Scirocco-class

The Scirocco-class is a high-speed frontline warship that doubles as a troop carrier and is the pinnacle of combat balance. Driven by four powerful RTF-B series Epstein Drives, the assault cruiser is fast and maneuverable and armed to the teeth while still having space for troops, breaching pods, and Dropships.
Although primarily an assault ship, the Scirocco-class is suitably equipped as a frontline warship. It is uniquely equipped with a dorsal-starboard mounted light Railgun turret, five larger torpedo tubes, five smaller torpedo tubes (allowing for great versatility of torpedo warhead yields), 12 Point Defense Cannons, and grappling cannons which snare nearby ships for breaching pods.
The cruiser is narrow, rounded, and somewhat angular, measuring 72 meters wide, with ventral hangar bays that can fit three Troika-class dropships. Sciroccos are also equipped for boarding assaults with 12 single-occupant Mosquito-type Breaching pods (six on each of their port and starboard sides) and multiple grappling cannons to latch onto a target.This makes the assault cruiser excel as a boarding craft as well as a troop carrier, and it regularly carries 120 Martian Marines as well as Force Recon Marines with a full suite of Goliath Power Armor in the onboard MMC facilities, not even even accounting for the standard crew.
The electronics are no less impressive than her gunnery, featuring only the best targeting suites, ensuring maximum PDC efficiency, railgun accuracy, and torpedo impact probability. Sciroccos are also equipped with electronic countermeasures, further bolstering her anti-torpedo defenses. As an MCRN ship, the advanced weaponry is only the beginning. The Scirocco-class has a significantly advanced communication system with tactical uplink arrays and long-range targeting lasers. That’s on top of the superior armories, repair shops, and medical facilities that are extensive through MCRN ships. These make the assault cruiser an ideal communications support ship as well as a mobile command center that could potentially rival even the Donnager-class in the right situation, at less than half the size.

Power Generation

Fusion Drive

Propulsion

4✕ RTF-B Series Epstein Drives

Weapons & Armament

• 1✕ Turreted Dorsal-starboard V-14 Stiletto light railgun
• 10✕ Torpedo tubes - 5✕ fore-mounted configurable medium-grade ship to surface torpedo/missile tubes. 5✕ aft-mounted configurable light-grade ship to ship torpedo/missile tubes
• 12✕ Nariman Dynamics Rapid targeting Point Defense Cannons
• Probes
• 1✕ fore-mounted grapplers

Armor and defense

Double-layered redundant hull, dual-plated outer hull

Communication Tools & Systems

• Wide and Narrow band communication antenna
• Advanced communications systems and tactical uplink arrays

Sensors

RADAR, LADAR, Radio receptor, optical telescopes, Long-range targeting lasers

Additional & auxiliary systems

Advanced Communications Systems, Advanced Targeting Systems, Hangar Bay, Hull Plating II, Maneuverable, Medical Expert System, Redundant Hull (Double), Self-Destruct System, Sensor Scrambling

Hangars & docked vessels

• 3✕ Troika-class attack Dropships
• 12✕ Mosquito type Breaching pods

Designation

Assault Cruiser

Manufacturer

Martian Congressional Republic Navy

Owning Organization

The Martian Congressional Republic

Width

72m

Length

200m

Height

70m

Complement / Crew

54 (430)