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?
Boarding Shuttle
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.)
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.