Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A new kind of boarding ship.
- Image Source: “Seek Out New Life,” by Neil Blevins, found at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Jv01z
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: My immense nostalgia for Descent.
- Manufacturer: Clan Rekali
- Model: SHK-B11 Boarding Pod
- Affiliation: Closed Market (ask first)
- Production: Minor production
- Material: Durasteel hull
- Classification: Boarding Fighter
- Length: 2.3m
- Width: 2.3m
- Height: 2.3m
- Armament: Low
1 Laser Cannon - 2 Antipersonnel Heavy Repeaters
- 1 Antipersonnel Hard-Sound Projector
- 1 Multifunction Gas Dispenser
- Vibration Generators
[*]Defenses: Moderate
[*]Squadron Count: 12
[*]Maneuverability Rating: High
[*]Speed Rating: Low
[*]Hyperdrive Class: None
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Redundant inertial dampeners
- Redundant omnidirectional repulsorlifts
- Redundant shield generators
- Anti-concussion field
- Surface vibration generators
- External data spikes
- Seeker dispenser (10 seekers, mission-specific)
- Field disruptor
Strengths:
- Maneuverable
- Tough
- Bouncy
- Can maneuver in six degrees of freedom, independent of local artificial gravity
- No hyperdrive
- Slow
- Cramped
- Lightly armed - it carries exactly one weapon capable of hurting another starship: a single laser cannon
Description: The SHK-B11 Boarding Pod is just plain mean.
Imagine a ship gets close to you. Doesn’t matter how. What matters is that it left something behind, and there’s now a little ridged sphere bobbing around your airlock or bridge or whatever. Maybe it data-spikes the airlock open. Maybe it takes a cannon to your viewport. Either way, that sphere bounces through your ship’s corridors and delivers copious amounts of hurt.
It’s killable, even for ship crewers. Traps, ambushes, quick thinking, missile launchers. Wear it down and it’ll die like anything else. The hard part is pinning it down. It fits through most capital ship corridors just fine, and has a knack for enlarging doorways as necessary, in one way or another. It’s a terror weapon: there’s nothing that throws the other side off their game like ‘oh gosh oh gosh there’s a starfighter in my hallway.’
