Polaris (DropShip Class)

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Polaris
Production information
Manufacturer	Alshain Naval Yards
Production Year	3100
Use	Ground Assault and Support Heavy Vehicle and Battle Armor Transport
Type	Military Spheroid
Tech Base	Clan Advanced
Technical specifications
Mass	6,000 tons
Structural Integrity	15
Length	115 meters
Width	115 meters
Height	96 meters
Drive System	Fusion Engine
Safe Thrust	3
Max Thrust	5
Fuel (tons)	160
Fuel (days)	1400
Armament	4x Cruise Missile 50s 3x Ultra AC-20s 14x Gauss Rifles 5x ER Large Lasers 39x Large Pulse Lasers 30x AMS
Armor	Ferro-Aluminum Armor
Crew	3 Officers 5 Enlisted/Non-Rated 13 Gunners 220 Bay personnel
Escape Pods/Life Boats	0/35
Heat Sinks	175 Double Heat Sinks
Communications System	Unspecified
Targeting Tracking System	Unspecified
BV (2.0)	14,615

Description

The Polaris is a Clan Ground Fire Support / Transport type DropShip which was produced in limited numbers during Second Combine-Dominion War. A specialized design, it was conceived by Clan Ghost Bear's war against Draconis Combine and their Clan allies, Clan Nova Cat.

Design History

Designed as a artillery vessel with a vehicle and battle armor carrier capacity, the Polaris was most noted for its missile based artillery batteries, which became notorious during the battle of Irece. It was during this campaign beginning in June 3100, is Rasalhague's galaxies landed their Polaris dropships and were used to bombard Nova Cat's capital city of New Barcella into rubble. In this campaign they gained a negative reputation.

Only twenty of these ships were produced, further production deemed unnecessary need for a artillery fire support vessel and their limited lift capacity to heavy tanks and battlesuit infantry Supernova. All were used in the Second Combine-Dominion War, with majority of the ships assigned to the Omega Galaxy and Star worth of the ships assigned to Beta Galaxy.

Three Polaris would be lost during the conflict, with only a few of these ships were retained in active service with Clan Ghost Bear after the 3100. With Beta Galaxy retain most active of these ships of the Class, Omega Galaxy would loss their ships disperse some to Alpha Galaxy and Galaxies associated with former KungsArmé. Twelve these ships were mothballed and would not see service again until 3144, when they were used as part of effort to absorb Vega Protectorate into the Dominion.

Weapons and Equipment

In it's role as a Fire Support Vessel, ship's weaponry is geared to project artillery at considerable distances. In this role, the ship mount's four Class-50 Cruise Missile in it's nose with forty rounds of ammunition to supply the launchers. Protecting the ship's hull aside from large array of anti-missile system is 30 tons of ferro-aluminum armor.

Rounding the ship's regular weaponry includes;

• Nose: Three Class-20 Ultra Autocannons, an array five ER Large Lasers, four Large Pulse lasers and five Anti-Missile Systems.
• Front & Aft Left/Right: All include three Gauss Rifles, Four Large Pulse Lasers and five Anti-Missiles Systems.
• Aft: Three Large Pulse Lasers, two Gauss Rifles, and five Anti-Missile Systems.

Cargo

• Bay 1: Heavy Vehicles - 20 Units (4 Doors)
• Bay 2: Battle Armor Point - 10 Points (2 Doors)
• Bay 3: Cargo Space - 217 Tons (1 Door)

Related Designs

• Fortress-Class Assault DropShip - Polaris was loosely based on this dropship due to its artillery weaponry.

Notes

The Polaris stats were adjusted after it publication, this included changing of the two Cruise Missile 120 to the quad of four Cruise Missile 50s.

The Master Unit List for the Polaris also corrects the introduction year to 3100 verse the original PDF's listing it introduced in 3099.

Bibliography

• Historical: Wars of the Republic Era