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Approved Starship The Dawntreader

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
  • Manufacturer: Haor Chall Engineering
  • Model: Heavily Modified Corona-class Armed Frigate
  • Affiliation: Zark Pulsar
  • Production: Unique
  • Material: Durasteel Hull, Quadranium Frame
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  • Classification: Assault Frigate
  • Length: 376.29 meters
  • Width: 376.29 meters
  • Height: 220 meters
  • Armament: High
13 Ion Cannon Batteries (52 Ion Cannons equivalent)
8 Turbolaser Batteries (32 Turbolasers equivalent)
10 Point Defense Cannons
10 Warhead Launchers
1 Tractor Beam Battery
SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Boarding Harpoons
  • Escape Pods
  • Exterior Docking Rings
  • Long-range Communications Array
  • Holonet Transceiver
  • Expanded Detention Cells
  • Standard Life Support Systems
  • Standard Navigational Systems
  • Advanced Sensor Array
  • Advanced Targeting Array

Strengths:
  • Pirate Hunter: Extensively modified to carry a heavy arsenal while maintaining enough speed to stay with their quarry at least long enough to knock out their sublight engines, the Dawntreader specializes in fast attack, disabling and boarding operations. Possessing both decently powered engines and enough firepower to punch a little above its weight, the armed frigate is designed to catch overconfident foes off guard.
  • Maneuverable Design: The Corona's distinctive saucer design is not simply an aesthetic choice. With three hundred sixty degree coverage for thrusters, the armed frigate rotates while in flight, providing some of the ship's propulsion as well as allowing for extremely agile turns and jukes. This is one of the primary reasons the frigate doesn't also have top of the line shielding, in most situations it doesn't need to, as it is capable of in essence "speed tanking" its foe by dodging incoming fire.
Weaknesses:
  • Non-Lethal Emphasis: While the Dawntreader is extensively modified to be quite heavily armed, much of that armament comes in the form of its impressive array of ion cannon batteries, as well as its point defense cannons for managing enemy starfighters. As such, it is always a race to see if the frigate can disable enough critical systems before its prey bites back hard enough, and should it come up against an opponent with ion resistances, it would find itself suddenly in a lot of trouble.
  • Reduced Cargo Hold: To make space for the additional weapons emplacements, the boarding harpoons, the expanded brig, and all the overhauled systems in the time since the craft came under possession of its current owner, the Dawntreader's cargo hold is severely reduced compared to that of a typical Corona-class. The stock Corona is capable of transporting 450 tons of cargo, the Dawntreader is capable of shipping maybe 25. Aside from human cargo, the ship doesn't make much of a hauling vehicle.
  • Outdated Systems: Modified and refurbished enough over the lifetimes of its many owners, its unclear how much of the Dawntreader is part of the original manufacture, if any at all. While it may not have been built during the Clone Wars, it probably wasn't much longer after, and the patchwork of power flow reroutes and auxiliaries booting off other auxiliaries means the Dawntreader's power flow can be prone to unstable fluctuations. In situations of extreme stress, such as the midst of battle, if pushed too hard the starship can even suffer an overheat and burnout, severely reducing power flow to critical systems.
  • Weakness to EMP/Ion: With its also atypical contained bridge, the Corona-class has no viewport visible from the captain's chair. Relying instead on a complex network of virtual displays fed from an array of exterior sensors, the bridge of the starship is capable of projecting a three hundred sixty view of space around them. Unfortunately, it also means that if the Corona overheats enough or suffers critical ion damage to enough primary systems, the bridge crew can quite literally go blind. Unable to even manually target in such a scenario, the Dawntreader would literally be a sitting duck.
  • Not Exactly Spacelane Legal: A number of minor modifications made to the Dawntreader don't exactly live up to the full standards of the law in certain areas of space. The primary culprits being the boarding harpoons, such additions to the craft often make it necessary to acquire a writ of authorization to fly in certain territories, lest the crew risk being caught by a patrol or border inspection and come into confrontation with the local authorities.

Description:

Not a lot is known and even less is said about how the Dawntreader first came into Captain Zark Pulsar's possession.

Very few crewmen are still around from those early days, but if you were to get a few drinks in the ones who had been around long enough, and they might just whisper rumors about a pirate crew of Weequay that had terrorized the stars of Kathol Outback. They would tell you, in hushed tones, of the story about a renegade Jedi Knight, a ronin, who had tracked them back to their hideout. They would tell you about the day the Weequay crew just disappeared, never to be seen again, and how coincidentally not long after a ship with different markings but the same design began patrolling the same region of space. This one hunted pirates, instead of preying on transports. And it called itself the Dawntreader.

Deceptively well armed, everything about the ship is meant to scream honest transport or unscrupulous smuggler. Relying on his camouflage to get in close, the Corona then springs into action, disabling the pirate ship with its ion batteries. Then, if the captains cannot come to terms, the frigate sinks its teeth in with the boarding harpoons, and the real fight begins.

On the inside, the Dawntreader looks worse off than its outer hull. Flickering lights, dimly lit corridors, spare parts and other debris scattered half-hazardly on corners or against stairwells. It is a ship that has for a long time placed appearances on the very bottom of its priority list. Yet there is still a fundamental beauty to its design, the long dead minds of Haor Chall Engineering circa the fall of the Old Republic having invented a beautiful ship at heart. Over the years, much has been done in an apparent attempt to fix that, as patch-worked into the Haor Chall aesthetic is a more grungy, Corellian design in places that have been renovated.

The Corona possesses a limited hangar, exiting at the craft's central base, containing six Flarestar-class attack shuttles, for everything from fire support in battles to boarding actions to transport to and from the frigate for whatever purpose, including planetary exploration, although the starship is capable of atmospheric landings itself.
 

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