Porter-class Shuttle

Class Overview
Name:	Porter-class Shuttle
Manufacturer:	The Initiative
Variants:	Titan-class Heavy-Lift Shuttle Roughneck-class Assault Shuttle Ghost-class Stealth Shuttle
Technical Specifications
Function:	Transport/Landing Craft
Countermeasures:	Ghost Signature Generator Footprint Magnification System Emissions Control System
Armaments:	2x 12.7MM chin-mounted coilgun Hard-points for ASMs
Shield Generators:	Initiative Shield Generator

The Porter-class Shuttle is designed as the primary orbital to surface transport for The Initiative. It is carried by every class of warship. While the Porter-class is designed primarily around personnel-transport, it can also serve as a cargo hauler, though the Titan-class is designed more around transporting heavy amounts of cargo.

Whilst nominally unarmed, military shuttles carry a pair of 12.7MM coilguns, which provides it very limited defensive capabilities, or offensive when used to transport troops into hostile terrain. Additionally, it mounts hard-points for air-to-surface missiles/bombs, allowing it to function, should the need arise, as a bomber.

A disarmed version of the Porter-class of shuttle is widely used by civilian vessels, stations, and on-planet flights.

Basic Specifications

Size

• Length: 16 Meters
• Width: 7 Meters
• Height: 4.8 Meters

Crew Complement

• Minimum: One
• Standard: Three (Pilot, Co-Pilot, Loadmaster)
• Maximum: Variable (Dependent on variant & loadout)

Engines

• Sublight: Electrodeless Plasma Thrusters

Power Plant

Primary: Antimatter Cell

Secondary: Photo-voltaic Cells

Hull Composition

• Hull: Titanium Alloy with a 2.54CM synthetic diamond sheath
• Armor: Synthetic Diamond Plating, Heat & Energy Resistant Ceramic Plating (Military only)

Sensor System

Sensor: Oracle Drive

Target: Unknown

Defensive Systems

Note: These defenses appear only on military Porter-class shuttles.

Composite Armor Close in Weapons System Ghost Signature Generator

Footprint Magnification System Radar Absorbent Coating

Armament

Note: These armaments appear only on military Porter-class shuttles.

(8) ASM/Bomb Hardpoints (2) Chin-mounted 12.7MM nose-mounted coilguns

(1) Grappling Hook Launchers

Other Systems

Emissions Control Belly Mounted Magnetic Docking Clamps

Belly Mounted Soft-Seal Hatchway (intended for rescue & boarding operations, it can form a seal against any almost any surface)