Republic Modular Transport

The Republic deployed a wide variety of starship variations throughout
its extensive history ranging greatly in both design and purpose. The
inter-stellar space carrier vehicle (ISSCV) or modular transport as the
crewers liked to refer to it, was one of the more versatile designs to
be introduced shortly before the rise of the Galactic Empire.

The ISSCV is a modular vessel consisting of a basic flight frame mounting
the main ion drives and the cockpit. This frame is capable of successfully
and adequately mounting either a standardized cargo or passenger pod,
depending upon the mission.

The cargo pod is a simple affair, nothing more than an armored box capable
of storing up to 35 metric tons of cargo. During the height of the Clone
Wars the ISSCV was commonly found making light supply runs, especially
combat starships performing missions too valuable to pull away for a pit
stop at a supply depot.

The passenger pod turns a harmless ISSCV into a light troop transport
complete with side-mounted blaster cannons for use both in space and in
an atmosphere. The side-mounted blasters are simple in design and anyone
with basic training in starship gunnery can easily handle one. The troops
carried on board are usually responsible for manning these weapons in the
case of an attack or for laying down covering fire during a landing.

The ISSCV maneuvers exceptionally well through the use of four ion drives,
two of which mounted at the rear of the vessel (the main drives) and the
other two mounted near the front on rotating mounts capable of rotating
the engines up to 270 degrees.

While the ISSCVs had their use, it was a rare site to find any of them
attached to any cruisers or carriers on the front lines. Typically they
worked independent of larger starships from a space station or planetary
base.

Craft: Aero-Tech Space Division's ISSCV
Class: Space Transport
Size: Small (30.1 m long)
Hyperdrive: x2 (backup x16)
Passangers: 0 (cargo pod), 24 (passenger pod)
Cargo Capacity: 250 kg (passenger pod), 35 tons (cargo pod)
Consumables: 1 week
Cost: Not available for sale
Maximum Speed In Space: Attack (8 squares/action)
Atmospheric Speed: 800 km/h (12 squares/action)
Crew: 2 (Normal +2)
Initiative: +3 (+1 size, +2 crew)
Maneuver: +3 (+1 size, +2 crew)
Defense: 21 (+1 size, +10 armor)
Shield Points: 0
Hull Points: 110 (DR 10)
Weapons:
  2 Blaster Cannons
    Fire Arc: 1 left, 1 right
    Attack Bonus: +3 (+1 size, +2 fire control)
    Damage: 2d10x2
    Range Modifiers: PB/S +0, M/L n/a