Dhakarta
Dar'manda
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To sub a custom podracer for Dhakarta
- Image Source: Kulless Squall, Wookieepedia
- Canon Link: Kulless Squall
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Dhakarta
- Affiliation: Dhakarta
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: With resubmission
- Production: Unique
- Material: Duravlex
- Classification: Podracer
- Role: Racing Pod Racer
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Minimum Crew: 1
- Optimal Crew: 1
- Propulsion: Repulsorlift
- Speed: Very Fast
- Maneuverability: Average
- Armament: Low
- Defenses: Average
- Squadron Count: None (it's unique)
- Passenger Capacity: 0
- Cargo Capacity: Very Small
- Mini-Repulsor Lifts - As well as the main Repulsor lifts keeping the Gev'iin afloat, the engines also have smaller repulsor lifts along their sides which can be fired individually allowing a careful pilot to make sure their engines stay near enough for the energy binders to be effective, they also allow the Gev'iin to make small 'hops' over obstacles.
- Air Brakes - They don't get much use
- Air Scoops - Helpful for maneuvering, especially through turns since Dhakarta refuses to use the Air Brakes.
- Harmonic Dampner - To dampen things in harmony
- Pressor Field - Basically a non-passive repulsor lift, several of these are used to steer the Gev'iin by shoving the ground or other solid object in one direction or another
- Tractor Beam - Used much like a pressor field, but in reverse. This helps make up for the Gev'iins lack of mobility in some situations by, for example, allowing it to 'grab hold' of an obstacle and swing around it, though one has to be careful not to hold on for too long or risk being smashed into said obstacle
- Cycling-Electromagnetic Stabilizer - It is important to be stable
- Boost Meter - Can only be used safely twice without repair and upkeep. Three times is pushing it. Four and you're going to explode for sure.
- Particle Shield - No one wants a bug to the face when you're going at unreasonable speeds
- Cap Drain Module - Dhakarta is a little bit paranoid, and does not want to lose steering at a million miles an hour, thanks
- Gatling Mounted Clingwire Tow Cable - Winning is nice, but sometimes you have to make sure your Vode at least cross the finish line
- Chaff Dispersal Unit - The singular defensive 'armament', probably illegal, installed with much stealth in a ethmane pressurized compartment, Dhakarta installed this to deploy from the back of her control pod so if someone was behind her with a more offensive weapon, she could blow one of the two chaff packages back into their engines and likely blow the underhanded bastards up. Utterly ineffective on anyone in front of her.
- Beastly - Someone is trying to pass you? No worries, just run them off the track, the Gev'iin will almost certainly be unscratched while you leave a flaming wreck in your wake
- No Pressure Management Mode Indicator - Do or die. Dhakarta stripped her machine of almost all of its safety overrides and warning systems. If her engines begin to overheat or suffer non-obvious damage, chances are the podracer will eventually fail, possibly in a spectacular manner.
- Not Subtle - The Gev'iin doesn't really make small course adjustments. Navigating largely using a mixture of pressor and tractor beams, there is a very real danger of overturning, or alternatively of trying to overcompensate for this and not changing course enough
The main aim of a racing podracer is, as one might expect, to win the race. The current fashion to achieve this is smaller, lighter, faster and more maneuverable. Accepting that she had neither the credits, resources or time to compete on that front against those with corporate backing, Dhakarta instead chose to build a rather more.. robust machine. Still more than fast enough to satisfy any daredevil, it is larger and hardier than your average podracer, though it's still not fit for the field of battle or the like.
