RPD Amphibious Transport


Craft: Rendilli Practical Design MTT Mudrat Mark 4
Type: Amphibious transport
Scale: Speeder
Length: 17 meters
Skill: Repulsorlift Operations; Mudrat
Cost: 22,500 credits
Crew: 2
Passengers: 60 fully armed troops
Cover: Full
Cargo Capacity: 500 metric tons
Move: 77; 220 kph
Maneuverability: 1D+1
Body Strength: 4D
Altitude Range: 12 meters (see below)
Weapons:
1 Heavy blaster cannon
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: Pilot
Skill: Vehicle Blasters
Fire Control: 2D
Range: 10-50m/250m/500m
Damage: 5D
1 Heavy cutting laser
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: Co-Pilot
Skill: Vehicle Blasters
Fire Control: 1D
Range: 10m/40m/80m
Damage: 7D
2 Repeating blasters
Scale: Character
Fire Arc: 1 Right, 1 Left
Crew: 1 Each
Skill: Blasters; Repeating Blasters
Fire Control: 3D
Range: 10-20m/100m/200m
Damage: 6D
1 Light blaster cannon
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Rear
Crew: 1
Skill: Vehicle Blasters
Fire Control: 1D
Range: 10-50m/200m/600m
Damage: 4D

The first of RPD's major successes, the Mudrat is known for it's ability to slog through some of the worst terrain known, from typhoon ridden seas, to heavy brush, to windswept ice plains, to just about anything else. While the Mudrat will not move it's passengers with any degree of comfort, it will get them anywhere they want to go, and has proved indispensable in numerous campaigns. The listed passenger and cargo statistics are when both are carried. The passenger area can be converted for cargo quite easily, and the cargo area can hold passengers with equally little difficulty.

The Mudrat travels as a normal repulsorlift vehicle, but has far more powerful flight stabilizers than most other craft, and can only be affected by the most truly catastrophic atmospheric conditions. When these stabilizers are disengaged, the Mudrat has a flight ceiling of 100 meters, allowing it to ascend to higher altitudes to avoid short patches of greater than average difficulty. Mudrats are also equipped with small and weak tractor beams that it can use to enable it to ascend virtually sheer walls, up to 87ø inclination.

The cutting laser is lifted right off of Primeworld's Snake series (Python, Fer De Lance, Anaconda) of exploration vehicles, as several of the engineers involved in that project were later recruited by RPD. When combined with the heavy blaster cannon, the Mudrat's laser can cut a trail extremely quickly. The repeating blasters are anti-personnel weapons, and the rear cannon is there to hold off enemy craft long enough to allow escort speeders to engage them. The heavy blaster is the Mudrat's main weapon, and is there to enable the Mudrat to hold it's own when attempting to establish a beach-head on hostile territory.
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