Boarding Shuttle

By TheBoulder, in Game Masters

I've been looking through the books for an appropriate hyperspace incapable boarding shuttle, for ship to ship or ship to station interaction, but I can't seem to find one! Any ideas or ones that I have missed?



I don't think the Devs have statted anything like that yet. Though there is a boarding tube attachment for Freighters: T9 Stinger Assault Boarding Tube (p61 DC).

I wrote up this for use in one of my games:

Katarn-class Boarding Shuttle

The 28 meter-long Katarn-class boarding shuttle was a Rendili StarDrive design made with a nose-end airlock. It could carry up to 50 troops and 500 kg of equipment, with a crew requirement of 3 people.

Hull Type: Assault Ship
Categories: Starship
Navicomputer: No
Sensor Range: Close
Ship's Complement: Pilot, Co-Pilot/Gunner, Jumpmaster
Encumbrance Capacity: 50
Passenger Capacity: 50
Consumables: One day
Cost: 320,000
Rarity: 8 ®
Customization Hard Points: 0 (0 Remaining)
Weapons:
(1) Forward Mounted Twin Medium Laser Cannon ( Fire Arc : Forward; Damage : 6; Critical : 3; Range : Close; Qualities : Linked 1)
Attachments:
Katarn Assault Boarding Tube (May cut a hole in a docked craft's hull or airlock in 3 rounds.)

Edited by Braendig

No hard points?

I figured a specialized boarding shuttle wouldn't have any room for HPs.

I also noticed that none of the other information made it through the copy/paste. So here's the rest of the info:

Armor: 6

HT: 28

SS: 12

Silhouette: 4

Speed: 3

Handling: -2

Shields: 2/0

I'm open to hearing arguments about hard points, though I'm fairly certain 1 would be the most I can imagine adding.

To me hard points are almost entirely covered by actual points designed for attaching devices. So in that regard a specialized device wouldn't have any.

Stats I cooked up for the campaign I'm currently running:

Aegis Combat Shuttle:

Sil: 4

Speed: 4

Handling: 0

Def 2/-/-/1

Armor 4

Hull 22

Strain 14

Enc 175 (or may carry up to 6 Sil worth of landspeeders or similar vehicles with no single vehicle exceeding sil 3, or 40 Passengers)

Complement: 1 Pilot, 1 Copilot, 2 Gunners.

Consumables: 4 Days

Hard Points: 3

Weapons:

1 Dorsal medium laser cannon turret

1 Ventral medium laser cannon turret

1 Forward Concussion Missile Launcher.

Hindsight I'd probably either drop the HP down, or reduce the base speed to 3...

Cheers guys! Very helpful stuff, thanks.