Gluk, Stock, and Two Smoking Lasers
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: An ancient alien escape pod found drifting near Drogheda.
- Image Source: Phil Saunders, and comic panels from Devilworlds
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: The Jerni empire (extinct)
- Affiliation: Claimed by Shaze of the New Imperial Order
- Model: The Bleak Point Derelict
- Production: Unique
- Material: Alien alloy comparable to doonium
- Classification: Escape pod
- Length: 7 meters
- Width: 2.5 meters
- Height: 2.5 meters
- Armament: None
- Defenses: High
- Armor plating
- Deflector shields
- Squadron Count: None
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive Class: Very Slow | 7.0
- Alien Communications Array
- Alien Deflector Shield Generator
- Alien Sublight Engines and Maneuvering Thrusters
- Alien Hyperdrive
- Alien Life Support Systems
- Alien Navigational Systems
- Alien Repulsorlift Engines
- Alien Sensor Array
- Can Enter Atmosphere and Land
- Advanced Alien Atmospheric-Friction Shield
- Advanced Alien Relativistic Shield
- Research treasure trove that can lead to advances or refinements for all sorts of modern systems.
- Not functional after drifting for several thousand years.
- Underpowered for a small starship, even if it was brought fully online somehow.
- Unarmed.
In 860ABY, this derelict escape pod drifted near Drogheda and the Mara Corridor. Near a rogue asteroid called Bleak Point, two ships scanned it down: the Sith Empire armed transport Prequelle, under the command of a Chiss named Shaze, and a nondescript shuttle owned by the smuggler Jerec Asyr. They both identified the pod as uniquely valuable. In the ensuing struggle, Asyr's shuttle escaped with major damage while Shaze secured the derelict. Shortly thereafter, Shaze defected to the New Imperial Order, and the Bleak Point Derelict went with her.
Though the pod held no colossal secrets, the wholly alien tech base of its systems became an invaluable R&D resource for NIO shipwrights. Xenologists, meanwhile, learned a great deal about the lost Jerni Empire from the body and fragmentary records of the pod's lonely, desiccated occupant.
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