naturally intelligent pilots. Eventually it was withdrawn and the project itself cancelled, even though a TH-2A version with new AI and communication systems was almost ready. A living crew version of the craft was also being constructed during the time, but it faced the same doom as it's AI counterpart. The unique cross shape of the project was yet to be seen on the battlefields of the galaxy many years later, this time in the form of the famous Slayn & Korpil's B-Wing starfighter.
TH-1X (remote piloted)
TH-1X-1 (prototype with autonomous AI)
TH-1A (full production model with autonomous AI)
TH-2A (stronger AI and better communication systems, nearly completed but unfinished)
TH-3 (living crew version, never started production)
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garhkal
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Where exactly did this image/concept come from?
And i agree. It looks like an overgunned, weaker version of a B-wing.
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