The S.D.F.-6 Olympus class Super Battle Fortesses:
The REF decided to build most of their starships based of starship designs they already had a basic plan for instead of designing completely new starship designs from the beginning. This has allowed for the far more rapid designing of starships and the use of systems already standard on their starships. For their heaviest ship design, they decided to modify the SDF-3 Super Dimensional Battle Fortress to build they heaviest starships. The resulting ship class, the SDF-6 Class Super Dimensional Battle Fortresses was the result. Not including the twin reflex cannons, these ships have virtually equal firepower with a CAF Protector class battleships and yet carry twice as many fighters than a CAF Packmaster class carriers. In addition, the ships will often carry 48 pepperbox launchers on external racks on the ship. The SDF-4 and SDF-5 where additional Super Battle Fortresses built within the Robotech universe, giving the SDF-6 as the first SDF designation available to the new class of battle fortresses. All ships of this class are manufactured in a Robotech Factory Satellite the REF was able to find in a very isolated system within Kreegor space.
REF reflex and laser weaponry systems are slight smaller than the Three Galaxy's equivalents, allowing the SDF-6 to mount a larger number of energy weapon mounts and yet have larger space for fighters. Because the REF was weak on point defense weaponry and missile weapon, they elected to use standard systems from the Three Galaxies. The ship also replaced the DS-2 Full barrier system with variable shields because they have higher flexibility and allow for fire out of them. The ships armor uses the more advanced alloys used in Phase World which allows the ship to withstand far more abuse than the original SDF-3.
The ships now use a combination of both anti-matter and protoculture systems. This has allowed the ship to have a longer duration. Because this ship uses a fold drive system, the ship can travel distances far more rapidly than ships from other governments within Phase World
Even though these ships have a lot of firepower and are capable of acting as battleships, most captains prefer to operate the ships as carriers and stay on the edges of the battle. These ships can carry far more fighters than ships in the Three Galaxies because the repair and maintenance equipment is designed to be much smaller that those carried on ships in the Three Galaxies. Another factor is that the starship carries far less troops shuttles. These ships carry more fighters than the original SDF-3 because the number of Destroid have been decreased to add more space. Like the original SDF-3, the SDF-6 class have the ability to build and maintain weapons, cyclones, veritechs, destroids, and fighters.
As much of the original recreational facilities have been left intact on this class of ship but some of the ships spaces have been reduced to provide for additional magazines, to provide for additional crew, and to provide for the addition of point defense weaponry. This ship has no provisions for carrying full size Zentraedi although a few could be housed in the hanger bays in an absolute emergency. Because of the removal of full sized Zentraedi, the other equipment such as the sizing chamber has been removed as well.
This starship design uses modified starship speed and ranges. See Revised Starship Rules for Phase World for more details.
Vehicle Type: SDF-6
Class: Space fold Battleship/ Battle Carrier.
Crew: 10405 total (533 in Command Tower, 750 in each laser arm,
8372 on main decks of ship).
Troops: 8120 Total (2200 Veritech Pilots, 200 Destroid Pilots,
3500 Cyclone Riders, 560 Glitterboy Pilots, 1180 Zentraedi Warriors with
50% being Officers, and 480 additional crew members)
Total of Crew and Troops: 18,525, can fit 1,000 passengers
STANDARD MECHA COMPLEMENT
Veritechs: 1,296 total
| 504 | VAF-9C Contra Grav Alpha Combat Model Fighters | |
| 12 | VAF-9ECM Contra Grav Alphas with Hurricane Jammer. | |
| 108 | VAF-9STEALTH Contra Grav Alphas with Shadow Cloaking Device. | |
| 372 | VBF-3C Contra Grav Beta Combat Models. | |
| 108 | VBF-3STEALTH Contra Grav Betas with Shadow cloaking Device. | |
| 192 | Supers Vindicator Upgrade |
| 60 | QF-4000C Star Phantom Unmanned Fighters | |
| 6 | QF-4000ECM Star Phantom Unmanned Fighters with Hurricane Jammer. | |
| 30 | QF-4000STEALTH Star Phantom Fighters with Shadow Cloaking Device |
| 45 | REF Excaliburs Upgrades | |
| 45 | REF Gladiators Upgrade | |
| 15 | REF MAC III Upgrade | |
| 45 | REF Raidar X Upgrade | |
| 30 | REF Spartan Upgrade | |
| 1100 | REF Z-2 Zentraedi Officers Battle Pod with Vehicle | |
| 10 | REF Z-3 Cyclops Upgrade | |
| 96 | REF Z-4 Micronised Female Zentraedi Power Armor Upgrade |
| 560 | REEF-USA-G14E Glitterboys |
| 3000 | VR-052 Battlers | |
| 500 | VR-048 Saber | |
| 1500 | VR-038 Light |
| 12 | Horizant Transatmospheric Shuttles | |
| 12 | MTA Titan Upgrades |
M.D.C. by location:
| [1] Main Thrusters (4): | 40,000 each | |
| [1] Secondary Thrusters (8): | 10,000 each | |
| Deck One Dome Hangers (2): | 8,000 each | |
| Main Hanger Doors (2): | 8,000 each | |
| Main Hangers (2, bottom): | 30,000 each | |
| [2] Command Tower/Bridge: | 50,000 | |
| [2] Secondary Bridge: | 50,000 | |
| [3] Main Body ( Middle and Rear of ship): | 200,000 | |
| Outer Hull (Per 40 ft area): | 200 per 40 ft area | |
| [4] Variable force fields: | 15,000 per side (90,000 total) | |
| [5] Pinpoint Barrier (force field)(4): | 5,000 each | |
| Main Armaments: |
| The Main Gun Reflex Cannons (2, Forward 1/3 of ship): | 50,000 each | |
| Laser arms (2, one each side): | 40,000 each | |
| Main Lasers (4, 2 on each arm): | 2,500 each | |
| Zentraedi Style Laser Turrets (48): | 600 each | |
| Cruise Missile Batteries (4): | 1,000 each | |
| Long range Missile batteries (8): | 600 each |
| Secondary Armaments: |
| Point Defense Particle Beams (24): | 200 each | |
| Point Defense Gravity Rail guns (24): | 250 each | |
| Tachyon Scatterguns (12): | 250 each | |
| Medium Range Missile Launchers (8): | 500 each |
Notes:
[1] Destruction of all four main engines will reduce the ships acceleration
by 80%, destruction of Secondary engines will further reduce the ships
acceleration by 15%. With all engines destroyed, the ship will only be
able to accelerate at 5% of normal acceleration using maneuvering thrusters.
[2] The main bridge is exposed but have extremely heavy armor. The
secondary bridge is in the middle of the ship and this is how much damage
needs to be done for a weapon to hit the bridge through the ships armor.
This ship also has an auxiliary bridge. Even if both bridges are destroyed,
the ship can still be piloted from engineering but ship is -3 to dodge
and all weapon systems will be at local control. Weapon hits near the bridge
that do not penetrate
[3] Depleting the MDC of the main body will put the SDF out of commission.
All internal systems will shut down, including life support and internal
gravity. The ship itself will be an unsalvageable floating wreck.
[4] Shields positions can be varied and all could be combined in one
shield. Shields regenerate at the rate of 5% (3000 MDC) per melee
[5] The ship has four mobile shields to support the ship main shields.
Each shield measures 200 ft (61 m) in diameter and can withstand 5,000
MDC each. Each shield regenerates all 5,000 MDC every four seconds. The
shields when operated by a trained operator are +7 to parry (In addition
to skill bonuses) and the operator has eight parries per melee (unless
hand to hand gives more attacks per melee). An untrained operator has their
normal parry bonuses and their hand to hand attacks only. The shields can
be used to parry virtually any attack but follow special rules when attempting
to parry weapons like the heavy particle beam from a Zentraedi flagship.
Speed:
Driving on the Ground: Not possible but can land on a planet
if absolutely necessary.
Sublight: Has a special sublight engine that allows the ship
to travel up to 60 percent of the speed of light. Star Ship can accelerate/decelerate
at the rate of 1.0 percent of light per melee.
Space Fold: The ship is estimated to travel a total of 100
light years per hour in normal space and 500 light years per hour in deep
space such as between galaxies. This allows the ship to travel between even galaxies
very rapidly. Note: When the SDF-6 Ship Class uses its space fold, it will
also transport all vessels /objects within 2 or 3 miles. The ship can further
expand its fold drive to transports all ships in a 50 mile radius. Fold
drive does not work deep in a gravity well (Gravity wells interfere with
fold drives)
Planet Bound: The SDF-6 can land on a planet if absolutely necessary,
but is not designed to maneuver in an atmosphere (uses anti-gravity and
conventional propulsion).
Maximum Range: Unlimited, Combined power systems give it an
estimated life of 50 years of constant use. Sublight engines and space
fold offer virtually infinite range. Carries five years of supplies that
could be stretched to seven in an emergency.
Statistical Data:
Length: 5,322 feet (1,622 meters)
Height: 1,190 feet (362.7 meters)
Width: 924 feet (281.6 meters)
Weight/ Mass: 47 million tons (42.6 million metric tons)
Power System: Anti-Matter with a 50 year life and has a Reflex
Heat Pile System to power protoculture systems. The anti-matter is stored
in a fourth dimensional location which removes the vulnerability of the
power system from critical hits to it.
Gravitational Control System: Internal and External
Cargo: Cargo holds are scattered about the ship that allows
for carrying up to 1 million tons of Cargo in addition to standard compliment
of supplies and ammunition.
Market Cost: The REF does not sell these platforms. Without
factory support, each platform would cost about 50 billion credits each.
The Kreegor, Nurani, and the Black Market would be willing to pay hundreds
of billions of credits for one of these ships for examples of the particle
beam, the special long range laser cannons, the pinpoint barrier system,
and the fold drive system.
WEAPON SYSTEMS:
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