Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
Image Source: Both images by unusualsuspex
Affiliation: Trandoshans
Manufacturer: Trandoshans
Model: Herald-class Trandoshan Armed Transport
Modularity: Can be modified within reasonable limits. For example, raider and slave quarters could be stripped out for cargo space equivalent to a standard medium freighter.
Production: Minor
Material: Durasteel hull, transparisteel viewports
Classification: Dropship, Transport
Length: 35m
Height: 18m (raised), 12m (lowered)
Width: 15m
Armament: 7 (laser turrets, autoblasters, net launchers)
Defenses: 15
Squadron Count: 5
Special Features:
- Golan Arms RL-40 stun net launchers
- Memory bone chambers for the four crewers (one pilot, two gunners, one quartermaster)
- Slave cells with various modes of restraint
- Adjustable airlocks with cofferdams
- Heavy shields, durable hull
Speed Rating: 5
Hyperdrive Class: 4
Strengths:
- Heavy shields, durable hull (defense rating 15)
- Armament optimized for antipersonnel use and crowd control
- Can carry thirty Trandoshan combatants, four Trandoshan Rocket Turrets, and a handful of speeder bikes
- Deployment options include landing, rappelling from side hatches, and omnicompatible ship-to-ship boarding
- Prow can elevate, offering overwatch options
- Lightish weapons loadout (armament rating 7)
- Armament not optimized for ship-to-ship combat
- Slow hyperdrive
- All controls and design elements are optimized for Trandoshans; other species may find them tricky
Various Trandoshan groups have been building these ships for decades now. As a result, the Herald-class is a common sight in the Trandosha/Kashyyyk system and throughout Hutt space. It's also worth noting that just about any Herald-class one encounters is likely to be rusty, grimy, dinged-up, and otherwise unwashed. These are work ships, not display pieces.
Development Thread: None
Intent: A statted-out version of the ships from Republic Commando, and a nice bit of bait for people to play Trandoshans.
Who Can Use This: Any Trandoshan PCs; anyone who RPs acquiring one; me.
Primary Source: A modern version of this.
