Editing Babylon 5 Breaching Pod

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'''Name''': Breaching Pod<br />'''Craft''': Earth Alliance Breaching Pod<br />'''Type''': Breaching Pod<br />'''Scale''': Starfighter<br />'''Length''': 10 meters (estimated)<br />'''Skill''': Space Transports<br />'''Crew''': 1<br />'''Crew Skill''': Astrogation: 4D; Communications: 4D; Sensors: 4D; Space Transports: 4D; Starship Gunnery: 3D+1<br />'''Passengers''': 12 troops<br />'''Cargo Capacity''': 40 kg<br />'''Consumables''': 4 days<br />'''Maneuverability''': 3D+1<br />'''Space''': 5<br />'''Hull''': 2D+2<br />'''Sensors'''
*Passive: 12 / 0D+1
*Scan: 24 / 0D+1
*Search: 36 / 1D
*Focus: 1 / 1D+1
'''Weapons'''
*'''Grapple'''
:Fire Arc: turret<br />Crew:1<br />Scale: starfighter<br />Skill: starship gunnery<br />Fire Control: 1D<br />Range: 5 meters<br />Strength: 3D

'''Miscellaneous''':
*Artificial Gravity: no
*Crew: 1 Pilot
*Average Crew Experience Level: Naval Line
*Stealth: 6 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
*Fusion Engine

'''Description''': The generic method used by nearly all races to bring trained boarding marines (or the closest thing a navy can muster) aboard enemy ships, the breaching pod is little more than an armored shell fitted with a thruster. Using heavy magnetic locking struts and a powerful hull-cutting instrument, the pod attaches itself to an enemy ship or station, burns through the hull and opens to let marines through. They can cause considerable damage in a conflict, so they are best protected by fighter screens and defensive fire from nearby ships.

From the moment a breaching pod launches from its carrying vessel, it is in a great deal of danger from capital ship crossfire, enemy fighters and battlefield chaos. More than a few pods have become slag due to an unexpected fusion reactor breach on their intended target, or from trying to maneuver through a swarm of fighters – who can easily pick off pods at close range without so much as breaking a sweat.

'''Source''':
*Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 154-155)
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