Directorate Officer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION[/FONT]
- Intent: To bring an updated version of the LL-1200 to the market
- Image Source: Sato Dragon concept art modified by yours truly
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: LL-1200
- Manufacturer: Lucerne Labs
- Affiliation: Silver Jedi, Directorate, Closed-Market
- Model: LL-1210 Light Freighter
- Production: Mass-Produced.
- Material: Durasteel frame, Trimantium hull plating, standard starship components
- Classification: Light Freighter
- Length: 24 meters
- Width: 12 meters
- Height: 6 meters.
- Armament: Average
- 2 Dorsal Twin Laser Cannon Turrets
- 1 Ventral Twin LLT-7 General Purpose Warhead Launcher Turret
- Defenses: High (Average with SLAM activated)
- Squadron Count: Very Low: 4
- Maneuverability Rating: Average (Low with SLAM activated)
- Speed Rating: High (Extreme with SLAM activated)
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Average: x1
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard Communications Array
- Standard Ion Engines
- Standard Life Support Systems
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Standard Sensor Array
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Two escape pods
- Can Enter Atmosphere and Land
- Carries 8 passengers & 100 metric tons of cargo or other equivalent
- Burner Deflector Shield
- Integrated Droid Brain Suite (Cybot ACE-6 Droid Brain and CD-14c Gunner Droid Brain)
- Sublight Acceleration Motor
- 1 Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret
- Impressive Speed: The LL-1210 Light Freighter is fairly fast for its size thanks to its oversized engine pods. This speed becomes even more impressive when the ship's shield energy is partially drained and transferred into a SLAM system, making it one of the quickest commonly available tramp freighters around at sublight speeds.
- Solo Style: This ship comes equipped with several droid brains to help operate the ship, allowing a single person to effectively run the ship if needed. Perfect for loners or training new spacers by allowing them to slowly take on new duties. The LL-1210 can technically fly by itself and operate its own weapons systems, though its automated systems rarely meet the performance level of experienced organics.
- Low Squadron Count: The LL-1210 wasn't particularly designed with compactness in mind, and the redesign actually added increased the ship's size.
- Ion-Vulnerable: Giving the ship automated features through its droid brains also means that ion damage can cause considerably more adverse effects on the vessel.
Taking lessons from its first and only light freighter introduced onto the civilian market, Lucerne Labs concluded that their use of subtractors to lessen its price had not had the intended effect. Rather, it appeared that the market was shifting towards more inherently advanced designs. With this in mind, the company took the base design of the earlier LL-1200 and put in several upgrades which they hoped would improve its appeal to the independent spacer crowd. The ship's SLAM system was upgraded to accept more power from the ship's shields, making an already fast craft even faster. The ship now came with a droid brain suite, allowing loner spacers to effectively operate the ship by themselves if needed. Lastly and perhaps most significantly, the ship was slightly enlarged in order to increase its internal volume, allowing a more comfortable and spacious interior that could also hold a few more metric tons of cargo and two more passengers than the original. It remains to be seen if these changes will be enough to draw more civilian customers towards Lucerne Labs, or if the company will primarily remain a defense contractor.
Technical Explanations
Flight Control Systems: The LL-1210 uses a typical CEC style cockpit centered in the middle of the craft, with controls very similar to that of the YT-series freighter, an intentional design move to expand the freighter's appeal by familiarity. This cockpit does have two seats for a pilot and co-pilot, but in practice, many users rely on the ship's droid brains to fulfill the co-pilot role: the ACE-6 is quite capable of not only handling co-pilot duties, but actually flying the ship if need be, while the Gunner droid brain can operate all weapons simultaneously. Some users like to call the ship to them in emergencies, and the LL-1210 can not only then fly to the user, but also fight through enemies to get to the user. The LL-1210 also sports several refinements from other Lucerne Labs craft, including an inertial compensator has been integrated into the ship's sensor suite. This allows the field to expand or contract automatically based on stimuli, whether it's a tumultous asteroid or a dovin basal, allowing the ships occupants and cargo onboard a smooth ride even in less than ideal flying conditions.
Sublight Engines: The LL-1210 has pair of large engine banks located on either side of the ship which flank the ship's loading ramp. Exceptionally large engines, they are largely unchanged from the original LL-1200 design except that the power systems have been altered to accept more power from the ship's shields when in use. The SLAM system thus is actually more powerful than on the original, and most users find the LL-1210's fast sublight speed to be its greatest attraction. Unfortunately, this high performance comes at the cost of shield strength, shield regeneration, and maneuverability.
Hyperdrive: The LL-1210 uses a pretty typical commercial x1 hyperdrive, providing it with reasonably good speed for a ship it's size. The ship's fuel tanks typically have enough fuel in the LL-1210 to move through at least several sectors before needing refueling.
Hull: The LL-1210 has a fairly sturdy hull, using classic Corellian-style framing backed by redundant reinforcement. Furthering this reinforce nature is the use of layers of Trimantium armor plating laid out to run perpendicularly from the layer on top and below it. Trimantium's unique material properties along with this layering configuration makes the ship fairly well-suited to withstanding high stress placed on the hull by hard maneuvers. This reinforced hull is notably stronger than many of its competitors (as reflected by the ship's defense rating).
Shields: The LL-1210 is equipped with a Burner Deflector Shield generator, which provides the ship with average shield strength for the ship's size. Its greatest asset is its ability to rapidly transfer power to the ship's engines.
Weapons: The LL-1210 in its stock form has the firepower a typical snubfighter. As with its predecessor, it has a pair of twin laser cannon turrets on its dorsal side on both the starboard and port sides of the vessel, right next to its escape pods. This turrets can be operated manually, or fired through the cockpit HUD or operated automatically by the ship's droid brain. The LL-1210 also has a ventral turret which is equipped with a pair of general purpose warhead launchers, which typically carry concussion missiles or proton torpedoes (though they can be adapted to use a wide variety of ordinance). Officially, however, these launchers are present to enable the ship to launch sensor decoys and weather probes. While the turret can be operated manually, most users prefer to control the weapons from the cockpit itself in order to save on manpower, and because this usage's performance isn't as affected by remote operation.
Countermeasures: The LL-1210 has a single Modular Auxiliary Systems Turret located on its ventral side just behind the cockpit. Officially, this is to provide the LL-1210 with a small tractor beam to recover objects in space and to help move cargo in and out of the ship. More illegitimate and combat-oriented users frequently are able to scrounge up the other modules though, and it's not uncommon to see this turret fitted with the sensor jamming device instead.
Passenger / Cargo Capacity: The LL-1210 is on the smaller size for a light freighter, and unsurprisingly thus carries few passengers and cargo than many of the classic CEC designs. Still, the redesign slightly increased both the cargo and passenger capacity. Each of the ship's eight passengers has their own, small and spartan cabin with a communal galley and a refresher suite. The ship's two cargo bays, located on starboard and port sides, each hold about 50 metric tons. Crash netting is commonly employed to help safeguard damage to the cargo, but the ship does come with a modular strap and fastening system to help alleviate this concern.
