INTACT Ship Recognition Guide

Solar Federation

Solar Fleet

Norway-class Battleship Image

Agility: 1

Speed: 2

Electronics: 3

Stealth: 1

Armor: 1 / 6 / 10

Shields: 3

Durability: 50

Armament

• 4 Heavy Beam Cannons
• 3 Antiship Missile Launchers
• 6 Burst Cannons
• 3 Cluster Missile Pods
• 1 Scattering Beam PD Array

Small Craft

• 16 mobile suits
• 2 Marine assault shuttles

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive

The SFN mainline battleship is designed for leading smaller fleets and providing a heavy anti-capital ship strike capability. It was built to take into account modern mobile suit tactics, and thus carries more anti-suit weaponry and superior targeting compared to the previous generation of battleships, at the cost of only marginal increases in firepower. Combined with the large air wing, a Norway-class is a tough target for even an elite suit squadron.

INTACT

INTACT ships, unlike conventional Solar Fleet designs, are designed firstly as home bases for their onboard mecha complement. The mobile suits are seen as the primary offensive arm, with shipboard gunnery primarily intended to provide long-range fire support for mobile suits. INTACT ships also have relatively large marine complements, as befitting their role as roving troubleshooters.

London-class Heavy Cruiser Image

Agility: 2

Speed: 3

Electronics: 4

Stealth: 2

Armor: 1 / 5 / 8

Shields: 2

Durability: 30

Armament

• 4 Beam Cannons
• 3 Antiship Missile Launchers
• 6 Burst Cannons
• 3 Cluster Missile Pods
• 1 Scattering Beam PD Array

Small Craft

• 12 mobile suits
• 2 Marine assault shuttles

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive
• Transatmospheric (Slow)
• G-Float System

Vessels such the SFS Calais are heavy cruisers designed for long-range unsupported operations. They have large stores and fuel capacity, as well as a scaled down version of the battleship drive system and weapon emplacements. These ships also have superior sensors and ECM system compared to the rest of the fleet, as well as large suit hangars. Unfortunately, the armor on the London-class is fairly weak for its size, and they must rely on ECM and superior range to survive a capital ship onslaught.

Shanghai-class Frigate [1]

Agility: 3

Speed: 3

Electronics: 2

Stealth: 2

Armor: 1 / 4 / 6

Shields: 2

Durability: 15

Armament

• 1 Beam Cannon
• 2 Light Pulse Cannon
• 3 Antiship Missile Launchers
• 2 Burst Cannons
• 2 Cluster Missile Pods
• 1 Scattering Beam PD Array

Small Craft

• 4 mobile suits
• 2 Marine boarding pinnaces

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive
• Transatmospheric (Slow)
• G-Float System

One of the more common INTACT enforcement vessels, the Shanghai class is typically deployed on lower-priority and patrol missions, freeing up large craft such as the London heavy cruisers for more demanding operations. This often sees them out in the Rim, keeping tabs on exhumans, smugglers and other deviants.

League of Outer Stars

CN-19 Bison Heavy Lift Dropship Image

Agility: 3

Speed: 3 (2 loaded)

Electronics: 1

Stealth: 2

Armor: 1 / 3 / 5

Shields: 1

Durability: 5

Armament

• None

Cargo

• 3 Mobile Suits or equivalent cargo

Special

• Transatmospheric (Fast)

The CN-19 Bison is the standard League heavy dropship, the first spaceframes having entered service almost thirty years ago. Blunt and inelegant-looking they are nonetheless amply gifted in spare thrust and can lift substantial loads into orbit on aerolift trajectories or drop them down through atmosphere equally well. They are in fact one of the heavier classes of 'shuttles', at the upper limit of aerolift format. Larger unitary loads are normally loaded into vertical-lift vehicles (HLVs), but the abort and in-atmospheric transit ability of aerolift types such as the CN-19 has made them the preferred option for many operators.

While originally intended to serve the varied militaries of the League as a mobile suit transport, by the time the Bison reached production it was marketed to civilian operators as well as the CC-190 and has subsequently become a common site among freightlines across a substantial segment of the Ring. Differences between the sister families are relatively minor, mostly involving elimination or simplification of military-grade components.

Saggitan Union

Cascade-series Main Battle Carrier

Agility: 3

Speed: 2

Electronics: 3

Stealth: 2

Armor: 1 / 4 / 7

Shields: 3

Durability: 22

Armament

• 1 Beam Cannon
• 12 Antiship Missile Launchers
• 1 Burst Cannon
• 4 Drone Controllers
• 1 Laser PD Array

Small Craft

• 12 mobile suits
• 2 hangar pods, each of which can hold 3 mobile suits or 1 mobile armor/super robot.
• 1 CN-19 Bison Heavy Lift Dropship (carried externally)
• 1-3 Marine assault or utility shuttles (only 1 may be carried internally)

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive
• ZTT Jump Drive
• Transient Flux Drive
• Transient Diffuser

A recent Union cruiserweight warship, the Cascade is an unusual design, enabled only by the application of Transient Flux drive technology to large spaceframes. While performance benefits to TF drives are minimal for warships, Union designers were able to turn conventional starship design wisdom on its head and placed the drives at the center of the spaceframe. While this had ramifications for other design features, it resulted in a ship that was surprisingly agile for its size.

The unorthodox layout of the Cascades place the primary mobile suit bays in a long tail extending aft of the engineering/main hull, with a pair of open-format hangar pods on the sides of the main hull, giving the appearance of a fat T-shape from above. A 'chin' houses the primary missile launchers and wide-angle sensors, with the emission equipment of the flux drive and diffusers behind. A docking clamp for a single CN-19 Bison is fitted after of the dorsal sensor tower, and as per Union norms, various miscellaneous equipment, tie-downs and subsidiary external clamps festoon the hull.

Officially classed as a 'Main Battle Carrier', the Cascades fill that role quite well. Able to deploy 18 mobile suits into battle (or 21 if the onboard Bison is carrying a warload) or up to 36 if automated slimline suits such as Kestrel series and support them with its large quantity of onboard missiles and long-range beam fire, the Cascade can pose a substantial threat, despite the general inferiority of League/Union mobile suits.

Pirate and Local Militias

Skinner-class Escort Image

Agility: 4

Speed: 3

Electronics: 1

Stealth: 1

Armor: 1 / 3 / 6

Shields: 1

Durability: 10

Armament

• 6 Torpedo Tubes
• 3 Turreted Autorails
• 4 Cluster Missile Pods
• 1 Laser PD Array

Small Craft

• Up to 2 mobile suits may be carried externally

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive

The Skinner class is an old patrol ship built en-masse by the Space Independence Alliance. Lightly armed with a trio of large-caliber autocannons for mobile suit defense, their torpedoes can still pose a threat to larger ships. Obsolete in the new SolFed fleet, most of these craft were refitted with a jump drive to give them interstellar range and moved to outsystem colonies for local defense, where a substantial number eventually went rogue or were captured by pirates. As such they represent a fairly typical light pirate ship.

Civilian

Seraphim

A typical Naamah 'Research Frigate'

Naamah-class Research Frigate (stats represent typical militarized version)

Agility: 3

Speed: 3

Electronics: 3

Stealth: 2

Armor: 1 / 3 / 5

Shields: 2

Durability: 10

Armament

• 1 Pulse Cannon (concealed)
• 4 Antiship Missile Launchers (concealed)
• 3 Burst Cannons
• 1 Laser PD Array

Small Craft

• Up to 6 mobile suits

Special

• Continuous-Wormhole Drive
• Transatmospheric (Slow)

The Naamah is the standard Seraphim interstellar transport, a versatile design that entered service twenty years ago to replace the various prewar ships that the Seraphim were using at the time. Capable of atmospheric descent using onboard countergrav, equipped with rugged landing gear for rough-field landings and having large fuel reserves, the Naamah is ideal for use out in the Rim and beyond. Its hull is a fairly conventional cruciform shape, with fusion drives, CWD generator and fuel bunkerage in the after block. The two side blocks are independently self-contained living and operations sections, each with sufficient environmental hardware to support the entire ship. The bow block is the largest, consisting mostly of a spacious modular mission bay with the ship's primary sensors at the nose.

A large number of Naamahs have been built, mostly for the Seraphim though an increasing number (often older, second-hand hulls) have entered service with other governments, organizations or private owners. The 'mission module' design lends itself to easy modification for more specialist roles. These frigates also serve as surrogate warships for the Seraphim, factory fitted to include combat-rated shielding, enhanced electronics and multiple weapons and typically acting as motherships for 4 to 6 mobile suits. While these ships cannot compete with purpose-designed warships in direct combat, they are capable enough to protect Seraphim interests in the various brushfire conflicts of the known galaxy.