The Vulture
Butcher of Dead Worlds
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create The Vulture's primary pirate vessel
- Image Source: JC Jongwon Park
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Otkasi Süyekjïnagistar
- Affiliation: Otkasi Süyekjïnagistar
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: SA-02
- Production: Unique
- Material: Primarily Durasteel, but armor and hull plating vary due to its nature of being assembled from salvaged Chiss vessels and stations.
- Classification: Assault Cruiser
- Length: 550m
- Width: 110m
- Height: 620m
- Armament: Very High
- Four rocket pods capable of firing three self guiding Breacher rockets each. Mounted on the aft facing hull of the 'crescent' for added protection.
- Additional rocket tube used for long range Shock Net delivery/deployment via rocket. Sized to handle mid-range corvettes (up to 150 meters) and fighter squadrons.
- Defenses: Average
- Hangar Space: Low: 2 Squadrons
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 2 squadrons
- Support Craft: 0 squadrons
- Single Craft Hangar: No
- Maneuverability Rating: Very High
- Speed Rating: High
- Hyperdrive: 1.0
- All standard features
- Memory Wipe station used to remove memories of victims who surrendered rather than fight and be killed. Assures they keep their lives without endangering The Vulture and his crew.
- Cloaking Device
- Predator in Wait: Rather than being designed for prolongued combat with equals, the Sekzik Ambikya is built like an ambush predator. Cloak and sneak up on or wait for your prey before decloaking and unloading a payload, hopefully knocking out key systems and rendering the enemy vessel inoperable. This is usually done through a Follow-up Spread, a tried and true Chiss method of ship combat.
- Hit and Weave: The Sekzik Ambikya is most effective when on the move, attempting to outrun and out maneuver enemy ships to dodge incoming fire or stay in enemy blind zones where they can't fire at all.
- Go for the Throat: The Sekzik Ambikya is not a ship built by interstellar nations for ship to ship combat. Although capable of holding its own its defenses were purposefully kept 'okay' to provide funding and materials to what was seen as more important aspects of the ship for its ambush tactics. If outnumbered or stuck in prolongued combat the Sekzik Ambikya will be out of its element.
- Batting at Sand: Large compliments of fighters and bombers are the true bane of the Sekzik Ambikya, it lacks a substantial fighter compliment and its only effective weapon against swarms, the shock net, takes far too long to load and operate to be effective against more than a single fighter squadron.
The Sekzik Ambikya or "Unbridled Ambition" in the native language of the Özeminar is the joint work of Chiss and Özeminar engineering, a unique blend only found in The Boneyard. Those who were saved by The Vulture and live aboard The Boneyard have come to assist him and his Otkasi (clan) in most of their work, culminating in a joint effort to design and build a ship capable of dominating other salvager operations to continue The Vulture's attempt at monopolizing Csillan salvage after the planet's destruction.
