Mecha

Space Mecha

From Spaceships 4 - Fighters, Carriers, and Mecha.

These are piloted, anthropomorphic "giant robots" like those appearing in Japanese mecha anime shows. Despite having arms and legs, many are built for space battles and can be thought of as space fighters with an auxiliary ground-combat mode. Some are fairly hard SF designs with reaction engines and realistic weaponry, while others have exotic technology like stardrives and force fields. Most space-combat mecha are controlled by one or two pilots and mass 30 to 300 tons. Spaceworthy designs are rarely built if reactionless drives or other gravity-control technology is in common use, since if it is available "walking tanks" are superseded by "grav tanks."

Spartan Space-Assault Mecha (TL9)

This is a 30-foot-tall humanoid spacecraft. Equipped with powerful but short-ranged weapons, it is designed for assaulting lunar bases or the interiors of giant space stations, where an attacker may need to transition from space to land combat in a matter of moments! Its limited reaction mass forces it to operate from a mother ship or base. It can't achieve orbit from an Earth-sized planet, but has enough thrust to take off from a small moon or asteroid. It is built using a 30-ton (SM +5) unstreamlined hull.

Front Hull	System
[1-4]	Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 20).
[5]	Defensive ECM.
[6]	Major Battery (fixed mount with 2.5cm very rapid fire conventional gun).
Central	Hull System
[1-2]	Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 10).
[3-4]	Robot Arms.
[5!]	Major Battery (turret with 1 MJ rapid fire laser).
[6]	Fuel Tank (1.5 tons chemical rocket fuel with 0.15 mps delta-V).
[core]	Control Room (C4 computer, comm/sensor 3, and one control station).
Rear Hull	System
[1-2]	Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 10).
[3]	Chemical Rocket Engine (3G acceleration).
[4-5!]	Robot Legs (Move 10; requires only one Power Point for both legs).
[6]	Fuel Tank (1.5 tons chemical rocket fuel with 0.15 mps delta-V).
[core]	MHD Power Plant (two Power Points).

Typical crew is a single pilot.

PILOTING/TL9 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)

TL	Spacecraft	dST/HP	Hnd/SR	HT	Move	LWt.	Load	SM	Occ	dDR	Range	Cost
9	Spartan	20	0/4	12	3G/0.3 mps	30	0.1	+5	1SV	20/10/10	0	$2.45M

Top air speed is 430 mph. On the ground, it has Move 10 and Hnd/SR +3/3.

Hades Battle Mecha (TL9^)

This is a typical space-combat mecha for inexpensive mass production. It is humanoid, standing 60 feet tall. It is equipped with fission rocket thrusters for space maneuverability, two legs for ground movement, and a soft-landing system that lets it drop from orbit. It uses a 100-ton (SM +6) unstreamlined hull.

Front Hull	System
[1-3]	Hardened Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 21).
[4!]	Major Battery (fixed mount with 6cm rapid fire electromagnetic gun).
[5]	Secondary Battery (10 fixed mount 16cm missile launchers).
[6]	Soft Landing System.
[core]	Control Room (C5 computer, comm/sensor 4, and only one control station)
Central	Hull System
[1-2]	Hardened Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 14).
[3-4]	Robot Arms.
[5!]	Major Battery (turret mount with 3cm very rapid fire conventional gun).
[6]	Fuel Tank (five tons uranium saltwater with 2.5 mps delta-V).
Rear Hull	System
[1-2]	Hardened Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor (total dDR 14).
[3]	Nuclear Saltwater Rocket Engine (2G acceleration).
[4-5!]	Robot Legs (Move 10; requires only one Power Point for both legs).
[6]	Defensive ECM.
[core]	MHD Turbine (two Power Points, six hours endurance).

Typical crew is a single pilot.

PILOTING/TL9 (HIGH-PERFORMANCE SPACECRAFT)

TL	Spacecraft	dST/HP	Hnd/SR	HT	Move	LWt.	Load	SM	Occ	dDR	Range	Cost
9^	Hades	30	0/4	12	2G/2.5 mps	100	0.1	+6	1SV	21/14/14*	0	$10.48M

* Hardened.
Top air speed is 350 mph. On the ground, it has Move 10 and Hnd/SR +2/3.

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