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Colonial Marines
The United States Colonial Marine Corps is
America's interstellar force-in-readiness. The USCM is America's
only major means to forcibly enter a hostile area from space.
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 ARMOURED PERSONEL
CARRIER (APC)
The M577 APC was designed as a lightweight
low-cost vehicle which could be stored onboard a dropship for
easy transport. The chassis is made of bonded titanium, with
a ground clearance of 22cm. The M577 APC has a crew of two, a
driver and a section commander, and can have a maximum of 12
passengers. The interior of the APC is also very spacious, allowing
for room for weapons and equipment storage. The rear of the crew
compartment houses the Tactical Operations centre, where the
section commander can view sensor screens and maintain contact
with the onboard infantry.
Armament
Weapons onboard the APC include dual front-mounted
RE700 20mm gatling cannon, and a rear-mounted turret which moves
on rails which run down the back of the APC. The turret can be
one of three variants: M577 A, which is a phased plasma cannon,
M577 A1, which is a pair of free-electron lasers, or M577 A2,
which is a charged particle beam cannon.
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 UD-4 'CHEYENNE'
DROPSHIP
The UD-4 'Cheyenne' is a versatile dropship
and tactical transport vessel that forms the staple of the USCMC
Aerospace Division. Capable of 16,000kg payloads, the UD-4 has
evolved into the definitive dropship design. With the vessels
ability for verticle take-off landings (VTOL) into hot LZ's,
internal guns, weapon pods and hardpoints for various rockets
and missiles, combined with its orbital capabilities, the Cheyenne
is the perfect close support gunship.
Armament
The typical Cheyenne armaments include a 1x25mm
gatlin gun with 900 rounds, 32x150mm unguided rockets, 12x70mm
unguided rockets, 8x120mm guided rockets, 7 AGM-220 air to ground
missiles, 3 TSAM threat suppression missiles, 3 AIM-90 short
range air-to-air missiles. A Dropship will be typically armed
with the following. 1 gatlin gun, 2 32x150mm unguided rockets,
2 AGM-220 air to ground missiles, and 2 AIM-90 short range air-to-air
missiles.
Powerplant
In order to be able to operate in all speed
and altitude regimes from vertical take-off (VTOL) hover to the
hypersonic trans-atmopheric, the UD-4 requires two types of powerplant.
The main engines are a pair of Replublic Dynamics TF-900 variable-cycle
turbines, each producing 310 kN static thrust. Each engine has
a three-stage fan and seven-stage compressor each driven by single-stage
turbines to produce exceptionally high thrust for low specific
fuel consumption. High-altitude high-speed flight is permitted
by the aft TF-220/A-14 ramrockets. The TR-220 is a combined-cycle
engine capable of ramrocket and scramrocket operation from the
supersonic to hypersonic regimes, and rocket power for transatmospheric
operation. In an assult or shuttle operation, a Cheyenne usually
has sufficient fuel to drop from orbit and achieve a low-orbital
injection on its return. Descents can be made both powered or
unpowered, dependent on the mission profile, though an injection
burn from the rocket engines is usually required to reach a descent
window from orbit.
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 'USS SULACO'
CRUISER
Name: USS Sulaco,
Class-Conestoga starship class
Powerplant:
3.6 terawatt Dry fusion + Cygnus-5 hyperdrive
Also Equipped with XIM-28A Longlance missiles,
Twin Particle Beam Cannons, Emergency Escape Vehicle
The USS Sulaco is the thirteenth in the Conestoga
starship class. It has various weapons and armaments and serves
as a transport as well as a battle cruiser. It not only can fight
its way to the planet where its marine complement is needed,
but then it can also put them onto said planet via dropship.
It can hold four dropships at one time in the launch bay and
has the capacity for more in the cargo hold.
For weapons, the Sulaco uses the XIM-28A Longlance
missile, an anti-satelite missile. As secondary armement, the
Sulaco has two particle beam weapons capable of disrupting the
enemy's communications and sensors. Short range weapons include
laser turrets and a dorsal and ventral railgun.
The Sulaco also carries fragmentation mines
for defensive fields, re-entry vehicles for planet insertion
or nuclear, chemical and biological attacks on an enemy planet.
Decoy ballutes are ejected from the Sulaco in the event of an
attack to confuse enemy radar or sensors. The Sulaco's engine
is powered by a dry fusion plant capable of 3.6 terawatts of
output. This reactor powers four GF-240 for sublight travel and
aCygnus-5 hyperdrive for faster-than-light travel. The reactoris
fuel-efficient, shielded against battle damage, and has a failsafe
system for instant cooling in the case of core-breach.
The Sulaco has multiple cryo-sleep chambers
for its crew and complement, and employs the Emergency Escape
Vehicle 337 in times of emegency during of FTL (Faster than Light)
travel. he EEV 337 has room for four sleep chambers, and when
an emergency ocurs, the chambers are ejected by the Sulaco onto
the EEV. Cryo-sleep is not disturbed.
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