Babylon 5 Shyairel Outpost Lander

Name: Shyairel
Craft: Abbai Matriarchate Shyairel Outpost Lander
Type: Lander
Scale: Capital
Length: 304 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 15; Skeleton: 2/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 2D+1; Capital Ship Piloting: 4D; Capital Ship Shields: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 2D+1
Passengers: 100
Cargo Capacity: 200 metric tons
Consumables: 2 months
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Space: 6
Atmosphere: 330; 950 km/h
Hull: 3D+2
Shields: 1D
Sensors

• Passive: 16 / 0D+1
• Scan: 32 / 1D
• Search: 48 / 1D+1
• Focus: 2 / 2D

Weapons

• 3 Tri-Linked Combat Lasers

Fire Arc: 2 forward, 1 turret
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
Space Range: 1-2/6/11
Atmosphere Range: 2-4/12/22km
Damage: 4D+2

• 2 Particle Impeders

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Atmosphere Range: 10-200/400/800m
Damage:

• Offensive: None
• Intercept: 2D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: yes
• Crew: 15

• Officers: 1
• Pilots: 3
• Sensor Operators: 2
• Crewmen: 9

• Average Crew Experience Level: Abbai Civilian
• Stealth: 8 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Gravitic Shield Generator
• Atmospheric Capable (Aquatic)

Gravitic Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttles: 2
• Hovercraft Cargo Loaders: 10 (count as 2 fighters)

Description: The best supply ship the Abbai Matriarchate ever designed, the Shyairel – meaning ‘armored savior’ in their native tongue – is a well-armed and armored landing craft. Made to land on solid ground or under water whenever necessary, the Shyairel carries huge amounts of cargo and several delivery vehicles to bring it to wherever it is needed. Being a sizeable ship capable of making planetside landings, it often must choose a landing point miles outside of a colony or outpost, relying on its hovercraft cargo vehicles and personnel shuttles to interact with the intended rendezvous.

Being that the expensive craft and its precious cargo will commonly be alone in the wilderness, it carries a powerful set of quad arrays ready to blast anyone coming within five miles with hostile intent. While the gravitic shielding will not function very well when landed, the thick hull and reinforced bulkheads can handle most small vehicle fire – but make the ship rather vulnerable to other atmospheric craft. Even though it can withstand a significant amount of damage, a Shyairel would much rather take on a spacecraft in the void of space than have to defend itself against attack runs on the ground.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 150-151)
• thedemonapostle