Kurt Meyer
Let Me Push That Button
- Intent: To Sub Kurt's New Ship
- Image Source: Andrian Luchian
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Various, Kurt Meyer
- Model: Ugly
- Affiliation: Kurt Meyer, [member="Jamie Pyne"]
- Production: Unique
- Material: Fiberplast, Dallorian Alloy, Terenthium & Desh
- Classification: Personal Freighter
- Length: 76m
- Width: 39m
- Height: 22m
- Armament: Average
Forward Facing Blaster Cannons [4]
Concussion Missile Launcher [2]
- Defenses: Low
- Hangar: None
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Extreme
- Hyperdrive Class: 1
- Communications Relay
- Emergency Escape Pod
- Heavily Modified Ion Engine
- Plush Comfort Seating
- Ablative Shielding
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracer
- Standard Targeting System
- Standard Sensors
- Maneuvering Thrusters
- Encryption Module
- Medical Pod
- Smuggler's Bay
- Standard Shield Generator
- Inertial Compensators
- Blast Doors
- Exposed Wiring
- Slave-Rig System
Sensor Mask - Small devices placed all over the hull of The Eve which allow it to more easily escape detection via sensors. These are not full-proof, but they allow the profile of the ship to remain smaller and less detectable.
Solarium Glasteel - Small pieces of Solarium Glasteel have been installed all over The Eve, replacing windows and other sections of the ship. This allows a small portion of the vessel to be powered by the constant cosmic radiation and eases some of the draw of the reactor.
Solarium Gather Panels - Several large panels of The Eve have been replaced with Solarium Gather Panels, allowing the ship to take in even more energy and augment it's power supply.
Meyer Drive - Designed by Kurt himself, the Meyer Drive is an after-market add on to The Eve that allows to the ship to transition in and out of hyperspace in a unique and more cost effective means. The Meyer Drive is the center of the ship itself, and much of the vessel was actually built around ensuring that it would function properly.
Flicker Cloak - The flicker cloak is a unique piece of technology designed by Kurt's roommate at Kalinda University. The device works off a new principal function and works differently than standard Stygium cloaking devices, meaning that it is more difficult to detect.
Strengths:
- Flicker Cloak: Functioning on separate principals than standard cloaking measures, the Flicker Cloak is capable of rendering The Eve undetectable by even crystal grav traps. The function of the device isn't to render the vessel invisible, rather to change it's sensor readings entirely. In basic terms, the flicker cloak makes The Eve appear as something completely different than what it actually is, turning what should appear as a medium sized star-ship into little more than a tiny, almost unreadable rock on most sensor devices. The advantages of this are of course numerous, and allow a ship to travel almost completely undetected if properly used.
- Smuggling Ship: The Eve is a smuggling ship, and on top of that it is what is known as an 'ugly'. The entirety of the vessel is customized and outfitted in such a way that most starship manufacturers would want to throw up. There are out of place wires, panels that make no sense, and hidden things stuck throughout the entirety of the ship. Everything inside of The Eve was designed and customized to suit Kurt, and the ship itself is more of a second home than an actual starship.
- Defenses: Though armed well enough, The Eve does not have a grand host of defenses. This is mostly due to the fact that the ship was originally a light freighter used only for running equipment between short distances. Though Kurt has managed to update things somewhat, the hull is still thin and the shield is less than stellar for a vessel of this size.
- Flicker Cloak: An incredibly advanced piece of technology, The Flicker cloak is finicky at best. When talking about this device it is important to remember that this was designed by a student with the help of...another student. The Flicker Cloak isn't always reliable, often rather finicky when in use. The device also draws heavily on the engines and when the cloak is active the Ships engines suffer quite a bit.
The Eve is a ship built out of spare parts, boredom, and the knowledge of half a dozen students of Kalinda University.
Kurt Meyer has been attending Kalinda for nearly a year now, going through several engineering classes and making friends whom are both smarter than him and more resourceful. Through these other students, Kurt began to see the path of building a new ship since he had given The Messa to [member="Kaileann Vera"]. Though the process was a slow one, the half dozen students eventually managed to create the vessel known as The Eve.
Construction of the ship was simplistic, piece by piece, and not particularly planned out.
The Eve was little more than a side-project for each of the students, beginning with the frame of an old YT freighter and eventually blossoming into an entire starship. Each panel, each piece, and each part was sourced separately by one of the students, with the majority being scrounged from Kalinda's Science Department and teachers who were both amused and rather enthused by the efforts of their students.
Of course, this means that The Eve is what is known as an 'ugly'. It has no standard design and therefore no standard replacement pieces, everything on the ship is designed and placed separately. This makes repairs both difficult and easy, and also means that there are several 'quirks' throughout the vessel.
It also means that several of the ships systems are highly experimental and aren't exactly approved by any government or corporate entity. These include the ships engines, the flicker cloak, and even some of the sensor systems.
The most unique sub-system of The Eve is a device known as the Flicker Cloak. The Flicker cloak is a device designed by Aram Nia, a Twi'lek that Kurt rooms with at Kalinda University. The device utilizes a mesh of technology, drawing components from standard shield generators, stygium cloaks, and even repulsors. The Flicker Cloak worked on the principal of projection, rather than actual invisibility, crafting a field that constantly flickers and erupts around the ship. This field distorts sensor, gravemetric, and even net readings, allowing The Eve to appear as little more than a small meteor on most sensor technology.
Of course this system as well as the ships Meyer Drive and it's sophisticated energy distribution system makes the vessel a perfect smuggler ship, though whether this was intended is impossible to actually say.
It cannot be understated that The Eve was cobbled together by students, and thus holds many glitches and personal touches from said students. For many of Kurt's friends, the vessel is a binding of just what they are capable of doing.
Of course, eventually when the vessel was completed it was gifted to Kurt by the others. He was the one that brought them together, he was the one that had the idea, and in the end he had done most of the convincing to source the parts and pieces eventually required to build the ship itself.
It also helped that he was the only pilot.
Kurt took the ship and dubbed it The Eve, after the famed raced on Tatooine that he had won thrice in his childhood.
The Eve is an incredibly personal ship, and to Kurt is is quickly becoming his second home. The vessel is decked out from top to bottom as less of a ship and more of a home. Though there are several bedrooms, Kurt only occupies one, decorated to his...and Jamie Pyne's liking. The others are used as guest rooms, save for one which Kurt keeps prepared in case Kaile ever needs a place to stay.
Aside from these rooms The Eve also has several other features which make it feel like less of a starship, and more of a home.
