Combine Support Ship (CSS-A-340 Series)

Combine intervention teams are often dispatched in Main Gauche class Combine Support Ships. CSSs carry teams of six to twenty-four mercenaries and their equipment on short-term missions for ship and orbital boarding actions as well as planetary drops and insertions. Fondly known as a “flying brick” by the mercenaries who ridden one, a CSS has the armor, thrust, and aerodynamic profile (combined with kinetic shielding) for atmospheric assaults, but lacks the maneuverability and speed of atmospheric aircraft.