Mara D'Lessio Merrill
The Lesser D'Lessio
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Affiliation: Mara D'Lessio Merrill, the Kathol Outback
Manufacturer: Coronet Hypernautics, modified by the Kathol Outback
Model: CH-258 'Slice Hound' Freighter, heavily modified
Modularity: No. This ship's extreme modularity has been all used up by Mara's modifications.
Production: Unique
Material: Durasteel hull, alusteel spaceframe, matrix armor plating, steristeel instrumentation, Solarium Glasteel viewports
Classification: Personal transport, rescue and evacuation ship
Length: 50m
Height: 8m
Width: 45m
Armament: 4
- Dorsal and ventral Conqueror ion cannons (reduce shield strength by half while being fired)
- Ventral antipersonnel autoblaster
- Aft Conner net launcher (6 nets)
- Theed Hangar recon probe launcher
- Matrix armor plating
- Extremely powerful shields
- Strong cap drains protect against ion weaponry
Hangar: Stock modular hangar can fit one of the following options for any given mission:
- Two speeder/swoop bikes
- Mara's speeder
- One Corellian CH-22 'Greenstar' fighter
- QQ-45H/310T Countermeasures Module
- QQ-4U85 Tractor Shroud
- QQ-C1R-C3 "Crybaby" Defensive Decoy Module
- QQ-543N/53R Cap Drain Module
- TE-413 Fusial Engines
- Theed Hangar Reconnaissance and Survey Probe Launcher
- Aft ventral tractor/pressor beam
- Miniature medical bay
- Advanced quick-recharge shield generator
- Slave rig/long-range beckon call
- Advanced hyperdrive with Olie AGS navicomputer
- Low-grade stealth coating
- Advanced Isotope-5 reactor
- Automated firing package for turrets (stock)
Speed Rating: 4 (6 when in stealth mode)
Hyperdrive Class: 0.33
Strengths:
- Extremely powerful shields
- Reinforced hull
- Comprehensive countermeasure options
- Main guns ignore and bypass shields
- Extremely fast hyperdrive
- Probe launcher offers strategic situational awareness
- Mild stealth capabilities (anti-sensor coating and engines with a low-profile mode)
- Lightly armed, with a near-total focus on disabling or evading any given target rather than inflicting damage
- Main guns temporarily reduce the Scar of Ilum's shield strength by half while being fired
- Low cargo capacity
The key to Mara's modifications was a highly advanced Isotope-5 reactor, more powerful than virtually anything on the market. Mara directed that power into the Scar of Ilum's shield generator and fast, nimble hyperdrive. No vessel of this size has stronger shields, and hyperdrives of this grade are virtually unheard of. The engines received a mild boost as well. In the end, though, Mara's modifications taxed even the Scar's reactor, leaving no power for serious weapons.
The Scar of Ilum's mission profile involves rescue, escape, and evasion on a strategic scale. The Scar is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a warship. Instead, it's a toolbox of high-powered get-out-of-jail-free cards, such as tractor shrouds, recon probes, an encrypted beckon call, decoys, low-visibility engines, anti-sensor coating, cap drains, and powerful shields. Flying the Scar, Mara can cram her cargo hold full of Jedi Padawans or whatever, and adjourn from virtually any situation short of established, direct interdiction or advanced starfighter swarms.
The Scar is heavily weatherproofed, as it spends a good deal of time on a mountain plateau not far from Castle Miriamele. It can support half a dozen people in comfort, and cram in perhaps two dozen for a short-term emergency trip.
Development Thread:
- Swap Meet: Pergitor (37 posts, ~8 posts directly relevant) - Jorus procures engines for his daughter's ship.
- Coruscant: Please Take My Money (Isotope-5 objective, 132 posts, ~120 posts directly relevant) - Mara sacrifices the bulk of her fortune to provide humanitarian aid and reconstruction assistance to Coruscant after multiple invasions, coups, and other attacks.
- A Sound of Thunder (Isotope-5 objective, 136 posts, ~120 posts directly relevant) - Mara's ship is stolen, her crewers are injured, and her charges are murdered as she tries to evacuate the Ilum Enclave.
Intent: An escape-and-evasion ship.
Who Can Use This: Mara D'Lessio Merrill, [member="Kaili Talith"]
Primary Source: A heavily modified version of this. Precedent for hyperdrive speed: here (0.3, compared to the Scar's 0.33).
Its a bit fast for 50 meters but the work in there
