McCain's Spacecraft Encyclopedia:
Scorpion-Class Trans-Orbital Gunship/Mecha Dropship
Design: Invid
Builder: Invid
Operator: Invid; entry date is unknown, .Ships Complement:
Crew: 4 Malar in Power Armor as pilots.
Troops: 120 Malar in power armor.Dimensions:
Landing Ship Variant:
Length: 87.6 meters with tail cannons down.
58.4 meters with tail cannons in fire position.
Width: 27.2 meter
Height: 29.6 meters tall with tail cannons down.44.4 meters with tail cannons in fire position.
Mass:
Fuel Mass:Gunship Variant:
Length: 109.5 meters with tail cannons down.
73 meters with tail cannons in fire position.
Width: 34 meter
Height: 37 meters tall with tail cannons down.55.5 meters with tail cannons in fire position.
Mass:
Fuel Mass:Propulsion Systems:
Power Plant: Unknown, Protoculture powered reflex furnace.
Anti-Gravity System: Unknown, numerious anti-gravity pod.
Fold System: None.
Endurance and Mobility Limits:
Indefinate, Invid can subsist of stored nutrients in body tissue but must bath in nutrient fluids at unknown intervals to refurbished spent nutrients.
Weapons Systems:
Both:
IPC-2 Invid Particle Cannons (2): Smaller versions than those carried on the Trilobite Frigate.
numerous other weapons systems.
Landing Ship:
Six energy cannons on the shoulders.
2 cannons the secondary mecha release hatches.
2 cannons on the main mecha release hatch.
Mecha Complement:
120 Malar in Power Armor, with speeders.
120 Armored Scouts.
120 Shock Troopers.
60 Odeons.
60 Scrimm
24 Crann.
24 Cougars
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Updated: 12:17:2000Information and Picture courtesy of the Unofficial Robotech Reference Guide