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NSSunset — OSA 'Chrysaor'-Type Super-Heavy Transport

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Published: 2019-06-22 23:14:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2962; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 17
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Description For NationStates; Modeled in DoGa with various parts, glues, and unguents.

Yes, Chrysaor was not a flying anything. Greek mythology is weird. 

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A variant of the 'Bayard'-Type Super-Heavy Gunship, the 'Chrysaor' is that most important but often overlooked of beasts. By stripping out the forward, rear, and ventral railgun turrets as well as the dorsal launch tubes, OSA designers were able to save enough weight to add a large volume of open transport containers instead. This particular unit is moving a light recon company to forward positions and this is an excellent example of the role it plays - move things here and there in large volume.

Four open bays have been fitted under the nose, each compartmentalized with their own bulkheads and access hatch. These are suitable for infantry and very light infantry support vehicles, such as ATVs, hoverbikes, and similar. Behind these are six much larger bays, also with their own hatches, and these can accommodate Helion Infantry ExoSkeletons or - if one is very careful - a single 'Uhlan'-Type per bay. This particular unit does exactly that with two Uhlans, another pair of Hussars, twenty-some Helions, and two platoons of dismounted infantry. 
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NO-SoupForYou [2021-04-16 12:48:47 +0000 UTC]

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Kashim27 [2019-06-23 16:09:36 +0000 UTC]

What's the weight of it?

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NSSunset In reply to Kashim27 [2019-06-23 19:16:40 +0000 UTC]

'I am not an aerospace engineer, I do not play one on TV, nor did I sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.'

With the legal stuff out of the way, my back-of-the-Taco-Bell-napkin-in-crayon estimate is somewhere around 1400 tons. Futuristic materials, repulsor/anti-grav systems, fusion-or-better power plant - all of which likely mean I'm off by factors. Also why I don't generally do hard numbers like that.

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