Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Affiliation: Select customers
Manufacturer: Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps
Model: Colo-class frigate
Modularity: I suppose you could fit something interesting on the deck or in the hold, with some work. Armaments optional, as detailed below.
Production: Limited
Material: Duraplast, fiberplast, brylark wood, Colossus Wasp chitin, Neebray Wingleather (sails)
Classification: Personal transport
Length: 260m with bowsprit
Width: 40m
Height: 230m, keel to mainmast
Armament: Rating 0. Optional comprehensive defensive package (rating 6) includes self-contained power plant and layered coverage from CIWS, antimissile octets, short-range anti-boarding null-burst projectors, point-defense missiles, and quad lasers. Optional package does not include anti-capital weapons.
Hangar: Room for 1-2 small personal transports.
Special Features:
- Neebray Wingleather sails
- Brath Qellan biotech components (mainly hyperdrive/repulsors/inertial dampeners)
- Ganathan-derived steam plant and/or standard fuel cell plant
- Deflector shield generator (optional/easily outfitted)
- Redundant atmospheric containment field
- Ventral observation bubble
- Amphibious
Maneuverability Rating: 7
Speed Rating: 6
Hyperdrive Class: 4
- Very low, diffused metal content makes it look like a lump of inert matter on magnetic sensors (without defensive package)
- Sails leave no drive emissions and create no glow
- Fuel-efficient
- Organic construction maximizes potential for the ship to be personally attuned to a Force-sensitive owner
- Extremely low to zero vulnerability to slicing and ion/EMP weapons
- Slightly more gorgeous than [member="Danger Arceneau"]
- Slow hyperdrive
- Sails, though included within shields, are far more vulnerable than normal engines once the shields are down
- Lightly armed, especially in anti-capital situations, or totally unarmed
- Significant modifications would require an upgraded power plant
Description: Like the ancient warship Fairwind, the Colo is an amphibious starship and airship modeled after a pre-technological sailboat. Though effective in its way, it is primarily a curio, a luxury vessel that hearkens back to a bygone age. Many elements are deliberately anachronistic. Brath Qellan biotechnology, procured from a world very close to Mandalorian space, also plays a significant role, though the Qellan hyperdrive is quite slow.
Of course, the vessel's unique characteristics also mean that, if someone were to put in the work to figure out an appropriate, comprehensive, non-metallic stealth setup, the Colo wouldn't need thrust trace dampers or be vulnerable to magnetic scans. Just a thought. That would, however, take serious effort and expense on someone else's part. The stock Colo has no stealth capabilities apart from silent running.
As much of the vessel is organic in origin and archaic in design, Dathomiri Witches have found it comfortable and natural beyond your average starship. Likewise, many elite customers who prefer their homes to starships have found the spacious and well-appointed interior to be unusually relaxing.
Development Thread: Carida: Corner the Market (17 posts - concept exploration - posted by the owner of Theed Hangar; Ajira is an employee)
Intent: Treasure Planet, man.
Who Can Use This: Select customers.
Primary Source: Does this look like it's influenced by any Chaos submissions?
