Quebec Class Transport
Six Quebec Class Transports with air-breathing engine pods
The Quebec Class Transport built by ConAm Interstellar is designed primarily to serve as a space-to-surface Marine landing craft, although its flexible design prompted the creation of a number of variants.
Propulsion
The Quebec Class Transport does not use any single engine type, but instead is able to use a variety of engine pods that are designed to be easily removed and interchanged so that different engine types may be fitted for different environments. For operations exclusively in space, or involving planetary bodies without suitable atmospheres, enhanced MPD arcjets engine pods are fitted. In operations involving planetary atmospheres however, a variety of atmospheric breathing engines might be fitted so that the transport is able to operate with maximum fuel efficiency and deliver maximum potential combat endurance. With the greater flying time afforded by specialized engines for different atmospheres, Quebec Class Transports are better able to linger and provide close air support, or engage in search and rescue or other duties.
When air or other atmosphere breathing engines are fitted, Quebec Class Transports are equipped with single use rocket boosters to allow them to escape planetary atmospheres and enter orbit.
Vertical Takeoff and Landing
In order to allow for vertical takeoff and landing, all engine modules designed for the Quebec Class Transport feature rotating exhaust nozzles that may rotate to face 90 degrees downwards. Additionally, all engine modules have their exhaust modules close to the transport's center of balance. Secondary maneuvering thrusters built into the wingtips of the Quebec Class Transport allow for adjustment maneuvering during vertical takeoff and landing, as well as the maintenance of desired attitude, in addition to spaceborne stationkeeping.
Armaments and Defensive Systems
The armaments mounted aboard a Quebec Class Transport may vary from variant to variant, but typically require the addition of a dedicated Weapons and Defensive Systems Officer. The assignment of responsibility over the weapons systems to this officer is to ensure the safest, most accurate, most timely usage of the onboard armaments as possible, while the additional assignment of managing defensive systems helps alleviate the workload dealt with by the flight crew.
Quebec Class Transports feature a fairly simple, but compact, integrated electronic warfare package that is almost entirely automated in its operation. While generally ineffective against most powerful or advanced sensors or targeting systems, it may be of use in confusing more basic sensors such as the final stage sensors in incoming guided munitions.
Augmenting the integrated electronic warfare package are 8 deployable electronic decoys designed to blind or confuse hostile sensors and targeting systems through rapidly pulsed high energy emissions that may be able to generate false sensor returns or targetting errors. Similar in capability to the integrated electronic warfare package, these deployable electronic decoys are generally ineffective against most powerful or advanced sensors or targeting systems, but may be of use in confusing more basic sensors such as the final stage sensors in incoming guided munitions. In spite of their limitations, these decoys continue to be used due to their low cost, small mass and size, as well as low profile when mounted flush in their designated deployment crevices built into a Quebec Class Transport's exterior structure.
The potentially most effective layer of defenses aboard a Quebec Class Transport is its energy shield generator. While the shielding of a Quebec Class Transport is incapable of protecting the craft against accurately used heavy weaponry, it does provide a significant degree of protection against high velocity shrapnel and debris, small arms fire, and potentially crew-served weapons fire.
Built with a light weight inertron composite, the physical hull and structures of a Quebec Class Transport were designed to balance the needs for high strength as well as low weight in order to allow for maximum possible accelerations in space and the most efficient usage of available fuel. While not as well protected as a vessel with a heavier inertron construction, the Quebec Class Transport is resistant to small arms fire, and offers additional protection around the cockpit where high density inertron composite lining is installed.
Propulsion
The Quebec Class Transport does not use any single engine type, but instead is able to use a variety of engine pods that are designed to be easily removed and interchanged so that different engine types may be fitted for different environments. For operations exclusively in space, or involving planetary bodies without suitable atmospheres, enhanced MPD arcjets engine pods are fitted. In operations involving planetary atmospheres however, a variety of atmospheric breathing engines might be fitted so that the transport is able to operate with maximum fuel efficiency and deliver maximum potential combat endurance. With the greater flying time afforded by specialized engines for different atmospheres, Quebec Class Transports are better able to linger and provide close air support, or engage in search and rescue or other duties.
When air or other atmosphere breathing engines are fitted, Quebec Class Transports are equipped with single use rocket boosters to allow them to escape planetary atmospheres and enter orbit.
Vertical Takeoff and Landing
In order to allow for vertical takeoff and landing, all engine modules designed for the Quebec Class Transport feature rotating exhaust nozzles that may rotate to face 90 degrees downwards. Additionally, all engine modules have their exhaust modules close to the transport's center of balance. Secondary maneuvering thrusters built into the wingtips of the Quebec Class Transport allow for adjustment maneuvering during vertical takeoff and landing, as well as the maintenance of desired attitude, in addition to spaceborne stationkeeping.
Armaments and Defensive Systems
The armaments mounted aboard a Quebec Class Transport may vary from variant to variant, but typically require the addition of a dedicated Weapons and Defensive Systems Officer. The assignment of responsibility over the weapons systems to this officer is to ensure the safest, most accurate, most timely usage of the onboard armaments as possible, while the additional assignment of managing defensive systems helps alleviate the workload dealt with by the flight crew.
Quebec Class Transports feature a fairly simple, but compact, integrated electronic warfare package that is almost entirely automated in its operation. While generally ineffective against most powerful or advanced sensors or targeting systems, it may be of use in confusing more basic sensors such as the final stage sensors in incoming guided munitions.
Augmenting the integrated electronic warfare package are 8 deployable electronic decoys designed to blind or confuse hostile sensors and targeting systems through rapidly pulsed high energy emissions that may be able to generate false sensor returns or targetting errors. Similar in capability to the integrated electronic warfare package, these deployable electronic decoys are generally ineffective against most powerful or advanced sensors or targeting systems, but may be of use in confusing more basic sensors such as the final stage sensors in incoming guided munitions. In spite of their limitations, these decoys continue to be used due to their low cost, small mass and size, as well as low profile when mounted flush in their designated deployment crevices built into a Quebec Class Transport's exterior structure.
The potentially most effective layer of defenses aboard a Quebec Class Transport is its energy shield generator. While the shielding of a Quebec Class Transport is incapable of protecting the craft against accurately used heavy weaponry, it does provide a significant degree of protection against high velocity shrapnel and debris, small arms fire, and potentially crew-served weapons fire.
Built with a light weight inertron composite, the physical hull and structures of a Quebec Class Transport were designed to balance the needs for high strength as well as low weight in order to allow for maximum possible accelerations in space and the most efficient usage of available fuel. While not as well protected as a vessel with a heavier inertron construction, the Quebec Class Transport is resistant to small arms fire, and offers additional protection around the cockpit where high density inertron composite lining is installed.
Fielded Quebec Class Transport Variants
Variant Type |
Crew |
Transport Capacity |
Armament |
Physical Dimensions |
General Purpose Mark II |
2 Flight Crew, 1 Weapons and Defensive Systems Officer, 1 Loadmaster |
24 armed and equipped infantry personnel, or 48 ED-1000 droids in storage rack compact configuration, or 2 ED-2100 Series droids in compact storage configuration, or 1 wheeled or tracked land vehicle with embarked crew and passengers |
Retractable belly-mounted twin barreled 25x59 mm grenade launcher turret, retractable nose mounted 3 barreled 8.25 mm SuperJet powered Gatling gun |
Length: 36 meters, Wingspan: 26 meters, Height: 9.9 meters |
Multirole Gunship Transport Mark I |
2 Flight Crew, 2 Weapons and Defensive Systems Crew |
12 armed and equipped infantry personnel, or 24 ED-1000 droids in storage rack compact configuration |
Retractable belly-mounted turret with Bofors L/70 40 mm Gun and 6 barreled 8.25 mm SuperJet powered Gatling gun, retractable nose mounted 3 barreled 8.25 mm SuperJet powered Gatling gun |
Length: 36 meters, Wingspan: 26 meters, Height: 9.9 meters |
Medical Evacuation Mark II |
2 Flight Crew, 6 Medical Crew |
16 casualties in medical beds |
None |
Length: 36 meters, Wingspan: 26 meters, Height: 9.9 meters |
Production Information
Designer: ConAm Interstellar, Consolidated Amalgamated Holding Corporation
Designer: ConAm Interstellar, Consolidated Amalgamated Holding Corporation