Kingsley
intergalactic bird of mystery
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a personal freighter for Kingsley's smuggling operations with a for all we know totally fake connection to Star Wars canon.
- Image Source: The Force Awakens, Force Awakens Visual Dictionary
- Canon Link: Eravana
- Primary Source: /
- Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation
- Affiliation: Kingsley
- Model: Modified Baleen-class Heavy Freighter
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel, Solarium Glasteel
- Classification: Bulk Freighter
- Length: 426 meters
- Width: 210 meters
- Height: 74 meters
- Armament: Very Low
- Defenses: Extreme
- Hangar Space: Base
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 0 Squadrons
- Support Craft: 1 Squadron or Light Freighter
- Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive Class: Average: 3
STANDARD FEATURES
- Communications
- Environmental
- Propulsion
- Sensors
- Cry Baby (Sensor Decoy)
- Cap Drains
- "Screamer" Active Jammer
- Emergency Booster Pods
- Smuggling Compartments
- Military Grade Deflectors: Eravana can take a surprising amount of punishment for a civilian transport. This is thanks to its stolen Galactic Alliance prototype shield systems.
- Turbodrive: Experimental booster pods are attached to the aft forward hold. Activation provides a temporary boost in speed rating to Extreme at the cost of transport grid structural integrity. Leaking cargo is a small price to pay for not getting caught.
- Merchant's Menagerie: A labyrinth of specialized compartments and mag locked shipping containers honeycombs the Eravana's cargo holds. Both its maze-like layout and scattered exotic hazards present unexpected challenges to any hostile boarding parties.
- Titanic Proportions: Bulk freighters aren't ideal for blockade running. A smuggler would have to be pretty desperate to use one for illegal trafficking. Eravana is big and slow and stands out.
- Crossed Wires: Malfunctions are all too common on a ship this old, especially one as haphazardly modded as the Eravana. It is susceptible to ion weaponry and has about a fifty fifty chance every time it tries to jump.
- Landing Not Recommended: Heavy freighters like the Baleen-class are not designed to make planetfall. Instead the transport relies on orbital facilities and cargo shuttles to ferry goods and supplies back and forth.
One of the original Baleen-class heavy freighters, Eravana has been operating for a little more than eight centuries. Throughout that time it has seen countless owners and operators, passing from hand to hand over generations. Its been retrofitted several times over and barely resembles the original factory schematics but through everything she is still more or less the same ship.
Most recently the bulk freighter has fallen into the possession of Captain Kingsley, a small time hiitian con man with ties to the Smuggler's Alliance and Rebel Underground. Together with his crew of loyal jawa
The freighter's forward hold doubles as a docking bay, and is used for cargo that demands special handling. A stolen Sith-Imperial shuttle is usually stored here for planetary excursions. Everything else is housed in containers attached to the transport grid between the bow section and engines. Eravana transports a sprawling labyrinth of goods bound for distant starports.
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