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DAEDALUS CLASS SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE ASSAULT LANDING VESSEL (2030)

RPG Stats by DANIEL HENWOOD ([email protected])
Modified by Kamikazi ([email protected])
Background info provided by the MACROSS ONLINE COMPENDIUM

BACKGROUND

The Daedalus class Assault Landing Vessel was developed in parallel with the Prometheus class of submersible aircraft carriers, but unlike that class, the Daedalus was intended to fight Earth forces. When the first proposals for the Prometheus were drafted, the political department of the Navy wondered how it would enforce order on the Earth after a possible alien attack. For this, they would need surviving forces, and the best way for armed forces to survive would be to be invisible from orbit: hence, the submersible nature of the Daedalus

Named after the mythical Greek inventor and builder of the labyrinth and man-made wings the Daedalus is a work of art. Essentially an immense cross between a landing ship and a submarine the Daedalus class Vessels are unrivalled on the sea's, with the singular exception of their sister ships, the Prometheus class carriers. The Daedalus class was shaped much like the Wasp and Tarawa class landing ships as built for the pre-unification US Navy. The vessels had a rectangular upper deck and hull on top of a standard ship hull. This enabled the Daedalus-class to have a more efficient pressure hull than the Prometheus class, which was based on the US supercarriers. As a result, the Daedalus-class had superior underwater performance in comparison with the Prometheus class

The able to withstand great pressures and being airtight would be essential for the fate that would befall both the Daedalus and the Prometheus on February 7th 2009 when the SDF-01 Macorss, South Ataria Island, Daedalus and Prometheus vessels were folded to near Pluto. Sealed within the Daedalus's super-structure the ships crew were dazed but unharmed by the miscalculated fold of the SDF-01 which took them with it.

The Daedalus could not be left orbiting Pluto, and like the Prometheus it was attached to the SDF-01 Macross. When the SDF-01 would change to Storm Attacker mode it would essentially become one of its arms, and the Daedalus in particular with assistance from the SDF-01's pin point barrier defense system was used in the Daedalus attack, which would involve a Zentraedi ship being breached by the Daedalus 'arm', and firing its weapons, including destroids,  from inside the enemy ship.

The Daedalus, along with the Prometheus, was removed from the SDF-01 at the peak of the First Defensive Battle of Macross City, when Quamzin took off the entire arm in his ramming attack. The ship was deemed unfit for repair and was scrapped outright. She was replaced by one of two ARMD Platforms. Having proven itself as a reliable and hardy design the Daedalus class of vessels were manufactured on both Earth and UN Colony Worlds in greater numbers. Despite the cessation of the destroid class of mecha, the Daedalus class vessels still carry many of them owned by the UNSM and UN Army. In some cases they will carry other military vehicles such as tanks, and armored personnel carriers, or more troops.

RPG STATS

Government: United Nations Government (Earth)
Ship Type: Super Large Scale Semi-Submersible Assault Landing Vessel
Class: Daedalus Class
Manufacturer: ORTEC Company/UN Spacy

Crew: 1,965 total
Command Tower: 30
Main Ship: 1,450
Destroid Pilots: 160 + 25 reserve
Troops: 300
Notable Ships of Class:
 
SLV-111 Daedalus, Launched April 2006, Operational loss at Macross Island, 2009 SLV-122 Olympus
SLV-112 Perseus SLV-123 Neptune (Eden)  
SLV-113 Ajax, Sunk in the Pacific, 2019 SLV-124 Apollo
SLV-114 Orion, Vaporized Murmansk in Zentraedi holocaust, 2011 SLV-125 Sibyl
SLV-115 Iphigenia, Sunk in the Atlantic in Zentraedi holocaust, 2011 SLV-126 Trident (Eden)
SLV-116 Ulysses, Sunk in the Caribbean Sea, 2017 SLV-127 Sophocles
SLV-117 Achilles SLV-128 Athens
SLV-118 Jason SLV-129 Caesar

SLV-119 Agamemnon, Operational loss 2015, scrapped 2016-2017

SLV-130 Archimides
SLV-120 Cronus SLV-131 Achilles
SLV-121 Nemesis SLV-132 Damocles

MDC BY LOCATION:

(1) Main Body                                   6,000
(2) Command Tower                                 500
(2) Sensor Array (behind Command Tower)           350
    Landing Ramp                                  850
    Main Deck Lifts (3)                           300 each

(4) Main Propellers (2)                           650 each
(4) Secondary Engines (4)                         200 each

    Surface-to-Surface Rocket Launcher Pods (2)   200 each
    Super Sea Sparrow/Harpoon Launchers (3)       175 each
    20mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS (3)                  150 each
    12.7mm Short Range Guns (3)                   100 each
    Torpedo Launcher Tubes (6)                    200 each

    Small Airlocks/Access Hatches (12)            150 each
    Large Airlocks (4)                            300 each
    Outer Hull (per 40ft area)                    120
    Interior walls (per 20ft)                      20

NOTES:

  1. Depleting the MDC of the main body will put the Vessel out of commission. All internal systems will shut down, including life support. The ship itself will be an unsalvageable sinking wreck.
  2. Destroying the command tower will instantly kill the command staff and deprive the ship of all forms of long range communications, radar and targeting. The range and targeting capabilities of the secondary systems are equal to that of a VF-1 Valkyrie. The ship can still operate, but is at -3 on initiative, -3 to strike, and number of attacks per melee of the weapon systems are reduced by half. Destroying the main sensory array behind the command tower will have the same effect, but the command staff will not be killed instantly.
  3. Depleting the MDC of the main propellers will force the ship to rely on its secondary propellers. Depleting the MDC of the main propellers AND secondary propellers will leave the ship adrift at sea.

SPEEDS:

Speed (Surface): 32+ Knots
Speed (Semi-Submerged): 18 Knots
Maximum Depth: 2.0 miles (3.2 km)
Maximum Range: Unlimited (estimated 30 year life span)

STATISTICAL DATA:

Length: 488 meters
Weight: 570,500 tons (Full Load)
Main Drive:
Nuclear; 4 pressurized water reactors; 8 turbines giving 520,000+ horsepower
Radar System: Standard


WEAPON SYSTEMS:

  1. SURFACE-TO-SURFACE ROCKET LAUNCHER PODS (2): The primary surface based weapon of the Daedalus class vessels. These two SSM pods are designed to provide saturation fire against beach/land emplacements to facilitate an easier beach landing by the UNSM Marines and other troops carried on board the Daedalus design. As was shown by beach landings during World War II, troops attempting to make a beach landing suffer atrocious causalities if not provided with adequate supporting fire. Its for this reason that these devastatingly powerful weapons were fitted to the Daedalus vessels.
  2. SUPER SEA SPARROW/HARPOON MISSILE LAUNCHERS (3): Vertical launching combined launchers on the Daedalus carry both the Sea Sparrow Anti-Ship Missile, and the Harpoon Anti-Submarine missile, both of which have comparable characteristics to each other however wholly different roles. Designed to be launched from the surface these missiles utilize their own internal guidance systems after launch to lock onto and home in on their target. Both fast and powerful it was felt that the Daedalus vessels would require something with a hard hitting punch in the event of Naval Warfare.
  3. PHALANX LASER CIWS (3): As part of the close in defense complement of the Daedalus class vessels they are armed with 3 automated lasers, part of the Close In Weapon System (CIWS). These high speed firing weapons are designed to take out close in threats to the carrier, primarily enemy aircraft that have slipped through the defense net.  
  4. 12.7MM SHORT RANGE MACHINE GUNS (4): The Daedalus class vessels also mount 12.7mm short range machineguns to defend against small surface craft while in dock. They also work in conjunction with the automated lasers to defend against aircraft. The 12.7mm guns are manually operated, and have no protection to the gunners.
  5. TORPEDO LAUNCHER TUBES (6): The primary anti-submersible weapon of the Daedalus Class Vessels. The torpedo launcher tubes fire heavy warhead torpedo's designed to destroy submarines, and/or sea based installations with a single torpedo.


SYSTEMS OF NOTE:

MECHA COMPLEMENT (STANDARD):

MBR-04-MK IV Tomahawk Destroid: 50
ADR-04-MK X Defender Destroid: 36
MBR-07-MK II Spartan Destroid: 28
SDR-04-MK XII Phalanx Destroid: 24
HWR-00-MK II Monster Destroid : 2
Sea Sergeants Helicopters: 10
Mini-Subs: 4
Trucks or other vehicles: 20

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