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^ I like, but I have a few ideas. As it's a light cruiser, I'd keep the length the same as other cruisers, 1km minimum, and reduce the armour. Traditionally battlecruisers would mount heavy guns on a light hull. And I would increase the crew slightly, 320 seems low for such a large ship.
This isn't really a starship, but it is a Halo vehicle. Another craft I made up for a story I'm working on.
D77-SIC (Stealth Infiltration Craft)
Length:30.5 meters
Wingspan:23.3 meters
Height:10 meters
Weight:146,000 lbs
Propulsion:
Two primary thrust engines located amidships
Ten maneuvering thrusters in four vector pylons
Thrusters incorporate advanced baffle system which drastically reduces audible noise and radiated heat.
Armament:
1x M72 SPL (Stealth Projectile Launcher)
Defenses:
Comprehensive active/passive EM jammer suite
Exterior hull coated in Radar Absorbent Material (RAM)
Lead/Faraday mesh embedded in hull material substrate
Description:
A very rare (and very expensive) variant of the ubiquitous D77 Pelican drop ship. 4,500 hours of labour by specialist fabricators and nearly 3,000,000 credits over the base cost of a standard Pelican yields a draft suitable to covert pickups and drop-offs. The SIC fills a gap in the UNSC fleet. Pelicans are not optimized to infiltrate heavily defended areas, and ODST drop pods provide no method for extraction.
Aside from it's matte black paint job and striking gold canopy, the SIC is to the casual observer almost indistinguishable from a standard D77. The colour is from the coating of radar and lydar absorbing paint that coats 89% of the craft's exterior, excluding only the cockpit windows and engine exhaust ducts. The gold colouring of the canopy is from actual gold mesh embedded in the material, which prevents EM emissions from escaping the cabin.
Mounted under the nose of the SIC is a rather ugly collection of aerials, lenses and sensor ports, which together forms the Advanced Telemetry And Surveillance Package (ATASP). Incorporating thermal, optical and EM sensors, the ATASP provides the SIC an unrivalled view of the battlefield. It even has a built in gas chromatography and mass spectrometer, allowing the SIC to literally smell it's targets.
The majority of the extra labour and cost associate with the SIC come from the installation of the advanced baffle system to the SIC's myriad of thrusters and engines. They require precision manufacturing and installation, and are built from expensive nanocomposites.
The SIC typically operates with a flight-crew of four; a pilot, co-pilot, weapons officer and electronic warfare officer. Unlike standard Pelicans, the SIC can't carry a vehicle or external supply canisters. They would provide a return of radar, negating the SIC's stealth modifications.
The SIC has a light weapons load-out; typically if the situation has deteriorated to the point where the SIC is called to intervene the mission is blown. However if the need arises to quietly dispose of a guard or sentry, the SIC can employ its M72 Stealth Projectile Launcher (SPL).
The M72 is essentially a much-modified M68, the archetypal Gauss cannon carried by anti-armour Warthogs. But where the M68 accelerated a 15cm tungsten slug to hypersonic speeds, the M72 launches a meter-long steel dart at just under the speed of sound. Firing from a revolver-like magazine that holds 6 rounds and function essentially like a very large, very expensive crossbow.
Propelled by magnetism and travelling at less than the speed of sound, the dart can nevertheless hit targets up to 500 meters away and can penetrate thinly armoured targets, like vehicles, windows or walls.
EDIT:
After reading some of the comments about my Forerunner ship, I decided to replicate it with google Sketchup. I haven't gotten very far, but I find it interesting nonetheless. The little speck in the upper left is a model I found of the POA, which is 1170 meters.
Weaponship Scale
[Edited on 04.15.2011 7:59 PM PDT]