Restricted Vehicle HMP Gunship

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HMP (Heavy Missile Platform) Gunship​

AFFILIATION
Open Market

MANUFACTURER
Haor Chall Engineering

CLASS
Gunship, Transport

ROLE
Combat repulsorcraft

COMPOSITION
Durasteel and Transparisteel

DIMENSIONS
1.3m Length, 9.8m Width, 2.8m Height/Depth

CREW
2 (pilot, gunner)

PASSENGER CAPACITY
12 Battle-droids

CARGO CAPACITY
0.5 Ton

HANGAR CAPACITY
N/A

CONSUMABLES
1 day

SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
The HMP-2 has a top speed of 380 kph and can reach an altitude of 650 meters. It has decent maneuverability.

ARMAMENT

• 2x Pod Multi-Missile Racks (7 Missiles each)
• 2x Wingtip Medium laser cannons
• 2x Twin Light laser turrets
• 1x Groundsweeper Antipersonnel laser cannon

EQUIPMENT

• 1x targeting computer
• 1x integrated comlink
• 1x computerized navigation system
• 2x spotlight 'Eyes'

DESCRIPTION​

The Heavy Missile Platform Gunship was developed during the Clone Wars to serve as a Battle-Droid troop transport and gunship hybrid, originally designed to use nothing but a droid brain to operate. Many millions were produced to keep up with the demands that came from a war on a Galactic scale and not all of them were lost during the war. While the droid brains were seen as dangerous by default due to their history of being used to gun down sentient organics, the gunships themselves were not scrapped outright.

Many of the gunships had their internals re-organised illegally before Haor Chall Engineering was able to secure an Imperial contract dismantling their own former products. Originally they were to remove the droid brains and create enough room for a pilot and a dedicated gunner to nestle snugly within the ship but the need for the gunships dropped sharply with the adoption of Santhe-Rothana's LAAT/IE gunship was taken on as the standard Imperial gunship. With a licence to refit millions of former droid gunships and their biggest buyer closed off to them, Haor Chall Engineering began reselling the refitted gunships on the open market at a lower price.

Slower than their counterparts the LAAT, the HMP were sold to private military contractors and corporations across the corporate sector and outer rim. Age has caught up to the HMP however and none but the most painstakingly maintained can be expected to run at their full speed for very long before the engine starts to overheat. It can still be found in the hands of PMCs and warlords however as a cheap way of being able to call down enough firepower to overwhelm enemies at a dropzone for better suited dropships.

LEGALITY​

Restricted. HMP-2s are combat craft, and are subject to extra licensing requirements and increased scrutiny by authorities.

INTENT​

To bring a canon ship to the site that can be used as a gunship for a player characters and NPC factions, with the added option of being a transport for battle-droids should the character/faction have them available.

RESTRICTIONS​

HMP are military craft, with military-grade weapons and construction, and enough firepower to decimate whole squads of infantry and even heavy vehicles. In PvP, this speeder can only be used against other ships or vehicles; it is to be treated as a starfighter, and is bound by same restrictions starfighters are.

 

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