Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Image Source: A screencap from the excellent short film ‘Leviathan.’
Affiliation: Clan Rekali, select customers, the Kathol Outback
Manufacturer: Clan Rekali
Model: Ishmael-class Whaling Vessel
Modularity: Can be reconfigured to specialize in specific prey. Sometimes modified to mount turbolasers and other standard weapons instead of whaling gear, as detailed below.
Production: Limited
Material: Havod hull, glasteel viewports
Classification: Whaling Vessel
Length: 600m
Width: 360m
Height: 160m
Armament:
Versus large spaceborne creatures, such as exogorths: 20
Against virtually anything else: 4
When modified with standard weapons instead of whaling gear: 7
Against physical impact, projectiles, etc.: 14
Against energy weapons: 5
2 squadrons of small whaling vessels
Assorted shuttlecraft and light transports
Special Features:
Capital-scale power harpoon launchers
Capital-scale Conner net launchers
Capital-scale electro-net guns
Capital-scale stun net launchers
Capital-scale stun lasers
Heavy tractor beams
Very slow hyperdrive mated with very precise navicomputer
Space-dwelling creature processing facilities
Heavy particle shields
Light energy shields
High-capacity life-form scanners
Maneuverability Rating: 11
Speed Rating: 11
Hyperdrive Class: 6. The vessel can also link with modular hyperdrives, after the model of the Clan Rekali Ganker Limpets, to reach Class 3 for transport across galactic distances. This is not a cheap or easy process. The Ishmael-class tends to work in only a handful of localized regions in its operational lifetime, at most.
Strengths:
Currently unsurpassed at hunting massive space-dwelling creatures.
Fairly strong particle shields and hull.
Capable of reliable microjumps (usually in the light-hour range).
Powerful life-form scanners.
In most combat situations, useless.
Outfitted with a stunningly slow (but very precise) hyperdrive, unless being transported between regions of the galaxy.
Very light energy shields.
Description: The Ishmael-class whaler is designed to hunt and process large space-dwelling creatures, including but not limited to:
Exogorths
Purrgil whales
Colossus wasps
Neebrays
Giant plasma-fliers
Miner’s horrors
Qworlth skaals
Barris
Space grazers
Space worms
Stillsails
The Ishmael-class is a common sight in the Hard Roil, the Denari Nebula, and the Indrexu Spiral. It is sometimes seen in the Kathol Outback and the Chiloon Rift.
Due to the ship’s modularity, availability, capacity, and situational strengths, the Ishmael-class is sometimes modified by Underground forces in the Kathol Outback. However, no matter how heavily modified, it makes a poor warship or combat carrier, and only a decent mobile shadowport or outlaw tech chopshop.
Development Thread: None
Intent: Space whaling
Who Can Use This: Clan Rekali, select customers, the Kathol Outback/Underground
Primary Source: None
