Directorate Officer
Intent: To provide Lucerne Labs and its customers with a rugged military speeder bike
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Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
Model: Voritor-class Speeder Bike
Affiliation: Silver Jedi, Directorate, Closed Market
Modularity: ammunition for flechette launcher
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Phrik frame, standard speeder bike components
Classification: Speeder Bike
Role: Recon/Fast Attack
Size: Average
Weight: Average
Minimum Crew: 1
Optimal Crew: 1
Propulsion: Repulsorlift
Speed: High
Maneuverability: Average
Armament: Very Low
1 retractable, swivel-mounted Hailstorm Flechette Launcher
Defenses: Low
Passenger Capacity: 1
Cargo Capacity: None
Particle Shield: The Voritor sports a light-duty particle shield in its forward arc that protects the rider and bike from from wind, sand, rain, and other common atmospheric debris. This generator can also nudge the craft away from glancing collisions. It does not usually provide any direct defense from most common weapons in combat.
Enhanced Phrik Frame: As a medium framed bike, the Voritor doesn't appear to be particularly durable or light at a quick glance, but this appearances the bike's cast Phrik frame, which both makes it lightweight and fairly durable. While this lightness improves the bike's speed and maneuverability, this also makes the bike much more sensitive to poor handling from injured or inexperienced riders.
Hailstorm Flechette Launcher: Rather than an blaster cannon, the Voritor carries a flechette launcher in underslung, 180 degree rotating mount with a forward arc. This was primarily done to save on power usage in the speeder, but it also has the added benefit of requesting less precise aiming from the user, which in turn is partially offset by its limited ammunition capability. This mount can be retracted to improve aerodynamics.
HUD Link: The Voritor can be link to its user's HUD through a direct datalink or wirelessly, allowing users to keep quick track of their surroundings and the vehicle's performance without having to look down at the bike's control panel. This allows the user to aim and fire the bike's Hailstorm flechette launcher.
Sensor Jammer: The Voritor carries a slightly modernized Interference Box mounted into the vehicle's forward dash that can be flipped on with a switch. This blankets the immediate area around the bike with disruptive sensor noise to help prevent weapon's locks on the bike and can jam many nearby personal-scale communication devices. Unfortunately, this is a double-blind device, meaning the bike's own sensors and/or communications devices are equally affected by its activation.
Fast: The Voritor is an exceptionally fast speeder bike, almost reaching the speeds 750 km/h, putting almost with the speed range of dedicated racer swoops. This speed is the result of a high output engine and exceptionally light frame.
Fragile: As with many speeder bikes, the Voritor is fairly fragile, and anything more than a few blaster hits is often enough to make the vehicle inoperable.
The Voritor Speeder Bike is a military design loosely based on the Mobquet Overracer design. Lucerne Labs rebuilt that bike to more military purposes by redesigning the frame to take advantage of their ability to synthesize Phrik, adding more microthrusters, adding an underslung flechette launcher, and updating several other avionic systems for more rugged and military use. Using a rotating flechette launcher differs from the typical practice of using a light blaster, but the lack of power required by the launcher meant that more energy could be dedicated to the bike's high-output engine. Additionally, the ability to carry not only anti-infantry but anti-vehicle munitions can make the Voritor [SIZE=9pt]more dangerous to other vehicles compared to many other speeder bikes. Unfortunately, these advantages come at the cost of lower ammunition capacity, and riders need to be more conservative with using their bike's ammunition compared to the almost infinite ammunition of a blaster-based weapons. One of the other unusual improvements to the bike was the addition of a light particle shield to provide the rider with protection from the elements and the addition of a datalink from the bike to the user's HUD if they were wearing battle armor. While fairly minor improvements in their own right, they improve the user's ability to focus on combat and the situation around them rather just focusing on driving the bike itself. Taking a cue from the military version of the 74-Z speeder bike, the [/SIZE]Voritor[SIZE=9pt] also incorporates a sensor jammer, an older Interference Box, due to the relative low cost and compactness. While not an exceptionally powerful device, it does make pin-point targeting of the craft difficult and also makes the bike ideal for sudden raids on enemy positions. Unsurprisingly, most Voritor Speeder Bikes see service in direct combat units, such as in repulsorlift companies or cavalry units. A smaller number see service in recon roles because they are exceptionally fast bikes, though they lack the good maneuverability and exceptional sensors preferred by many scouts.[/SIZE]