The Monster
Monster
- Intent: To create a personal vessel for
Jahzra Rocvard
- Image Source: Here
- Canon Link: None
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: None
- Manufacturer: Freebirds Industries
- Affiliation:
Jahzra Rocvard
- Model: N/A
- Production: Unique
- Material: Phrik-A Hull frame, Duranium hull plating, FM-001/FM-002 protective coats, sensor components, Svalinn shield generator, Deimos PDRFLCs, avionics, various pieces of mechanical and electrical equipment to supply various workbenches, sensor scrambling panels for concealed compartments, Duraplast-E for shielding of various components for silent running mode
- Classification: Light Freighter
- Length: 50 meters
- Width: Hull Width is 27 meters, with two 10 meter 'wings' which contain the engines and external wings - 47 meters total
- Height: 15 Meters without landing gear, 16 with landing gear deployed
- Armament: Average -
- 2 Forward Face turreted Deimos PDRFLCs
- 1 Rear Facing turreted Deimos PDRFLCs
- Defenses: High -
- Chaff-Flare Launchers
- Svalinn Class Shield Generator
- Deployable light repeating blaster for security
- Squadron Count: None: 1
- Maneuverability Rating: Extreme -
- 2 FIE-2 Engines
- 2 FIE-1 Engines
- Engines are mounted into a swivel mount allowing for complete thrust vectoring alongside maneuvering thrusters
- Speed Rating: Extreme -
- See Maneuverability
- Hyperdrive: Yes
- Hyperdrive Class: 1.0
- Expansive cargo hold with the capacity to hold two swoop bikes alongside a decent amount of cargo.
- Cargo hold also contains a workstation with tools/equipment to maintain, repair and otherwise modify most items that the crew will bring along with them.
- Crew quarters has space for up to four, with a private "captain's cabin" for the owner of the ship being directly below the cockpit, with its own refresher and bed with footlocker storage. Remainder of the crew or passengers have stacked beds with footlockers that pull out from underneath them.
- Standard universal control scheme for all of the different piloting stations, allowing for members of any species to man, operate, or otherwise pilot whatever station they are on, from the weapons stations for the side mounted turrets, or the rear turret itself, or the pilot/copilot seat.
- Full medical station aboard the vessel that is attached to one of the bunks allowing for persons on board to be treated for anything short of exotic poisons, serious wounds/major injuries, limb replacements, and other serious medical procedures requiring a proper med bay and medical staff.
- Chaff and flare countermeasures allow for ship to have some more active defenses against missiles/torpedoes without actively having to attempt to shoot down said ordinance.
- Deployable light repeating blaster to ward off ground personnel attempting to board or otherwise steal the ship. Requires a gunner in the cockpit of the vessel.
- Sensor diffusing plates inside the ship allow for smuggling aboard the vessel, with several locations around the ship offering compartments large enough to hide a person, or several large pieces of cargo. In the main cargo hold there is a deployable walls that also contain these plates that make the hold look slightly smaller from the inside to allow the concealment of more cargo, weapons or also people.
- Luft Class Life Support System allows for the ship to on the fly take a measure of the organic beings on board and create an optimized atmosphere to accommodate all life forms aboard the vessel, and can even change this atmosphere for each compartment of the vessel. These changes can be done on the fly and even done to specifications of the captain of the vessel or those with authorized access to the ship.
- Deimos Rapid Fire Point Defense Laser Cannons aboard the ship give it excellent defensive coverage, with two forward facing turrets giving front to left and front to right coverage in most directions with a single turret facing the rear to provide 360 degree coverage against star fighters.
- FIE-1 and FIE-2 Engines are swivel mounted offering even more extreme thrust vectoring from the engines. This provides the ship with extreme levels of maneuverability and speed, allowing it to pull maneuvers normally only associated with average and light fighter craft. This alongside the FIE series engine's extreme thrust to weight ratio allows for this craft to have exceptional speed.
- Svalinn class shield generator gives the vessel a premium shield allowing for the ship to focus its shields in a particular direction and make use of advanced shapes in atmosphere to promote speed and maneuverability.
- Silent running mode of the vessel allows it to run a faux-stealth mode where the ship will look like space debris as all emissions, heat signatures and other sensor identifying markers on the vessel will immediately cease. And while the ship can run its engines in this mode, it will retain all of the heat generated, meaning that running engines at extremely low power if at all is recommended.
- Excellent smuggling vessel: This ship is fast, runs naturally very low emission, and when silent running is engaged, is extremely difficult to tell apart from other space debris. This makes this vessel almost perfect for smuggling items. This on top of everything else included in the vessel, with its sensor diffusing compartments and even hiding away a relatively small section of its cargo hold, makes it the ideal vessel for smuggling.
- Excellent defensive coverages: This ship has 360 degrees coverage with its Deimos laser cannons, alongside chaff and flare dispensers and an Svalinn Shield generator. This gives the ship plenty of options when it comes under attack, making it great for trying to run blockades, escaping enemy pursuit, and otherwise giving anyone trying to catch this vessel an extremely hard time in doing so.
- Limited offensive options: This ship's weapon systems are mounted in such a way as they provide great defensive firing arcs. This gives the ship coverage against other ships attempting to attack the vessel, but with the way the weapon systems are oriented, and spread out, this gives the ship limited options when going on the offense. This is because it can't slave the forward cannons to the front to essentially use them as offensive weapons. This combined with the fact that you can't get more than a single cannon firing in a specific direction at any target, also causes it to be limited more on the offense.
- Silent Running mode: This mode forces most of the ship's systems to shut down or go into a low power state to prevent detection. That means that all of the turrets, chaff/flare launchers, radar and shield generator will be offline, meaning if someone spots you, you're a sitting duck. And I don't really need to emphasize how bad of a situation that is if you get caught in that.
The Starchaser began as a private request from a pilot Jahzra Rocvard. At first it was a fairly simple request. A fast light freighter with exceptional speed and maneuverability. This ship would include all of the latest and greatest technologies available from Freebirds Industries, from their artificial metals such as Phrik-A, to technologies and weapon systems like Svalinn shield generators and Deimos Laser Cannons. This ship would be top of the line, and would be made even better via the use of swivel mounts for the engines. This allows the ship to pull insane maneuvers and move extremely fast allowing it to be an extremely high performance vessel. This allows for this vessel to outrun almost any other ship out there, even with a full cargo hold. This ship would be further modified by Jahzra Rocvard when she acquired the vessel with the hidden compartments, and even the ability to hide a portion of it's cargo hold. And finally the coup de grace was the ability for this vessel to go into a silent running mode. This ship can turn off all of its unnecessary systems, allowing it to maintain its last course and speed floating through space looking like debris. This allows for the ship to appear on other scanners as nothing more than regular debris. Which enables this ship to be able play dead, and even prevent people from scanning their hold once silent running is engaged. And while you 'could' run the engines in this mode, such is highly unadvised without coming out of this mode as this will cause the internal temperatures to rise extremely quickly. All in all, this is a top of the line light freighter, and while she doesn't have the offensive capabilities some other vessels might have, she's the fastest ship you'll find, and with very few peers when it comes to speed and maneuverability.
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