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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A sleek jetpack for Mandalorian characters
- Image Source: Usi_Cosplay
- Canon Link: Jetpack
- Permissions: N\A
- Primary Source: JT-12
- Manufacturer: Black Hand Collective™
- Affiliation: Mandalorians
- Market Status:
- Open-Market(Mandalorians only)
- Closed Market(Non-Mandalorians)
- Model: JT-13
- Modularity:
- Munitions
- Variable fuel
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Classification: Multipurpose Jetpack
- Weight: Light
- Resistances:
- Energy: High
- Kinetic: High
- Lightsabers: None
- EMP\Ion: Very High
- Extreme Heat: Low
- "Jump Mode" allowing user to flee vertically at incredible speed and heights
- "Flight Mode" allowing the user controlled and agile flight at high speed
- "Hover Mode" allowing the user steady descents and horizontal strafing
- In-built Inertial compensator
- Wireless Slave circuit
- Neural-Interface compatible
- In-built Personal energy shield
- Magna lock mounted
- Gauntlet mounted Gene-lock toggle
- Powerful rocket thruster
- Micronized auxiliary repulsorlift
- Twin fuel tanks
- approx. 1hr 30min
- Single interchangeable Warhead-launcher
- Compatible with Rangefinders
- High Speed, Low drag: The JT-13 was designed with Nite Owl commandos in mind, featuring a sleek design and Twin-fuel tanks fed into a single powerful rocket thruster, allowing them to intercept and give chase to
- Armored: Featuring a Duralloy armored housing, The JT-13 could several blasts from plasmatic or ballistic weaponry before risk of malfunction
- Shielding: While airborne, a subtle Personal Energy Shield would be cast around the user. It was low powered and difficult to see from afar, but offered some protection while exposed.
- Hard Gs: The JT-13 was equipped with an advanced Inertial dampener which was strong enough to allow for Starfighter-like maneuvers without crushing the user.
- Ion protected: The Nite Owls designed their equipment with Duraplast coated internals to circumvent the use of Ion and EMP weaponry by insurgents.
- Turn radius: With it's powerful rocket propulsion aided only by repulsor steering, Users were unable strafe horizontally in "Flight Mode".
- Fuel breach: Sufficient damage to one of the Twin fuel tanks could lead have led to a breach which would either begin to leak fuel, or in the case of plasmatic or incendiary contact, ignite the fuel itself. Such a breach could have disastrous consequences while using volatile fuels, or even detonate mounted warheads.
- Warhead detonation: Use of a mounted Warhead was ill-advised without a functioning energy shield, as damage to the warhead's exposed tip risked detonation.
- Wireless malfunction: The JT-13 featured a wireless receiver with a bronze-colored cap and duralloy casing. Whiled sturdy, damage to the thin armored casing of the antenna risked loss of signal to the user's wireless interface, leaving them unable to control their own jetpack.
- Thermal Signature: As with most rocket powered craft, The JT-13 produced a noticeable thermal signature that could be detected by scanners and targeting systems.
The JT-13 Multipurpose jetpack was a Mandalorian-designed personal propulsion system that was serviced throughout The Shadow Crusade by Nite Owl commandos, though later could be scavenged from ruins or hidden caches on Mandalore or seen in use by Nite Owl remnants in the Outer Rim Territories.
With their intended users in mind, the model was designed to be sleek, practical, and quick enough to chase Imperial-Mandalorian insurgents. To that end, they featured a single, powerful rocket with twin fuel tanks that had to be filled independently but fed the engine simultaneously. It also featured a pair of Micronized Repulsorlift jets that helped the user steer in atmospheric environments, hover or even strafe horizontally in battle. A drawback however was that these auxiliary thrusters could not be used in space and provided only limited adjustment at greater speeds, though they could provide a comfortable landing.
Because of this, Skilled users relied on certain techniques to out maneuver their foes in combat, such as cutting their engines and shifting their bodies to realign the rocket manually, or use their auxiliary thrusters to turn around before reignition. Such maneuvers were made possible by an Inertial Compensator system that had been downsized from it's original Starfighter mounted models. Because of this, Mandalorians equipped with this model could be quite agile over the battlefield, though they relied on skill rather than technology.
A secondary drawback encountered by users of the JT-13 was the thermal signatures produced by the rocket itself, which could be detected by some scanners and thermal optics. To circumvent this, The Nite Owls employed a technique that was dubbed a "Steel Rain" attack, whereby the users would drop from a vantage point or hidden craft and enter a freefall, waiting until the last possible moment to reignite their thrusters, at which point they would already be in range to begin the attack. The onboard Inertial compensator had the added benefit of decreasing their minimal drop height, as it would prevent gravity from injuring or immediately crushing the user when the rocket brought them to a violent stop.
