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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Sub a ship
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Permissions: Blanket permission for Kal's stuff here. Permission for all subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here. Blanket permission for Valiens' stuff here.
Primary Source: N/A
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Firemane Industries
Affiliation: Firemane Industries
Market Status: Closed-Market
Model: FM-SC1a
Production: Semi-Unique
Material: Durasteel, Farium, Isotope-5, Quadranium, Stygium, Nightshadow, Transparisteel, Turadium, Molecularly Bonded Armour, electronics and standard starship components.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Espionage/Reconnaissance Ship
Length: 150 metres
Width: 30 metres
Height: 40 metres
Armament: Low
- Quad laser cannons
- Variable warhead launchers
- A couple turret mount ion cannons
- Cap Drains and De-Ionizer Module
- Molecularly Bonded Armour
- Deflector Shield
- Anti-Missile Octet
- ECM Suite
- AE-CM1 Dampener Chaff
Hangar Allocations:
Starfighters: 0 squadrons
Support Craft: 0 squadrons
Single Craft Hangar: No
Maneuverability Rating: High | Average (SLAM)
Speed Rating: Very High | Extreme (SLAM)
Hyperdrive: 1.0 (Primary) | 8.0 (Back-Up)
STANDARD FEATURES
- All standard features. The ship comes fully equipped with the whole standard array of shields, sensors, systems and components that are normally associated with vessels of this size and class. These also include, among others, the following:
- Nutrimax Dispenser for Culinary Efficiency
- Hypersleep Casket (Optional)
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracer
- Enlightenment Quantum Communicators Stage 2 and/or Enlightenment Quantum Communicators Stage 1
- Fixed-Signature Tracker
- Communicator Monitor
- Lifeform Scanners
- Stargaze Engine
- Grab-safety
- GAM
- CGT
- Holonet Relay
- Holotrace Device
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Hyperwave Transceiver
- Full-Spectrum Transceiver
- Echo Pulse
- Decoder
- Bio-hexacrypt, Pyrowalls, Rapid Repetition Defense Measure programming.
- GPO-12 'Ironmaze' Threat-Prevention Suite
- Ion-Scrambler
- Nav Computer Route Astrogation Bypass
- Mag-Field Generator
- NEEDLE
- Gemcutter
- Com-Scan
- Socketguard
- Nightshadow coating
- Sensor Mask
- HIMS
- TibannaX Engines
- Sensor Net
- Sensor Scramblers
- Signal Jammers
- Signature Modulator
- Solid Fuel Converter
- Spectral Diffusers
- Stygium Cloaking Device
- Subspace Transceiver
- Thrust Trace Damper
- Thermal Dissipators
- Photon Absorbers
- Energy Dampeners
- Stealth ship. Equipped with a Stygium cloaking device. It also features a variety of gadgets that allow it to keep a low profile even when the cloaking device is not active. Gravitic modulator prevents detection by mass-detectors/gravitic sensors, such as Crystal Gravfield Traps and thrust trace dampers keeps enemies from detecting or tracking the vessel's drive emissions with any degree of accuracy. The hull has been coated in Nightshadow to make detection more difficult, and TibannaX has been used to mask the drive trail.
- Very fast and manoeuvrable.
- Use of Enlightenment quantum communicators assures communications security. Messages sent via Enlightenment are instantaneous and unblockable. They cannot be blocked, jammed, intercepted, suppressed or stopped by other means.
- Features an HIMS to help against interdiction fields.
- Poorly armed. Not made for actual battles. It's not there to fight even other corvettes in a pitched battle.
- Usage of the SLAM reducies the ship's agility. Moreover, protracted and repeated use can place an undue strain on the ship's engines.
- No hangar capacity.
- Cloak or Shields: With its stygium cloak active, the Ether-Watcher cannot use its deflector shield system and must decloak in order to activate it.
The dramatically named Ether-Watcher Class Surveillance Corvette was designed for the purpose of espionage, surveillance and long-range reconnaissance far away from friendly harbours. The design priorities necessitated by this were speed, stealth and communications security. As such, the vessel features powerful engines and a sublight acceleration motor, which allows it to substantially boost its own speed at the cost of reduced agility. It is wise to use this feature with care, as it can place undue strain on the engines. Moreover, it possesses a comprehensive stealth and sensory suite.
Not only does this allow the vessel and its crew to hide from detection and gather intelligence from behind enemy lines without drawing attention to themselves because they can simply passively listen in, the use of Enlightenment quantum communicators also guarantees communications security because the messages transmitted by such a device cannot be blocked or intercepted. However, an Enlightenment communicator can only transmit a message to another Enlightenment is has been paired with, which means it cannot change destinations on the fly or connect elsewhere. In addition, the vessel has a potent remote slicing unit.
Unlike with many stealth vessels, the purpose of the ship is not to facilitate infiltration by special forces, but intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance. Owing to its role as a reconnaissance vessel, the Ether-Watcher is poorly armed. Its main armaments are supposed to fend off starfighters and the like, but it is not there to fight even other corvettes in a pitched fight. Rather it is expected to use its speed and stealth capabilities to evade danger.
Owing to all the technology that has been crammed into the vessel, things are rather cramped aboard. Enlightenment communicators take up quite a bit of space. As a consequence, the crew of an Ether-Watcher will have to manage without a hangar. To improve efficiency, the designers have introduced nutrimax dispensers and hypersleep caskets. The first optimises culinary efficiency, the other the efficiency of sleep.
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