Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry (LAAT/i)

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The Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry (LAAT/i), often referred to as the Republic attack gunship or Republic Gunship, was a specialized gunship designed for aerial-based support and infantry transportation. It was produced by Rothana Heavy Engineering and used by the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. The Galactic Empire also used it for a brief period after the conclusion of the war.

The LAAT/i was affectionately known as the "larty" by clone troopers.

The LAAT/i was a repulsorlift infantry transport capable of carrying up to thirty troopers. Secondary functions included reconnaissance, direct fire support, search-and-recovery, and low-altitude air-to-ground and air-to-air strikes against vehicles ranging from airspeeders to starfighters.

In addition to its trooper complement, housed on a deckplate protected by drooping wings and a sliding side door, the LAAT/i could carry four military speeder bikes in an aft-deployable rack. The crew complement comprised a clone trooper pilot and co-pilot/forward gunner in the hunchbacked cockpit, and two auxiliary gunners stationed in pinpoint composite-beam turrets extending on articulated arms from the troop cabin. An IM-6 battlefield medical droid was commonly carried aboard in an emergency locker. In the event of emergencies, the cockpit capsule could separate from the main craft to act as an escape pod.

The LAAT/i was a fully armed gun platform, with a complete arsenal of weaponry that consisted of three anti-personnel laser turrets, two forward-facing, one covering the stern hatch; two top-mounted mass-driver missile launchers fed by rear-mounted ordnance belts and commonly loaded with short-range homing missiles, HE (high explosive), HEAP (high explosive armor-piercing), and APF (anti-personnel fragmentation) rounds; four composite-beam, pin-point laser turrets, (on some models, the slot for these Balls were inter-changeable with floodlights) two of which were automated bubble-turrets located on either wing; and eight light air-to-air rockets stowed on the underside of each wing.

Infantry gunships were equipped with atmospheric containment shielding and could be deployed from space, yet could not reach orbit altitude without a carrier vessel. The LAAT/i's optimal fighting range was in the lower atmosphere, where they could reach speeds in excess of six hundred kilometers per hour. A single Acclamator-class assault ship could carry up to eighty LAAT-series gunships, while a Venator-class Star Destroyer had space for half that complement. The LAAT/i was highly effective but lacked large amounts of armor making it a vulnerable target.

**Purchase TN:** 164 (To Build) 109 (New) 73 (Used)

**Restriction:** Mil (+3)

**Shield** – **SP** 220 – **DR** 44 – **Shield** **Damage Threshold** 88

• • Starfighters require the Pilot Starship Skill to be operated.

• • Many starfighters have vehicle mounted weapons, these vehicle weapons require the Vehicle Weapon Proficiency feat.

• • A starfighter in combat is always moving either under its own power, or by its current momentum, unless it has been brought to a full stop (a starfighter coming to a full stop is a move action, a starfighter at a full stop is considered flatfooted until it moves again. This rule does not apply to vehicles able to hover in place). On a turn that a starfighter does not come to a full stop, and does not make a move action that round, the starfighter still moves forward in a straight line an amount of squares equal to one half its normal movement. (Vehicle Trait)

• • Shuttles get a +5 bonus to all Saves and Piloting Skill Checks made to re-enter or exit a planets atmosphere.

***Accommodations***

• • 2 Seats • • Troop Compartment 30 (standing room medium size creatures)

***Structure Traits***

• • Wings (PL 4)

***Power System***

• • Cryogenic Power Cell (PL 6)

***Vehicle Systems***

• • 10x Fuel Tanks (PL 5) • • Maneuvering Thrusters (PL 5) • • 2x Rocket-Jet Space Engines (900 meters) (PL 5) • • 2x Hydrogen Injectors (PL 5) • • Repulsorlift (PL6) • • Fuel Economizer (PL 6) • • RAM Scoop System (PL 6) • • Internal Comm System (PL 5) • • Life Support System (PL 5) • • Utility Flare System (PL 5) • • Class III Sensor Array (PL 6) • • Gravity Field Generator (PL 6) • • Proximity Sensors (PL 6) • • Collision Detection Sensors (PL 6) • • Subspace Radio (PL 7) • • Autopilot System (PL 5) • • Radiation Shielding (PL 6) • • Missile Lock Alert (PL 6) • • Shields – SP 220 – DR 44 (PL 7) • • Targeting System (PL 6) • • 4x Laser Cannon, Medium (PL 6) • •Missile/Torpedo Launcher, Large (PL 5)