[LF] ST-AG (Stag)

What happens when the Star Wars Mandalorian Razor Crest meets a LAAT Gunship? The Strategic Transport - Assault Gunship "Stag" is born. Stag spawns in as a level 20 core 6 light transport, and with enough moddable upgrade potential to make what Han Solo did to the M. Falcon look like a pinstriping job. Stag is also part of a modular system, where the underwings are designed to accommodate attachable cargo/harvester HV's and SV interceptors!

Hello kindred Empyrion spirits!

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Special thanks to [h1]Crazy Z[/h1] for doing most of the heavy lifting for the Workshop post image, and helping with the ground targeting LCD!

The Rothana Heavy Engineering ST-AG

Stag is potent as a single build, but its design is made to be the centerpiece of a modular system, where attachable HV's with cargo and respawn chamber can extend your mission profile, and with attachable interceptors can wear down POI's and CV's with wolf pack tactics. Links to associated builds:

Actis II interceptor: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947975737

Bantha pod HV: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958641597

Features and Devices

Stag spawns in with several armor lockers placed at the front and rear of ship, 2 fridges, detector, wifi, and oxygen dispensers.

The Main Ship Menu features a toggle signal to highlight where the generator upgrades are placed.

The core is placed torward the center of the ship, but there is an alternative placement at the front for those that prefer this method, which can be found forward and below the cockpit control station.

Additionally, there is a secure cockpit located midsection of the ship.

The central operations area has a ceiling tall enough to allow players to spawn a drone inside the ship

Armament

Stag Spawns in as a lightly armed transport with a minigun and two lasers. With some CPU in reserve, the armament can be immediately beefed up without having to place the 2 additional improved + 1 advanced CPU for RE players, though RE players will want to decide between that and slotting in more forward thrust, or settle on a mix.

At peak RE CPU and gens placed, Stag can see placement of 16+ guns and 29+ turrets in the assault gunship role, which can operate on high G planets (tested 4.2).

Armor

The build frame has a single exterior layer of steel in most places, but is reinforced a critical areas with hardened steel, such as around the CPU, and places where chain reactions can be mitigated.

The nose of the ship features the bulk of armoring 2-3 layers or more of hardened steel wrapping around decoys to provide a frontal cushion in the case of sudden drop of the shield.

Storage

30k Ammunition 14k Harvest 5k Supplemental cargo divided among 4 systems Additional boxes

The modular system of Stag's attachable cargo HVs in conjunction with a prolific placement of lift thrust can see Stag top 100k or more of cargo potential.

Lore and History

The Initial production run of ST-AG was unremarkable, serving as a lightly armed small bulk transport, and some configurations as a security forces patrol gunship.

Only after the outbreak of the Galactic Civil War would Stag begin to gain notoriety. The Rebel Alliance, always seeking to aquire possession of any and all hardware, did come into possession of several Stags after a raid on a Rothana Heavy Engineering hub.

The Rebel Alliance immediately went into overdrive retrofitting, upgunning, and overhauling the small squad, some of them settling into a strategic transport role, jumping in and out of contested space to resupply Rebel cells within Empire space, and others as a hit and run gunships.

It is only with the defection of the former Rothana Heavy Engineering designs officer, Commander Shepster, would the Stag really be exploited to its fullest potential. Shepster, having some familiarity with the ST-AG program, and was a coordinator of development teams for the LAAT gunship program, knew full well what could be achieved. His experience utilized Stag to a full transport potential, making use of the wings as heavy deployable mounts as was learned with his time on the LAAT program, and optimizing the on board processing system to allow a significant increase of firepower displacement. The result being a deadly platform of trans-solar capability.

Acquire your Stag today!

Colors:

Instructions on how to change colors can be found in the tutorial video

Alliance Blue

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Rebel Red