B E A C O N
Image Source: John Liberto on ArtStation
Affiliation: One Sith
Manufacturer: Titan Industries
Model: USS (Ultrachrome Superior Shielding)
Modularity:
- Modular Weapons Bay - May be purchased with no ordinance or a choice of one of three, may be swapped out after purchase (is removable).
Material: Ultrachrome Plating and Frame, Transparisteel Display (Interior)
Classification: Starfighter
Length: 7 m
Height: 3 m
Width: 13 m
Armament:
- Capital [x4]
[2x] Heavy Laser Cannons
[*]Defense [x4]
- [2x] Heavy Point Defense Lasers
[*]Ordinance [x1]
- [1x] Modular Weapons Bay
Choices of (One only):
- [1x] Proton Torpedo Launcher
- [1x] Concussion Missile Launcher
- [1x] Shadow Bomb Deployer
- [1x] Empty Slot
Squadron Count: 4
Special Features:
- Standard Shielding
- Isotope-5 Reactor
- Advanced Sensor System
Maneuverability Rating: 2
Speed Rating: 1
Hyperdrive Class: None
Strengths:
- Ultrachrome Hull and Frame are highly resistant to blasterfire and concussive force, capable of evenly distributing the heat given off by plasma rounds while also reflecting them.
- Advanced Sensor System provides temporary ability to check for stealth ships.
- Special Isotope-5 Reactor provides more efficient power delivery and usage for ship systems with proper balance.
- Due to a lack of hyperdrive the ship weighs much less than the standard starfighter of the same size, also allowing the ship to direct more power to its engines for speed.
- If too much energy is absorbed by the ultrachrome hull the entire ship will melt at once, essentially guaranteeing fatalities.
- The Advanced Sensor System is only capable of checking for cloaked ships at set intervals ranging upwards ten to twenty minutes apart due to the strain it puts on the ship - attempts at shortening its intervals through tampering or slicing would prompt the unstable Isotope-5 Reactor to explode due to a surge in power consumption.
- The instability of the Isotope-5 reactor requires that whenever the Advanced Sensor is pushed to search for cloaked ships that shielding is reduced to 25% and movement be slowed to at least 30% thrust.
Description: It is common knowledge that the One Sith have a very poor fleet that hinges on the intelligence of the commander involved in skirmishes rather than the reliability of a consistently powerful ship, and while this may have been acceptable under some other person's influence, Silara Vantai - more well-known as Darth Vitium in most public forums - has found it to be entirely unacceptable. She, as the Voice of the One Sith ranging in influence from the deep core to the inner rim, has dedicated not only her own resources of Ultrachrome but also her consultation and general knowledge to ensure that a new, elite, top-of-the-line craft be created for the Sith fleet, which she has watched crumble twice now.
Due to the recent surge of stealth craft, most namely the cloaking of ships through stygium ore or other means of cloaking, the ship has been equipped with an Advanced Sensor System that has seen little action or use since the days of the old Sith Empire that is designed to temporarily increase its range and detect stealth craft. Although this provides a good advantage over stealth craft in most cases, this sensor requires a lengthy interval between searching for stealth crafts, the interval attributed mostly to the presence of an advanced shield and a relatively unstable reactor that could rip the ship apart if the secure lock in the software is bypassed by a slicer or tampering. Although its armaments are rather generic in nature, it has a modular ordinance bay that may have various missile launchers placed at the base of the craft in a special slot that can be swapped out at any given time during maintenance with another launcher (listed above as options) or removed altogether. Although a small craft and thus fast to begin with, the hyperdrive has been excluded from production to ensure that it can reach peak speeds with good maneuverability while also preventing theft if one were to somehow be boarded or taken. The Terentatek is only produced on Coruscant.
Development Thread:
Intent: Give the One Sith some reliable starfighters that could be considered top-of-the-line.
Who Can Use This: Members of the One Sith that have obtained permission from the faction staff.
Primary Source: N/A
