Gluk, Stock, and Two Smoking Lasers
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A beautiful boat to sell at Quekko's Choice Ship Emporium.
- Image Source: Ryan Coyle
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation, HEAVILY modified by many people
- Affiliation: A lucky customer
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Modified VCX-100 with large chunks of Gozanti-class bolted on
- Production: Unique
- Material: Durasteel, alusteel
- Classification: Light freighter
- Length: 49m
- Width: 35m
- Height: 15m
- Armament: Extreme
- Dorsal and ventral dual light turbolasers
- Defenses: Average
- Reinforced hull
- Ray shields
- Unreliable anticoncussion field
- Squadron Count: None (1)
- Maneuverability Rating: Very High
- Speed Rating: Very High
- Hyperdrive: Class 1.5
- All standard features for a light freighter
- Capes (see note under 'Strengths')
- Anticoncussion field (see note under 'Weaknesses')
- Quite quick and nimble.
- A couple of nasty dual light turbolaser turrets.
- Gigantic closet full of capes for every occasion.
- Excellent field of view out the front bubble.
- The front is a bubble. As with any VCX-100, run into anything face-first, and the cockpit just plain will not survive.
- You'd think that would have led previous owners to install particle shields or even anticoncussion fields. They did - and then promptly destroyed said shields by running into things. The particle shields are inoperable, irreplaceable, and impossible to remove. They are currently home to a polite family of mole-fleas. The anticoncussion field is deeply unreliable; flip a coin for its odds of protecting you from a collision.
The Ball and Chain is a highly customized Corellian freighter that Jerec Asyr acquired through his associate Muk Moadda. It has no recorded provenance and a few filed-off serial numbers. Aesthetically, though it began life as a VCX-100, its engines are completely aftermarket. 'Aftermarket' may be too polite a term. Someone stripped out the original engine block and replaced it with the engines of a Gozanti-class cruiser. Big engines plus small ship equals fast.
A colony of minuscule, sapient mole-fleas lives in the ruined particle shield generator. They are excellent long-term residents, willing to help with small repairs.
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