Widowmaker/varchuk Attack Shuttlepod

[Cybrludite]

Federation Attack Shuttlepod (Widowmaker/Varchuk)
Class & type: Widowmaker Attack Shuttlepod
Commissioning Date: 2375
HULL SYSTEMS
Size: 1
Length: metres
Beam: metres
Height: metres
Decks: 1
Mass: metric tonnes
SUs Available: 320
SUs Used: 315
Hull
Outer <4>
Inner <4>
Resistance
Outer: 2 <0>
Inner: 2 <0>
Ablative: 100 <20>
Structural Integrity Field
Main: Class 1 (Protection 40/60) <13>
[1 Power / 10 Protection / round]
Backup 1: Class 1 (Protection 20) <7>
[1 Power / 10 Protection / round]
PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 3/0/0
Crew Quarters
Basic: 0 <0>
Expanded: 0 <0>
Luxury: 0 <0>
Unusual: 0 <0>
Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [2 Power / round] <4>
Reserve Life Support [1 Power / round] <2>
Emergency Life Support None (crew wears vacc-suits)<0>
Consumables: 2 week’s worth <0>
Replication Systems
Food Replicators None <0>
Industrial Replicator <0>
Medical Facilities: 0 <0>
Recreation Facilities: 0 <0>
Personnel Transport: Jefferies tubes <0>
Fire Suppression System [1 Power / round when active] <1>
Cargo Holds: 0 <0>
Escape Pods <0>
Number: 0
PROPULSION SYSTEMS
Warp Drive
Nacelles: Type 4 <25>
Speed: 4.0/6.0/7.0 [1 Power / .2 warp speed]
PIS: Type A (2.5 hours of Maximum warp) <2>
Impulse Engine
Type: Class 5 (.7c/.9c) [7/9 Power / round] <25>
Acceleration uprating: Gamma (100%)
Location: Aft hull
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power / round when in use] <1>
Impulse Thrusters (+1, +.1c) [2 power when in use] <2>
POWER SYSTEMS
Warp Engine
Type: Class 3/C (generate 200 Power / round) <50>
Location: hull amidships
Impulse Engine: 1 Class 5 (generates 40 Power / round)
Auxiliary Power: None <0>
Emergency Power: None <0>
EPS: Standard Power flow, +30 Power transfer / round <8>
Standard Usable Power: 240
OPERATIONS SYSTEMS
Bridge: Forward <5>
Computers
Core: Forward [5 Power / round] <2>
ODN <3>
Navigational Deflector [5 Power / round] <4>
Range: 10/20000/50000/150000
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Forward hull, ventral
Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power / round] <8>
Range Rackage: Type 1 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 4 LY (.5/.6-1.0/1.1-3/3.1-4.0)
Low Resolution: 10 LY (1/1.1-3.0/3.1-7.0/7.1-10)
Strength Package: Class 2 (Strength 2)
Gain Package: Standard (+0)
Coverage: Standard
Lateral Sensors [5 Power / round] <2>
Strength Package: Class 1 (Strength 1)
Gain Package: Standard (+0)
Coverage: Standard
Navigational Sensors [5 Power / round] <2>
Strength Package: Class 1 (Strength 1)
Gain Package: Standard (+0)
Probes: None, but could swap out Photon Torps for probes if needed<0>
Sensor Skills: 4
Flight Control Systems
Autopilot: Shipboard Systems (Flight Control) 2,
Coordination 3 [1 Power / round in use] <11>
Navigation Computer
Main: Class 2 (+1) [1 Power / round] <2>
Backups: 1 <1>
Inertial Damping Fields
Main <2>
Strength: 7 [3 Power / round]
Number: 1
Backup <.5>
Strength: 5 [2 Power / round]
Number: 1
Attitude Control [.25 Power / round] <.25>
Communication Systems
Type: Class 2 [2 Power / round] <6>
Strength: 2
Security: -1
Security Uprating: Class Gamma (-1)
Emergency Communicatons: No <0>
Holocommunicatons: No <0>
TACTICAL SYSTEMS
Forward Pulse Phaser Array <15>
Type: X Pulse
Damage: 250 [25 Power]
Number of Emitters: 40 (up to 1 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Range: 10/30000/100000/300000
Location: Forward dorsal hull
Firing Arc: 180 degrees forward cone
Firing Modes: Standard
“Tailgun” Phaser Array <23>
Type: VII
Damage: 140 [14 Power]
Number of Emitters: 165 (up to 4 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Gamma (Accuracy 3/4/6/9)
Range: 10/30000/100000/300000
Location: Aft hull Dorsal & Ventral
Firing Arc: 540 degrees Aft
Firing Modes: Standard, Pulse, Wide Beam, Continuous
Forward Dorsal Torpedo Launcher <14>
Standard Load: Type II photon torpedo (200 Damage)
Spread: 4
Range: 15/350000/1500000/4050000
Targeting System: Beta (Accuracy 4/5/7/10)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location: Forward dorsal hull
Firing Arc: Forward, but are self-guided
Forward Ventral Torpedo Launcher <14>
Standard Load: Type II photon torpedo (200 Damage)
Spread: 4
Range: 15/350000/1500000/4050000
Targeting System: Beta (Accuracy 4/5/7/10)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location: Ventral saucer
Firing Arc: Forward, but are self-guided
Torpedoes Carried: 20 <4> - Usually Type II or IX
TA/T/TS: Class Alpha [0 Power / round] <0>
Strength: 7
Bonus: +0
Weapons Skill: 4
Shields (Forward,Aft, Port,Starboard) <4.5x 4>
Shield Generator: Class 2(Protection 210)
[21 Power / shield / round]
Shield Grid: Type A (25% increase to 263 Protection)
Subspace Field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Beta (Threshold 70)
Recharging System: Class 1 (45 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) <8>
Auto-Destruct System <1>
AUXILLIARY SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS
Shuttlebays: You’re kidding, right?
Captain's Yacht: No <0>
The Attack Shuttlepod was designed to pack as much extra firepower as possible into as small a package as possible. It picked up the nickname from the hourglass shaped aft phaser emitter, and its likely life expectancy in combat. It was on the drawing boards of the Eghar Yards for quite a while, but even the Andorian Defense Forces saw little need for it prior to the Dominion War. After a rapid development (prototypes having been tested before) In ADF service, it’s known as the “Varchuk” after a traditional Andorian hand weapon. (Basically 2 stilettos connected with a length of chain.) There’s some talk of making a more advanced version with an Annular Confinement Beam tailgun array, but it’s doubtful that it would be very cost effective on such an attrition unit. Crew consists of a Pilot, Weapons Operator, and a Flight Engineer/Tailgunner.


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If not for physics & law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!

[Highway Hoss]

Finally, someone designs a size 1 ship! It the next-gen killer bee! I could use a ship like this on my fast frigate design (small shuttlebay). A couple of comments:
1. How do you cram 20 photon torpedoes into a 5m x 4m x 2m hull? This shuttle must have mighty big weapon pods. May I suggest an alternate armament scheme? Try dorsal and ventral mounted multi-shot Type V pulse phasers, twin microtorp launchers and high yield single shot torp launchers (prepped before launch) Same punch, less room.
2. While you're at it, I suggest embedding the warp nacelles. (Yeah, I know about the minimum size requirements for embedding warp naceles, but this ship needs all the help it can get.)

[Cybrludite]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Highway Hoss:
Finally, someone designs a size 1 ship! It the next-gen killer bee! I could use a ship like this on my fast frigate design (small shuttlebay). A couple of comments: </font>

Thanks!

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
1. How do you cram 20 photon torpedoes into a 5m x 4m x 2m hull? This shuttle must have mighty big weapon pods. May I suggest an alternate armament scheme? Try dorsal and ventral mounted multi-shot Type V pulse phasers, twin microtorp launchers and high yield single shot torp launchers (prepped before launch) Same punch, less room.
2. While you're at it, I suggest embedding the warp nacelles. (Yeah, I know about the minimum size requirements for embedding warp naceles, but this ship needs all the help it can get.) </font>

Well, the dimensions listed to the ship size are just suggestions. Imagine if I'd added 1 SU of cargo space to the design...33,000 cubic meters in a 40 cubic meter fighter... Must have had a Gallifreyan on the design team. As abstract as the ship design rules are, you're gonna have Murphy's like this show up. It's propably bigger than 5m by 4m by 2m, but it's still small enough to qualify as size 1. I kinda picture it in my head as being shaped like a cropped Iscolese(sp)triangle, with a lifting body underhull, nacelles at the "wingtips", and the top fairly flat, with kind of a spike like centerline. The nacelles block the "tailgun" from shooting to the sides, resulting in the hourglass shaped array. Impulse engines take up most of the "wings"... I may have to sketch it out & borrow my girlfriend's scanner. Anyhoo, the point I was eventually heading towards is that the sharply wedged shape makes it so that you can fit two of them into the space normally taken up by a regular shuttle. While not variable geometry, we could have the wings even fold for storage in the hanger.

Jon

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If not for physics & law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!

[This message has been edited by Cybrludite (edited 07-01-2001).]