UNS Almayer

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The UNS Almayer, is an Zumwalt-class patrol transport. The UNS Almayer was the 4th ship in the class produced. The main advantages of the Zumwalt patrol transport over other forms of transports and combat ships is its small footprint and rapid response time. However, the marines that serve aboard these patrol transports are volunteer forces that are a mixture of fresh troops and combat veterans. Their long voyages in the outer territories do not consist of luxuries found more commonly in the core systems.

The UNS Almayer underwent a Block 78A retrofit in, which replaced many of the sensors and maintenance areas. Along with that, due to rising tensions between Weston Yamada and various outer rim colonies, pressured a need to include a corporate representative onboard. While the sum for this service was never officially disclosed, the UNS Almayer is equipped with an office for a company representative and sent to patrol corporate outer-rim colonies.

Specifications

Length: 278 meters

Crew Capacity: 120 (320 with cryosleep capsule storage)

Empty Weight: 35,000 tonnes

Gross Weight (full weight): 43,000 tonnes

Hangar Space: 2 dropships, 4 Multipurpose Trucks, 1 APC, 1 light tank

Engine

  • WY-Milling S-52 Fusion Reactor: A Type V linear fusion drive provides the main ship mode of movement when not in FTL travel. Capable of generating 1.2 terawatt of engine power.
  • Thiokol-Rockwell Dynamic Cygnus 7 hyperdrive tachyon shunt: A surprisingly efficient FTL engine capable of a dynamic power setting. Going from a lower power of traveling .75 light years per day to an afterburner of 1.3 light years per day. The UNMC often uses a regular speed of 1 light year per day for patrol craft in order to avoid excessive fuel usage.

Countermeasures

  • "HALVE BLACK" ceramic tiles. These contain various metamaterials that distort active sensors in the radio to infrared range; they provide a delayed time before an enemy ship can acquire a target lock. Only effective when the engine is not burning.
  • AN/UPT-5 "SILENT" electronic countermeasure suite. Capable of identifying and employing various techniques to disarm or disable various guidance systems. Its capabilities also include jamming communication systems present on other craft, often in a bid to scramble the enemy.
  • VPES-3. Vapor Ejector System, a specialized gas is ejected from the ship to form a sort of cloud, distorting the ship's characteristics against enemy detection. Often used as a last resort for retreat from combat or during daring close range fighting as the gas also obscures sensors aboard the UNS Almayer.

Sensors

  • AN/PIR-27 "Percy", a passive IR sensor that is used most of the time to spot enemy craft.
  • AN/SPQ-337, a phased array active radar that is used to track enemy ships and missiles. It is more covert than most radar arrays due to its use of background frequencies that are filtered out by passive and active detection systems.
  • AN/PRQ-76, a passive radar sensor that is used for detecting any active radar transmissions within a star system.
  • AN/LIDAR-7, an active short range sensor often used to gain detailed information about enemy ships through the use of LIDAR and LADAR systems.

Armament

  • Two 0.75cm/140 Mark 74 Atomic railguns. Used as primary weapons in a direct conflict between spacecraft. Fires either kinetic penetrator rounds or shrapnel rounds.
  • 6 PD/L-122 Block 2A Point Defense lasers. Used to destroy inbound enemy missiles or any other minor objects that might threaten the ship (such as discarded missile parts).
  • 12 Mark 33 ASAT-LS systems. Cold launch tubes that can fire a few varieties of missiles, the most common being the ASAT-21 ‘Rapier IV’ missile used against satellites and other spacecraft and the BGM-227 ‘Sledgehammer’ missile which is used in ground attacks.

Credit to the CM-SS13 wiki, most of this page was ported and reworked for use in RMC.