Pegasus Class "Grey Phantom" Universal Mobile Suit Carrier General Data and Attributes

Manufacturer: Earth Federation Weight: 51000 Metric Tons Armor Materials: Titanium Alloy Crew Compliment: 56 Crewmen Dimensions   • Length 266 meters   • Width 180 meters   • Height 90 meters Attributes   • Class: Universal   • Speed: Very Poor - Space / Good + Earth   • Maneuverability: Very Poor - Space / Very Poor Earth   • Armor: Average +

Design Features   • M Particle Emitters   • 1x Dedicated Hangar   • 2x MS Catapults   • Minovsky Craft   • Airborne Movement   • In atmosphere all Grey Phantom armaments are reduced by 1 range category (Very Long becomes Long etc.) Hangar Capacity   • 2x Cargo   • 3x Infantry   • 2x Spacecraft   • 9x Mobile Suits   • 4x Ball

Armaments

Anti Vehicle/MS   • 12x 105mm Machinegun Turret   • 6x Anti MS Missile Launcher

Anti Ship   • 1x Starboard 2-barrel Mega Particle Cannon Turret   • 1x Port 2-barrel Mega Particle Cannon Turret

Technical and Historical Data During the disastrous Lourm Campaign, Federation fleet commanders begrudging learned (sometimes moments before their flagships exploded from under them) that, despite the EF Space Force's overwhelming battleship superiority compared to the Zeon Duchy's would not be enough to win the war. Federation engineers threw existing designs out the window and set out to create an entirely new class of ship designed to carry mobile suits. The Pegasus-class was the final culmination of those efforts. Federal engineers created two catamaran-style hulls and attached them together with a central fuselage containing the reactor, command deck, and Minovski-craft system (more on this later). Each of the outboard hulls contained its own mobile suit hangar, each with its own launch catapult and space for four mobile suits. A central corridor connects the two, and also stores a mobile suit of its own, for a total of nine. Due to its ablative hull plating (painted in red), it can re-enter Earth's atmosphere by itself, and also acheive escape velocity on its own power (again with the Minovski-craft system). The Pegasus is armed with two large mega particle cannons, mounted behind the large yellow firing domes on either side of the ship's hull. The domes slide open and the cannons extend from within when preparing to fire. Two large missile launchers are also mounted on each side with a third rear-facing pair mounted further back on the hull for the purpose of discouraging close pursuit. Twelve antiaircraft turrets are mounted in concealed firing ports that also slide open when preparing to fire. The Pegasus' most radically inventive feature is its Minovski-craft system. Essentially the Federation's version of Zeon's Minovski-craft compressor in play on some of their mobile armors, it allows the Pegasus to fly in atmosphere for virtually unlimited amounts of time. Many Pegasus class ships would be built to slightly different modifications, but the only one to be produced in any sort of limited production capacity would be this model, nicknamed the "Grey Phantom". Image Gallery Bridge