Pirate Prince
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a bomber for the Shi'ido.
- Image Source: Adrian Virlan
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Cognition throne | Neural interface device
- Manufacturer: Shi'ido
- Affiliation: Lao-mon Planetary Defense Forces | Anyone who can reasonably acquire it.
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material: Nenuphar, specialized components
- Classification: Airspeeder
- Role: Bomber
- Size: Small
- Weight: Light
- Armaments: High
- Defenses: Low
- Maneuverability Rating: High
- Speed Rating: High
- Propulsion: Repulsorlift
- Minimum Crew: 1
- Optimal Crew: 2
- Passenger Capacity: None
- Cargo Capacity: Low
- Self-repairing nenuphar biotech
- Neural interface gel
- Hellcaster cannon (1)
- Concussion missile (2)
- Thermal detonators
- Proton grenades
- Kinetic Biotech: Nenuphar is a living organism prized for its ability to rapidly self-repair and for its flexibility. It can repair minor damage within thirty minutes, while more extensive damage may take hours or days to repair - but unless it is completely destroyed, deprived of fuel, or otherwise compromised, it can bounce back no matter how serious the damage is. When used as a building material for vehicles, the rate of injury or death in a collision is lowered substantially.
- Neural Interface: Though it can usually only be used by Shi'ido or by specially trained telepaths, the bomber features a unique neural interface which can be used to directly operate the vehicle. This greatly improves reaction times.
- It's a Bomber: Swift and easy to maneuver, the bomber deftly darts through the skies, raining hellfire upon its targets.
- Vulnerable: What it has in speed, the bomber lacks in defense. The vehicle is made almost entirely out of nenuphar and is notorious for being flimsy compared to other bombers. It will break apart after just a couple of direct hits. You also definitely don't want to fly too close to the tree line.
- Special Fuel: Nenuphar sections must be maintained with a special "fuel", which is basically a type of synthetic fertilizer, as well as provided with water on a regular basis in order to function optimally.
- Drying: Anything which removes moisture, such as being left in the desert on a hot day, exposure to extreme cold, or "vacuum drying", can seriously weaken the structural integrity of nenuphar, the material this shuttle is made of.
- Winter's Bane: Exposure to extreme cold can cause nenuphar to go dormant, hardening and no longer responding to stimuli. Freezing it solid will cause it to become brittle and shatter easily.
Named after the andesite species, these bombers are more commonly referred to by Basic-speakers as "dragonfly bombers" due to their insectoid appearance. They are quick, easy to pilot, easy to make, cheap and expendable, thus making them one of the most common vehicles used by the Shi'ido rebel army.
Somewhat similar to Vong biotechnology, nenuphar is by nature a living organism, though non-sentient and easy to influence. A typical bomber is operated by the pilot placing their hands (or similar limbs) in a transparent neural interface gel, which tracks the electrical impulses in the hands as they move, thus manipulating the vessel.
