Babylon 5 Troshantha Assault Shuttle

Name: Troshantha
Craft: Drazi Freehold Troshantha Assault Shuttle
Type: Assault Shuttle
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 25 meters
Skill: Space Transports
Crew: 2; Skeleton: 1/+5
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Space Transports: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1
Passengers: 25 troops
Cargo Capacity: 100 kg
Consumables: 2 weeks
Maneuverability: 3D
Space: 6
Hull: 3D+2
Sensors

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

Weapons

Particle Repeater

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+1
Space Range: 1/3/6
Damage: 5D+1

Grapple

Fire Arc: turret
Crew:1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+1
Range: 5 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

Artificial Gravity: no
Crew: 2 pilots
Average Crew Experience Level: Drazi Line
Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
Afterburners
Fusion Engine

Description:Breaching pods with attitudes, the Troshantha is a bullet fired from a gun – the gun being a carrier and the bullet being filled with bloodthirsty Drazi boarding marines. Only the most homicidal (suicidal?) Drazi pilots, often marines themselves, volunteer for flying a Troshantha into the enemy. Its armored prow and ‘one-switch’ breaching ring makes it possible for the shuttle to simply smash through an enemy ship’s external airlock doors using nothing but momentum or the shuttle’s own particle repeater, then rip into the ship’s decks like a breaching pod would in order to give the troops on board access.

Troshantha rarely fly out of an enemy ship. Either the troops are successful and take the ship by force, not needing to leave at all as they ransack systems and capture officers for interrogation. Or conversely, the ship was too well defended and the marines met a glorious end in its decks and corridors. No properly taught or trained boarding marine would ever give up a boarding action unless victorious or dead…even if the fleet command Or’fa has issued a recall order. After all, there is always a chance – in their minds – that they could take the ship themselves and fly home in it later!

Source:

Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (page 120)
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