Hades-Class

Hades-Class Planetary Assault Dropship/Sloop

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The Assault Sloop is a new development by the Theban Cluster to fill the niche between the corvette and the Frigate classes and as such is oddly armed and proportioned.

The Sloop is hundred and twenty-five meters in length and seventy-five meters in width and height and is actually carried on external racks on larger vessels.

The Hades has oddly enough separated engine nacelles that actually retract into the rear portion of the ship when stored and expand outwards for mobility purposes.

Unlike a standard ship the engine power sources are actually mounted in the nacelles rather than the main body [although there is also another power reactor mounted in the main body as well] the Sloop actually carries a pair of heavy particle beam cannons in the bow to port and starboard on either side of the forward mecha ramp.

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The forward hundred meters of the vessel is the main poariton of the ship with the rear twenty-five meters containing the engine systems which are accessed via a thin narrow corridor that the engine nacelles mount to.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The ship is divided into four main deck areas, the lowest of these is twenty-meters in height and is used to hold mecha and can hold either a squad of ten heavy artillery mecha or a company of 250 medium size combat mecha, the next deck up is the vehicle deck [10 meters in height] and can carry an entire armored infantry company’s worth of vehicles plus a few spares.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The next deck up is the crew area which has the bridge, crew quarters, lounge, kitchen, and a walk way that angles up over the passenger and cargo decks to the rear engineering area and has a crew of twenty-five.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The final two areas of the craft are the passenger decks, the lower deck has seating for an entire company of hard suited troops and is ten meters in height with racked HS sarcophagi along the walls as well as weapon lockers, the next deck up is the bunk room at height of five meters, the next is the officer quarters and the final portion of the sloop is a combined information/communications center for the short battalion that the craft is capable of carrying.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Other armament of the ship includes six sub-capitol missile launch tubes that at angle upwards and are mounted along the upper deck edge with each tube having a five missile magazine.

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