Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide a recon probe Lucerne Labs product line-up
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Directorate, Silver Jedi Concord, Lucerne Labs customers
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: L1 Rimor-class Recon Probe
- Modularity: different types of beacons can be fitted into the beacon launcher
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Starskimmer-series Hull (Carbo-plas, condensed-matter composite, corellian epoxy), Psykhe series Droid Brain, Bia series Portable Fusion Generator, typical probe droid components
- Classification: 2nd Degree
- Weight: Heavy
- Height: Large (approximately 2 meters tall, 6 meters long)
- Movement: baffled drive / repulsorlift
- Armaments: None
- Misc. Equipment:
- General
- Psykhe series Droid Brain with "Space (environment)" knowledge cartridge and "Sensor (analysis)" knowledge cartridge
- 2 retractable manipulator arms
- Droid automated repair upgrade
- retractable solar panels
- ventral Tractor Beam Projector
- electrite crystal based self-destruct mechanism copied from the Elegance Messenger Drone
- Sensors
- Communications
- Resistances (Optional):
- Energy (And other Blaster type weapons): High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: None
- Ion/EMP: Average
- General
- Deep Space Surveyor: Rimor is designed to conduct fairly detailed scans of deep space and natural phenomena, having a wide variety of sensors at its disposal to scan and fully understand its environment.
- Tactical Recon: Rimor's primary sensor is a StarSight-class Sensor Array, which while integrates a whost of surveying sensors, is still primarily a tactical sensor. The StarSight is fairly good at identifying starship classes and providing supplemental targeting data.
- Low Profile: The Rimor is designed to have a relatively low sensor profile from long-range, using a non-metallic hull, baffled chemical drive, and its relatively small size to avoid much notice. It frequently uses silent running techniques, using the minimal amount of systems necessary to complete its mission, using passive sensors, and simply coasting off of built-up momentum. oftentimes, power is supplied as needed by retractable solar panels to minimize its energy signature. Consequently, many long-range sensor scans will often suggest it is a minute asteroid if it's detected at all. Its communications devices are all designed to be fairly difficult to detect, also aiding in its attempts to remain relatively concealed. All of this does little to protect the Rimor from being detected and revealed for what truly is at close ranges.
- Beacon Launcher: Like the DP-2 Probe Droid, the Rimor has a small beacon bay and launcher, which allows it to deploy sensor beacons, directional landing beacons, and hyperspace beacons.
- Easy to Deploy: Rimor can be launched from dedicated probe launchers, many warhead launchers, or even launch itself out of hangars or airlocks by using its own repulsorlifts.
- Powerful Sensor Platform: Rimor has both quality and quantity in its sensors, with it being capable of providing a wide variety of good data for both celestial survey and tactical tasks.
- Advanced Communications Suite: Rimor's communications systems not only have fairly good range, but most of them are also difficult to detect and hard to jam.
- Low Profile: The Rimor is usually difficult to properly discern for what it truly is at a distance.
WEAKNESSES
- No Direct Fire Weapons: Rimor does not have any direct fire weapons of any sort, making it close to helpless in a direct fight, though its self-destruct may damage enemies that get too close to it.
- Fragile: Rimor is not meant for direct combat, and usually only a few laser cannon bolts are needed to completely destroy it or accidentally trigger its self-destruct.
- Limited Propulsion: Rimor doesn't carry much fuel due to its small size, instead relying mostly on simple momentum to travel through real space. It does not typically travel very fast, nor it is it capable of moving and maneuvering around like most starships. Most Rimors are physically recovered by starships at the end of their missions.
Sensor probes have become reasonably common platforms employed by a host of organizations to both explore and monitor areas of space. The Rimor is one such platform produced by Lucerne Labs as a generalist type of probe designed to be deployed from starship for both intrasystem exploration and tactical surveillance. Roughly the size of a small starfighter or capital grade warhead, the Rimor's fuselage is packed with a wide variety of sensor types, allowing it do anything from weather studies and mineral analysis to detecting and tracking ships in hyperspace to providing supplemental targeting data during battles. Little room is left for much else, with a relatively small droid brain and limited baffled drive taking up most of the remaining space. Rimors typically travel languidly through space, drifting along on built up momentum while gathering vast amounts of data which are usually promptly and discreetly transmitted to a host ship or installation for further analysis. While Rimors have a very limited supply of fuel, retractable solar panels provide a can almost constant means of energy regeneration in most systems, allowing the probe's electronics to function for days at end. Most Rimor missions consequently involve the probe being deployed for long periods of time before being retrieved by a starship for reconditioning and future redeployments.
