Pegasus-Class Assault Landing Craft

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Pegasus-Class Assault Landing Craft
Fast Facts
Ship Type	Assault Landing Craft
Class:	Pegasus (White Base shown)
Launched:	Universal Century 0079
Class Fate:	Discontinued in favor of Ra Cailum class battleship
General Characteristics
The general characteristics of this class vary on a ship to ship basis; as such it is not possible to give statistics for the class as a whole. Specific characteristics for the Pegasus-class ships can be found on each ships' respective page.

In the fictional universe of Mobile Suit Gundam, the Pegasus-Class Assault Landing Craft was the first ship of the Earth Federation to be designed around mobile suit carrying. These Assault Carriers are functionally equivalent to the modern day aircraft carrier, as their primary function is to launch and recover mobile suits. Because of this, Pegasus-class ships enjoy more freedom on the battlefield, since they do not have stick in packs for protection against enemy mobile suits. Since Pegasus-class ships carry their own MS with them at all times they are somewhat less dependent on their main guns and anti-aircraft guns for protection. All Pegasus-class ships are also equipped with a Minovsky Craft System which enable ships in this class to enter and exit the earth's atmosphere; additionally, the craft system allows for these Assault Carriers to float by creating a barrier between the carrier and the earth.

Unlike the other of the Federation's ship classes of the time, the Pegasus-Class is not so much a single class as a concept; as rapidly advancing technology swiftly changed both the internal arrangement and external appearance of the Pegasus-Class ships. Only the first three units (Pegasus SCV-69, White Base SCV-70, and White Base Jr. SCV-71) were completed to the original plans. After the White Base Jr., technology was advancing so quickly that each subsequent Pegasus-Class cruiser looked significantly different, though each had the same general arrangement of a central hull with two large aft thruster blocks, two wings, and two forward mobile suit launching "legs." The overall design looked like a sphinx or a winged horse, giving the class its name.

After the One Year War, every ship was redesignated MSC (Mobile Suit Carrier) whether it had survived the war or not.

Ships of the Pegasus class

Albion, a Flight III Assault Carrier, resupplies at Torrington Base in Australia

To a practiced eye, no two ships of the Pegasus class are alike. The advancing technology of the war resulted in drastic changes that severely affected the external appearance of the ships. However, four distinct flights appeared:

• Flight I: The base Pegasus design, repeated on White Base and White Base Jr.,
• Flight II: A modified Flight I design, seen on Thoroughbred and Blanc Rival, mostly similar but flatter in shape,
• Flight III: New external design, included two additional catapults, a new laser propulsion system and generally improved armament, not completed until postwar
• Flight IV: Actually completed before Flight III, an improved Flight II design.

List of ships of the Pegasus-class

• SCV-69 Pegasus
• SCV-70 (LMSD-71) White Base
• SCV-71 White Base Jr.
• SCV-73 Blanc Rival
• SCVA-72 Thoroughbred
• SCVA-73 Troy Horse
• LMSD-76 Gray Phantom (ex-Troy Horse)
• SCVA-74 (MSC-06) Stallion
• MSC-07 (LMSD-78) Albion

Derivatives

Because of their practicality, several future class incorporated similar design features and/or similar concepts in their construction:

• Argama-class cruiser (Grypps Conflict)
• Nahel Argama-class battleship (First Neo-Zeon War)
• Archangel-class assault ship (Cosmic Era continuity)

See also

• Mobile Suit
• List of Mobile Suits
• RX-78 mobile suit series
• Minovsky Physics

External links

• [MAHQ]
• [The World-Wide Gundam Informational Network]
• [Gundam Naval Museum]
• [Library of Londonion (ship names & fates)]

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