Landing Time

[Darth Banshee]

After witnessing the problems of invasion of naboo, at first hand where she her self was captured. She time to contemplate, what tools would be necessary, so the main problem of the ground campaign would not happen again. As she saw it the main problem was, getting enough troops and armour on the ground in organized manor. She then remembered reading about a ship from past that use to deal with this problem. It was called Acclamator I-class assault ship, she could try and replicate it for future invasions.

Though she would have get released, from omega protectorate custody first to start building plans.

 

[Darth Banshee]

After getting free from the omega protectorate, she started her planning for this ship in detail. First she needed to know was, what was in a sith legion these days. As this would make up an important part of her ship design, as all the equipment would need to be loaded on to the ship.

She need to know other things as well, like how best to place the gun batteries. What to do with the excess energy, from the reactor when it has landed. To answer all these questions she called a sith general, to discuss what was needed by this landing craft.

His name was General Ritak, he was in charge of one the many imperial legions. He commanded a full legion of sith troops, his input would be invaluable to her. He looked over the old specs of the acclamator troop carrier, and remarked This ship carried nearly two full legions on it, we should investigate how they did this. How they stored and their equipment, and gave the troops room they need.

Darth Banshee replied ​Fair enough, I shall see if their one in the republic war museum we could have. She sent an aid to find one, for general to look at.

 

[Darth Banshee]

The ship was sourced, and the general went over how it worked with a fine tooth comb. He made notes with his command staff, and worked how they got troops on board. After which he and his staff and engineers met darth banshee, for drinks and discussions on the proposed ship.

Darth Banshee asked the group whilst drinking wine, So did you find out how they did it?

The General replied while drinking corellian whisky, Yes they where cramped, and their weapons required less energy than the ones today.

One engineers then added Yes that and they where clones, so they needed less room. I would recommend a similar sized vessel. Though planned just for one legion, as well as their machines of war. We could do this, and make it little smaller than the original. Say about seven hundred meters, I reckon we could do this.

The conversation went two and through over the night, but the idea was simple enough. Know all her engineers had to do was plan the ship.

 

[Darth Banshee]

Few a day`s after the meeting the first designs came in, they where quite good. They had storage areas for a fifty swoop bikes. Plus extra room for other equipment, this would allow them to utilize the space for a hundred twenty walkers, or even two hundred forty tanks, may be four hundred and eighty artillery pieces. This would give the legion options, they could have two to one ratio of walkers or tanks.

Then there was the hangar bay, this ship was not designed for the main fleet battle. So it did not want massive amount fighters or bombers. Though it did need more gunships and more dropships, this would help support the legion as pushed forward. Then there was another problem, getting the troops out without being killed by the enemy. The second they opened the bay doors, for this they would shield generator of some sort.

She sent her engineers of to, figure out this problem.

 

[Darth Banshee]

They came back a bit later, they had an idea. They plant a shield generator inside the ship, this would expanded two kilometers from the center of ship. This would give troops leaving the ship ample protection, from incoming fire. Though it would mean the ship could not fire on anything either. Though with limited capital guns, this did not seem that big of an issue. As they only planned on having three, long range heavy Ion cannons. The rest of ships guns would be small point defence lasers or flak cannons, these would spread across the top of the ship. This would leave the under belly ship vulnerable, but since this is where it was going to land. It seemed little point having guns their.

That was next problem, landing this thing in possible crash conditions.