>>5312909>>5312912I love the idea too.
Such large orbit to surface and surface to orbit vessels are possible, we saw one in the Magnus novel.
>>5312912Perhaps it could have a directional that while in space protects the whole of the craft, but upon landing protects its surface from both ground artillery and orbital bombardment.
In canon 40k, typically cruisers and battleship classes are not designed with landing in mind. Well, not intentionally landing.
There are a few exceptions such as in Anarch where the Sek, a "Fast Cruiser", was able to land. Being able to land and deploy those huge space worthy canons and rockets as enormous artillery with potentially intercontinental range is badass as fuck. I liken it unto the Star Wars doctrine where their star destroyers are built with planetary landing in mind.
The Necrons and their Necrodermis Ships are masters of this, even their capital ship Cairns are built with landing in mind able to hide beneath the sands for sixty million years and still fly. And the Tau too even their giant ships are built with planetary landing in mind given how often they must defend their small territory. So there is precedence for even large capital ships to be capable of landing operation, it's just not normally an Imperial thing.
But we can make it a Federation thing.
