U.S.S. Sulaco
2nd Batt., 9th Regt. United States Colonial MarinesA
Conestoga-class starship, the Sulaco has a mass of 78,000 metric tons and length 385 meters. She's primarily a troop carrier, having been originally designed as a troop & logistics transport and subsequently converted into a rapid-response military transport. Sulaco carries two UD4L dropships and has sufficient life support capabilities for 90 crew and passengers. In an emergency, as many as 2,000 troops can be placed in hibernation in the main cargo hangars.
Armaments include:
* Eight long-range ASAT missiles fired from the dorsal launch bay.
* Two forward-firing 800 MeV Neutral Particle Beam weapons, which can disable the electronics systems of
enemy spacecraft out to a range of 100,000 km.
* Four (two twin turrets, one dorsal, one ventral) Kinetic Energy Railguns.
* Two 80 MW point-defence lasers for vaporizing incoming missiles and kinetic energy rounds.
* Ventral mine dispenser, with a magazine of up to 60 orbital fragmentation mines.
* Up to 80 guided re-entry vehicles including bunker buster, high-explosive, and nuclear warheads.
* 20 decoy ballutes and two maneuverable decoy drones in after ventral bay.
She is powered by a 3.6 terawatt fusion reactor using high density lithium hydride for fuel. Sublight propulsion is provided by four GF-2400 rocket motors using industrial carbon-diamond as reaction mass. FTL propulsion is provided by a hyperdrive tachyon shunt, with a maximum speed of 0.74 light years per sidereal day. The Sulaco's hull panels are constructed from radar absorbing material, which reduces the ship's radar cross section to low levels.
