OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A Gree shuttle capable of flying through a star.
- Image Source: EVE Online InterBus Shuttle; interior by me (thanks Wombo)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Gree Empire (ancient)
- Affiliation: The Forerunners
- Market Status: Closed market (any Forerunners character can use one; others, ask first)
- Model: Golden Transect
- Production: Semi-unique
- Material: Ancient Gree alloys
- Classification: Shuttle
- Length: 22 meters
- Width: 28 meters
- Height: 4 meters
- Armament: None
- Defenses: Extreme
- Squadron Count: None (1)
- Maneuverability Rating: Very High
- Speed Rating: Extreme
- Hyperdrive: Class 1.17
- Ancient Gree equivalents of all standard features
- Advanced ancient engines
- Advanced ancient shields
- Specialized field projector tuned for stellar passage (comparable to a Kerts-Bhrg field)
- Advanced ancient heat sinks and radiation protection
- Emergency Gree solar sail
STRENGTHS
- Extremely fast.
- Highly maneuverable.
- Extremely durable.
- Can safely fly into the outer regions of most stars.
- An exotic emergency solar sail allows the Golden Transect to 'catch a current' inside a star and, ideally, yank itself to relative safety if needed. This emergency maneuver, while computer-assisted, would require deep familiarity with the sail, the ship, and the internal dynamics of the star type in question.
- Totally unarmed.
- Everything is designed for Gree senses, appendages, and sensibilities. The Forerunners have provided translated labels for all controls, but still.
- Good luck finding replacement parts.
- Engaging with its alien systems (e.g. repair, refuel, maintenance) means taking up inordinate space and resources, comparable to hosting a squadron of small craft.
- The shuttle's stellar-passage field generator was designed for the outer regions of main sequence stars, giants, and supergiants. Exercise special caution with hot white stars.
- Do not enter multi-million-degree stellar cores. You will die either quickly or horribly, depending on which systems fail first.
- Do not go into a neutron star, pulsar, quasar, or anything along those lines. You will die either quickly or horribly, depending on which systems fail first.
The Golden Transect shuttles are ancient vessels from the height of the Gree Empire. The Gree designed the unique field onboard for scientific and testing missions related to stellar engineering projects. If in good repair, the shuttles can linger indefinitely in the fringes of a red star, and can comfortably dive into and through the outer regions of most stars. The shuttle has appropriate sensors to navigate safely and take scientific readings: alhough it is not a dedicated or comprehensive science vessel, it would be a useful outrider for a scientific expedition.
Too large to fit inside the Forerunners' mist-woven stasis cocoons, these ships were laid up in store, drifting in deep space. Some survived the eons in reasonable condition; others did not. The Forerunners reclaimed at least one other Golden Transect from the ring of derelicts around Mugg Fallow in 874 ABY. The Forerunners' Gree engineers have only so much time and only so many tentacles. All that to say, these vessels are vanishingly rare, especially outside Forerunner
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