Assault Shuttle

The Imperial assault shuttle is a heavily armored, thirty-meter-long spacecraft equipped with tractor beam generators and projectors, full sensor suites, power harpoon guns, concussion missile launchers, and automatic blaster cannons. Its five person crew is trained to engage enemy ships and serve as field support for the zero-g stormtroopers they ferry about. Assault shuttles are designed to serve as launch platforms for zero-g troopers, and they can easily carry forty of the armored space warriors within their main holds. Assault shuttles are among the best shielded vehicles in the Imperial fleet. They can operate in space and in planetary atmospheres, and their limited nav computers can handle up to three hyperspace jumps before needing base-assisted reprogramming.