Approved Starship VesperWorks Deep Void Trawler

[VesperWorks]

VESPERWORKS DEEP VOID TRAWLER​

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent:
  To create a specialized deep-space salvage and mining vessel used by Serina Calis and VesperWorks.
• Image Source:
  MidJourney
• Canon Link:
  N/A
• Permissions:
  N/A
• Primary Source:
  N/A

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Manufacturer:
  VesperWorks – Polis Massa Engineering Complex
• Affiliation:
  
  • Serina Calis
  • The Lady of Deceit
  • VesperWorks
  • Atramentum
  • Project VESPER
• Market Status:
  Closed-Market
• Model:
  "Drift-Class" Deep Void Trawler
• Production:
  Limited
• Material:
  
  • Reinforced Durasteel Frame
  • Thermal-Insulated Duranium Plating
  • Nullite Fiber Shielding (protecting the hidden AI core)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

• Classification:
  Salvage / Resource Extraction / Exploration
• Length: 600 meters
• Width: 280 meters
• Height: 210 meters
• Armament: Low
  
  • 4 x Point Defense Laser Turrets
  • 10 x Mining Laser
  • 2 x Ion Cannons (anti-piracy)
• Defenses: Average
  
  • Standard Shield System
  • Ablative Hull Segments
  • Secondary Life Support Redundancy Web
• Hangar Space: 2 Squadrons
  
  • Starfighters: 0
  • Support Craft: 2 (resource shuttles, micro-mining rigs, and salvage drones)
• Maneuverability Rating: Low
• Speed Rating: Low
• Hyperdrive: Yes (Class 1.5; Class 10 Backup)

STANDARD FEATURES

• Deep-Space Life Support Systems
• Reinforced Cargo Vaults
• Tractor Beam Arrays
• Atmospheric Processing Units
• External Docking Rigs
• Long-Range Communications
• Basic Internal Droid Workforce (Maintenance & Retrieval)

ADVANCED SYSTEMS

• Gravitic Ore-Suspension Array – Allows the secure transportation of raw asteroid cores or salvaged station fragments without structural disintegration.
• Void Echo Mapper (VEM) – An advanced passive scanning system designed to chart uninhabited space, detect mineral-rich fields, and identify derelicts from hyperspace scars.
• Salvage Harpoons – Can secure and break apart large derelict hulls or station remnants while preserving valuable internals.
• Adaptive Shield Matrix – Reconfigures shield orientation based on proximity radiation and solar particle flux; critical for unknown system survival.
• Blacklight Subcore (Classified) – A covert, embedded AI node based on the ARACHNEA framework, hidden deep within the ship's operational systems. Officially, the Trawler is run by automated droid logic and human oversight, but in truth, the Blacklight Subcore handles critical systems routing, resource consumption logs, crew scheduling, and internal maintenance diagnostics—all while presenting false telemetry to appear inefficient or understaffed when needed.
  
  Unauthorized access is structurally impossible without tripping false diagnostic failures designed to appear mundane, one would need extensive time and to know the schematics of the ship inside out to achieve this. Only Serina Calis and encrypted VesperWorks protocols can activate its higher functions.

STRENGTHS

• Deep-Space Autonomy: Designed for long-term, independent operation in unknown or collapsed hyperlane sectors.
• High Salvage Yield: Equipped to recover derelicts, mine ancient stations, or extract value from planetary rings or systems.
• Non-Threatening Profile: Unlike warships, its non-combative presence can allow access to diplomatically sensitive or restricted salvage zones.
• Integrated Intelligence Node: The onboard VesperLink Subnode enhances scanning, processing, and data contribution to the greater fleet network.
• Covert Intelligence Node: Unbeknownst to most, the Trawler houses a hidden AI subcore. While it does not directly control ship functions, it monitors, records, and subtly nudges system processes, granting Serina near real-time telemetry, behavior tracking, and long-term influence over operations aboard.
• Fraudulent Efficiency Mask: The hidden AI manages core operations far more efficiently than official reports suggest, enabling Serina to claim inflated staffing and support costs while the Blacklight subcore handles workloads quietly and flawlessly.

WEAKNESSES

• Minimal Combat Capabilities: Cannot survive direct engagement with even light warships without escort.
• Low Speed and Agility: Vulnerable to pirate ambushes or hostile reclamation forces if not pre-emptively protected.
• High Maintenance: Requires frequent recalibration of its mining harpoons and gravitic containment units, limiting rapid redeployment.
• Specialized Maintenance: Requires trained VesperWorks operatives to remain operational.
• AI Tether Risk: Subnode may relay data back to Polis Massa—either a feature or a flaw, depending on perspective. This tether, if discovered, can be tracked.
• Internal Compromise Risk: If the hidden subcore were discovered, it would represent a major breach of trust with the partner—potentially interpreted as espionage or sedition.

DESCRIPTION

Born from the black laboratories and modular shipyards of VesperWorks, the Deep Void Trawler was never meant to grace parade fleets or dominate battle lines. It was conceived as an answer to a broken galaxy—a vessel that could extract value from ruin and navigate the fractured stars left behind after the Sundering Dawn.

These trawlers are slow, unlovely things: latticework hulls bolted around vast internal cargo holds, their bellies full of ore, forgotten tech, and ancient power cells. They operate in zones where maps are myths and light itself dies. There, they thrive. Equipped with harpoons and gravitic catch-nets, they fish for wreckage left by millennia of war.

Unseen, embedded within the ship's own routine code architecture, is a Blacklight Subcore—an echo of ARACHNEA's calculating mind. It does not act. It observes. And in doing so, it learns—transmitting fragments of insight, vulnerability, and opportunity back to its mistress in the shadows of Polis Massa. Even amid the raw industry of salvage and reclamation, the Trawler remains loyal to Serina.

Beneath bulkhead and protocol, the hidden Blacklight Subcore silently operates, calculates, and deceives—sustaining her illusion of inflated effort, enabling her theft of funds, and sending only curated truths back to it's so called, 'command'. In the Sith Empire, corruption is not a sin. It is a skill. And in that skill, Serina is an artist.

 

[Delsin Shaw]

VesperWorks

Approved