Walak Tu
Character
Type 2C/Lambda »Surveyor«
Image Source: Made it myself (using autodesk inventor and paint.net)
Affiliation: Open-Market, but no longer sold by the manufacturer. All ships are at least second or third hand purchases.
Image Source: Made it myself (using autodesk inventor and paint.net)
Manufacturer: Huppla Pasa Tisc Shipwrights Collective, Geonosis.
Model: Type 2C/Lambda »Surveyor« astroid and salvage survey craft.
Modularity: No.
Production: Today only Limited numbers remain in varying condition.
Material: Laminasteel-weave for the frame, hafniumcarbide/durasteel ablatorplates over an aluminium hull. The interior makes use of bronze, aluminium and polymers.
Classification: Personal Transport (survey craft)
Length: 63.00 m
Width: 10.50 m (14.50 m with the lasercannons all the way to the sides)
Height: 12.02 m
Armament:
2 medium Lasercannons, these cannot fire directly forward.
1 Astroid sampling laser. This was never meant as a weapon, but used a regular heavy laser cannon to cut down production costs. A coaxial tractor beam collects a small sample from the evaporated material for analysis. It can fire foreward and to the sides, but the targeting computer has a hard time tracking any object that accelerates, since astroids normally don’t do that. Desperate owners have been known to turn it against attackers.
Overall rating: 1 (all weapons are starfighter caliber)
Defenses:
20 Short range tractor beam emitters (for pushing projectiles or debris out of the way)
3 Arrays of ray shields (lower front, upper front, back)
Ablativ plating
Overall Rating: 2, 3 if the tractor arrays are still functioning (they are know to break if looked at for to long ...)
Hangar: None. It is possible to carefully strap a single stargighter, no taller than 4.9 meters, to the hull between the prongs, using strapbelts and tractor beams. It is not advised, prohibits use of the mining laser and reduces performance considerably depending on the mass of the fighter.
Special Features: Geological scanners and a small lab for analysing samples. The systems are not automated, the user has to know a good deal about geology/chemistry to get results more interesting than e.g. Astroid contains iron, silicium, oxygen, trace elements.
Maneuverability Rating: 5
Speed Rating: 5
Hyperdrive Class: 3, some have an emergency backup of 18.
Strengths:
-High engine gimbal range (whole engine rotates) means it will turn around easily
Weaknesses:
-High engine gimbal range means the engine cannot be at full power while turning hard or it will rip itself loose from the ship.
-No longer in production, spare parts may be hard to come by.
-Ancient computer systems will have problems with newer parts.
-Defensive tractor beam emitters are known to overheat and break down.
-Outdated geological sensors require a lot more work than modern ones
Description:
While technically classified as a corvette, she could also be called a large freighter with light armament and good protection. Quite hardy, can take a punch from a spacerock. But in the end none escape the gnawing teeth of time ...
Crew: Minimum 1, optimal 3, max 6, with bunks shared by different shifts 12.
Cargo: 60 m³ pressurised, 30 m³ unpressurised. Additional crates can be strapped to the hull.
Attitude control systems: 6 frictionless gyros, thrust vectoring.
Reaction control system: 42 hydrazine/dinitrogen tetroxide bipropellant microthrusters.
Repulsion systems: 3 rows of geonosian repulsor lifts in the lower prong.
Engine: Spherical high-vector ion-impellerdrive.
Powerplant: Open cycle helium-3 fusion with stirling type power converters, two emergency generators.
Artificial gravity: Grav plates on both decks.
Heat removal: Radiators in the upper layers of the hull.
Airlocks: 2 regular sized, 4 one-man airlocks that are used for access to unpressurised crawlspace or in an emergency.
Escape pods: 4 three-man pods
The 2C/Lambda Surveyor first went into production around 400 BBY. It is equipped with four pods, the first is a mining laser, the second and third offer livingspace and controls. The fourth is the gimbaling engine. The ship was marketed towards asteroid miners, offering good protection and the ability to evade almost every rock it could not deflect with its tractor beams. It has a geological survey sensor suit and cartography computer, allowing prospectors to map out ore deposits in astroid belts. Specialised mining ships would then move in. After sales declined the company tried reinvigorating them by offering pods modified for non geonosians but production was shut down around 260 BBY nethertheless, as export alone could not justify its continuation. Today most of the ships use the sensors to scan debris fields for salvagable components and astroids for ores. Though layouts vary, nearly all 2Cs lack any windows which would be weak points in the hull. Instead a multitude of cameras and lenses with glassfiber cables feed visual information into the pilots VR-Helmet. Export models commonly feature modifications of the interior for non geonosians. All ships came with a SoroSuub FA-4 pilot droid, but few still have it.
Development Thread: If necessary.
Intent: A ship for Walak. People looking to do astroid mining or salvage in space might also be interested, as well as writers who like to describe their chars tinkering with old tech.
Who Can Use This: Anyone, but most ships that are sold theese days require substantial repairs.
