- Thor’s Hammer Assault Shuttle
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Engineering Specifications
- þ: 8,000,000,000W
- Mass: 2,000,000kg
- Length: 20m
- Max Acceleration: 89.4m/s/s
- Propulsion: It is a flying tokamak.
- Special Features: Can accelerate in any direction
- Crew: 16 Suited Marines (Planned, although it can hold more or less)
- Ship Design Focus: Getting marines to where they need to be.
Combat Specifications
Missile Platform Modification
- Sol Tzu Attack Rating: 11,466
- Crew: 2 Marines
- 64 missiles
- 1 Flig of magnitude 32
- 1 laser of magnitude 32
Thor’s Hammer is not designed as a ship on ship an attack vessel, it is designed as a ship to ship marine transport. It holds enough fire power to be a threat to small craft in ship on ship but it is built for incredible manoeuvrability with the aim to dodge anything fired at it from the target it is flying at.
It considered the most beautiful ship ever built, with a metallic honeycomb outer shell with honeycomb caps that independently open. It is a flying tokamak that was not possible before the invention of Superamic could nullify magnetic fields.
Shaped like a flattened cylinder it is honeycomb all over except for a diamond screen at the front. It is possible for a marine to blow out the front screen for either an emergency exit or as part of an assault. The front screen can also be hinged down and reclosed but general access is through the port side door that is effectively a hole created by folding back honeycomb exterior.
It is almost never done, but the shuttle can be modified hold up to 64 missiles in what would be the shuttle bay. These can then be ejected out the port door where they would launch themselves, but more likely fired out the flig.
Anything can be attached to a shuttle as the flight computer can have designated propulsion dead zones, where it will never open the honeycomb regardless of required manoeuvring. Most young marines ride atop a Thor’s Hammer in a dead zone in order to show bravery and get respect from established marines. The experience of seeing a tokamak manoeuvring flare in front of your face is generally considered terrifying.