GTSR201B Varanus Panoptes Pocket Carrier

Grand Terran Sovereign Republic (GTSR)

Scale: Fleet (very nominally 1:10000th)

Size (Bounding Box): 80.30mm x 22.31mm x 12.90mm

Physical Print: Two starships supplied.

Digital Files:

Supports: Not available at this time, sorry.

Mounting: 3.4mm diameter flight stand hole located at base; flight stand provided.

Scaling Notes: Yellow. Parts potentially affected by scaling: Flight stand hole, wall thickness, thin parts.

Entirely Optional Lore PDF included.

Photo of FDM print. (Prusa I3 Mk3)

For Resin/SLS Printing: Use file 1solidS (plus stand)

For FDM Printing: Use files 1solidtop, 1solidbottom, 1solidfin (plus stand)

The Varanus Panoptes Pocket Carrier, named for the Argus monitor, was the first carrier vessel spotted in the GTSR fleet. The Panoptes is dominated by a larger through-deck hangar, with launch bays to the port and starboard, capable of housing and maintaining a full two squadrons of fighters. This required a significant amount of sacrifice in payload, however. The Panoptes removes 40% of the shield generators and a third of the armour. Armament is reduced to six LS-914B laser batteries, with a combined output of 900TXq. The two Derwent engines are replaced with another pair of Safran SF-M2340 engines, which reduces the performance to a sluggish 58 MEUs and only half the acceleration at 5.3mc. Being so slow and with barely 800 TXq shields and the same in armour integrity capacity, the Panoptes is a fairly soft target. However, it is expected not be operating only as platform for fighters. The one Panoptes spotted in 2350 carried one squadron each of Pterodactylus and Dimorphodon interceptors, but is expected Panoptes assigned to smaller task forces are likely to use either two squadron of Pterodactylus or hyperdrive-capable Dimorphodons to make FTL fighter strikes and support and likely to as more of a policing role.