Jorga the Hutt
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Affiliation: Select customers, currently exclusive to Arceneau Trade Corporation.
Manufacturer: ICE: Iron Crown Enterprises; some components by Clan Rekali, Inc., Silk Holdings, Arakyd, and Koensayr.
Modularity: Limited; some of the specialized gear can be swapped out for an improved weapons loadout. (Such custom modifications would require their own submissions.)
Production: Limited
Material: Phrik hull plating and structural elements, durasteel hull, glasteel viewports, condensed-matter composite engine housing.
Classification: Armed Freighter
Length: 195 meters
Width: 85 meters
Height: 75 meters
Armament:
- 2 dual capital-scale Raptor ACES shieldcutters (turret)
- 2 capital-scale deck cannons (turret)
- 2 Arakyd Flex-Tube warhead launchers
- 4 antimissile octets
- 6 quad laser cannons (2 port, 2 starboard)
Hangar:
- Kal'ika class reconaissance probes or other small probes (1 squadron block of 24)
- OR 18 probes and 1 shuttle/personal transport
Special Features:
NAVIGATION
- Kol Mark IV navicomputer permits the vessel to chart its realspace location very quickly after an ambiguously targeted or uncontrolled reversion, and make long trips without reverting from hyperspace.
- Dha'karbakar hyperdrive prevents this vessel's hyperspace transits and reversions from appearing on hyperspace sensors, including early warning sensors and gemcutters.
- ICE T-2000 Outrider Otherdrive, linked to a quartet of minimal class-15 backup drives. The T-2000 unit damages whichever hyperdrive is engaged at the time of operation. Redundant backup drives permit multiple jumps, ideal in emergency or exploratory situations.
- Compatible with pilots who are outfitted with the iBorg Liberation Neural Interface.
- Ramscoop can be used for sampling and harvesting resource-rich areas of space.
- Tra'palon Active Mapping Array can aid in detecting and analyzing spacetime phenomena.
- Long-range, high-resolution Idellian Arrays or Speizoc Arms lifeform scanners, partially for detecting Charon bioships.
- Escape pods are the hyperspace-capable Ori'beskaryc 'Little Red' model from Clan Rekali, Inc.
- Stealth suite including stygium cloaking device, gravitic modulator, anti-magscan hull treatment, TibannaX engines, and thrust trace dampers. Vessel can jump and revert while stealthed.
- Many components made by Koensayr, legendary for durability.
- High-stability Silk Holdings countermeasures (chaff/flare) module with decoy projector and tractor shroud.
- Silk Holdings cap drain modules.
- Solid fuel/ration converter for long-term missions.
- It should also be noted that the Voidwalker is outfitted with all standard ship equipment as reasonable.
Maneuverability Rating: 7
Speed Rating: 7
Hyperdrive Class: 1 (from the Dha'karbakar package). Backup array class: 15.
Strengths:
- Nearly comprehensive stealth suite.
- Durable and resilient.
- Diverse countermeasures.
Weaknesses:
- Lightly armed, and cannot fire while cloaked.
- Expensive as feth.
- Unimpressive sublight speed
Description: The Voidwalker is Iron Crown's response to three distinct but linked events: the reverse engineering of an ICE Otherdrive by Aurora Industries; the sale of the resulting derivative technology under the patented brand name of Otherdrive; and Aurora's apparent attempt to corner the market on Otherspace transit, edging out ICE's dominance in that niche sector.
Suffice it to say, Iron Crown was not amused. Their lack of amusement was compounded by the fact that they considered the derivative product less suitable for survival in Charon territory, causing multiple system failures for vessels in which it was installed. ICE had always preferred to link the Otherdrive to a given transport vessel's backup hyperdrive, giving emergency options and minimizing repair/replacement costs, with no risk of other system failures. It was this strategy which ICE chose in order to further develop the utility of the original ICE T-2000 unit. The Voidwalker has no fewer than four low-power backup hyperdrives, allowing multiple uses of the T-2000. The resulting vessel can journey to hostile territory with an infinitely higher probability of survival than the competition.
The Voidwalker's creation was a gamble designed with a single target demographic in mind: Arceneau Trade Corporation, the largest company with Otherspace interests. That said, the Voidwalker is designed for a variety of high-value courier and prospecting operations, and is a perfectly serviceable multipurpose stealth transport in its own right. A medium freighter's worth of cargo capacity allows the Voidwalker to serve as a courier for high-value cargoes in secret circumstances. It will not, for example, give away the location of any given cache or station.
The Voidwalker was personally designed by Rel Connory, a.k.a. the Bard of the Hyperlanes, a noted shipwright.
The interior of the ship is utilitarian but classy, in keeping with the Voidwalker's serious function and equally serious price tag. Dark blue-gray metal predominates, with dull red accents and blue lighting. The corridors are less cramped than those of a small warship, but less expansive than those of most luxury ships. The ship's interior may be seen here. Crew, passenger, and trooper complement are comparable to those of a similarly-sized warship, or slightly less given the volume required by the stealth tech and the cargo hold.
Development Thread:
- PHRIK: Takeover of a phrik-producing planet. So far as I can determine, this thread was never cited for a tech sub. (21 posts.)
- PHRIK: Strip-mining of a phrik-producing planet. So far as I have been informed, this thread was never cited for a tech sub. (28 posts.)
- STYGIUM: Stygium mining and processing. I have never cited this thread for a tech sub. (30 posts.)
- STEALTH SUITE. (10 posts.)
Who Can Use This: Select customers, currently exclusive to Arceneau Trade Corporation.
Primary Source: Not derived from any Chaos submissions.
