Enyo Typhos
Control
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Transport ship for elite troops.
Image Source: Here.
Canon Link: N/A.
Permissions: Permission for all Alderaan Engineering gear and other subs made by Laira Darkhold's writer here and here.
Primary Source: Some features inspired by the Katarn Class Boarding Shuttle.
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Archangel Research and Design
Affiliation: Archangel Research and Design
Model: Infiltration Vessel 1a
Production: Semi-Unique
Material: Stygium Crystals, Molecularly Bonded Armour, Reinforced Duraplast, standard starship components, Turadium frame, Durasteel hull, Reflec, Agrinium.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Shuttle. Troop Transport. Boarding Craft.
Length: 25 metres.
Width: 10 metres.
Height: 10 metres.
Armament: Low
- 1x dual quad laser cannon
- 1x ground buzzer blaster cannon
- 2x Coma gas boarding harpoons
- Shroud
- ECM
- Anti-Missile Octet
- AE-CM1 Dampener Chaff
- Cap Drains, Flares & De-Ioniser Modules
- Molecularly Bonded Armour
- AR-0B Damage Reduction Armor Component
Maneuverability Rating: Very High
Speed Rating: Very High
Hyperdrive Class: Average: 1
STANDARD FEATURES
- With the exception of lacking shielding, the shuttle has been equipped with all standard features. These include:
- Encrypted Communications Suite
- Soliton Antenna
- HoloTrace Device
- ANy-20 scan-mode transceiver
- Advanced Sensors and Targeting Suite.
- Holotrace Device Network
- Compact Manoeuvring Jets
- Inertial Compensator
- Longe Range Scanners
- Artificial Gravity Generator
- Able to transport 50 passengers.
- Ghostwave Transmitter.
- Unity Processing Matrix. It essentially acts as a powerful droid brain for the shuttle.
- Anti-Ion Emission Tracers
- Ion Scrambler
- Whisperthrust Engine
- Hyperspace Tracker
- Programmable Paint
- Signature Modulator
- Signature Modulator
- Baffler
- Energy Dampeners
- Static Jammers
- Thermal Dissipators
- Phantom Short-Range Sensor Jammer
- Thermal Dissipators
- Fullspectrum Transceiver
- Thrust Thrace Damper
- GAM
- HIMS
- AE-PU1 Rotational Engines
- AE-HD1 Specter-class Hyperdrive
- Photonic Emitter
- Individual Field Disruptor
- Reflec Coating
- Sensor Decoy Launcher (3 decoys)
- Plasma torches
- Stygium Cloaking Device.
- Magnetic docking clamp
- Comprehensive stealth suite consisting of a Stygium cloaking device as well as other devices such as a gravitic modulator, Reflec coating and thrust thrace dampers make the ship almost undetectable. It also features a number of secondary stealth systems that make it easier to bypass high security and slip through blockades.
- A signature modulator and a holographic shell can allow it to disguise itself as another ship.
- Ideal infiltration ship. Its speed, defences and and manoeuvrability are a cut or two above average, allowing it to deploy its troop contingent quickly and evade danger. Use of Ghostwave transmitters ensures communications' security. It is equipped to carry out boarding actions. The Unity Processing Matrix acts as a powerful droid brain, resulting in things such as better power distribution, detection and evasion of dangers and calculation of hyperspace jumps.
- The Stygium Stealth Array is powerful, but Stygium-cloaked vessels need to decloak to fire. Thus, any time the ship fires at someone, it has to decloak briefly. Chatting on comms, and scanning will also cause detection even if the cloak is active. Moreover, the Stygium stealth array is power-hungry, so it cannot be active all the time.
- The holographic shell is not without drawbacks. The systems memory only allows a single disguise, which has to be pre-programmed and canot be altered in the middle of a mission. Moreover, the disguise is only useful at short range. Close investigation or touching will unravel the illusion.
- Poorly armed. Lacking heavy armaments, the vessel fares poorly equipped in slug fests. It is supposed to get a unit of commandos in and out of a target zone, be it planetary or in space. Bottom line, its offensive capabilities are poor.
- Weakspots: Engine exhaust, weapon barrels, and sensor arrays have to have openings, and therefore a shot up the pipe would be devastating and without protection due to lack of shields. Such shots are rather difficult, even for a good pilot, but still a potential threat.
The concept of the shuttle is a straightforward one. It has been optimised for speed, manoeuvrability, defence and, above all, stealth. While Archangel has significant military forces, it relies on surprise and secrecy rather than brute firepower. The design of the shuttle is in keeping with this. The vessel has been equipped with a powerful Stygium stealth array, a gravitic modulator, a thrust thrace damper and a myriad of secondary stealth systems that make it difficult to detect the ship even when the cloaking device is not active, such as sensor-baffling Refled coating.
It has been equipped with a 4x-Phantom sensor jammer, a compact, high-output active sensor jamming system. The Phantom incorporates a DERP, capable of absorbing and blocking incoming long-range sensor pings. Programmable Paint, a false ID transponder, and a sensor modulator help the vessel take on different identities if needed.With these features, it is supposed to deploy a teams of elite soldiers into enemy territory without being detected. Its speed and stealthiness also make it good for quick getaways, landing planetside to evacuate commandos or spies once their mission is complete or they have to make a quick exit after being thwarted.
In addition, the shuttle can be used to carry out boarding actions, enabling unit of soldiers to infiltrate an enemy ship or space station. To this end it utilises technology common to boarding craft, such as the Katarn-Class. A field disruptor allows it to bypass deflector shields, while a magnetic docking clamp lets it latch onto the hull of a ship or station. Powerful plasma torches mounted aorund the airlock open up a hole, which the airlock will seal itself around.
Obviously the field disruptor is also useful for planetary insertions. As a tradeoff, the shuttle has weak armaments. Its armour is tough, but it is meant for infiltration, not direct combat and it lacks deflectors shields. It is supposed to sneakily insert the droids or other soldiers that are hitching a ride on it, not punch through enemy defences or get involved in slugfests. Archangel has incorporated a Unity Processing Matrix into the shuttle. It basically acts as a powerful, high-end droid brain. Each transport is capable of deploying a platoon-sized unit. The interior of the shuttle is utilitarian, which is in line with general Archangel aesthetics. The crew has everything it needs, but there are no creature comforts. But then it is meant for soldiers, not the upper crust of society. Powerful communications systems allow the crew to remain in contact with their superiors without having to worry about interception.
The official name of the shuttle is Infiltration Vessel 1a. This is boring, so Enyo's posse calls it the Blackbird Infiltration Ship. Enyo strongly disapproves. Talsir Vanaeth, Enyo's former teacher, served as a consultant for the project. She has a background in terrorism as well as starship design and engineering, so she was perfectly qualified for the role. Because the shuttle has a myriad of expensive doodads, it only has an extremely limited production run. Thus it is not available for purchase on the market and is only given to select Archangel operatives. Many of Archangel's operatirves are droids. This means that the craft is able to strip away many of the features that organic crews require. The atmosphere inside the craft is kept normally to prevent damage to the organic exteriors of HRDs, but otherwise life support is minimal. However, a proper life support system can be installed without issue before embarking on a mission if the shuttle is supposed to be used by an organic crew, such as Enyo's clone siblings.
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