Kal
Whispers
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
As made abundantly clear with the development of the HAUL-R Bulk Freighter, the Combined Interstellar Shipping and Logistics Organisation's finest number crunchers agree that paying off pirates is preferable to being violently robbed by them. Not all pirates can be bribed, however - and the act of paying ransoms is inherently unprofitable. Pay too many too well and one might fund one's own financial ruin.
That simply would not do. Thus, the MAUL-R, a heavily-armed autonomous corvette.
This terror of the lawless can be found escorting high-value shipments, hunting down pirates, and on occasion cleansing Shadowports and other hives of scum and villainy with atomic fire. To employ such extreme measures is always tragic, but the absence of law enforcement can force the hand of even the most scrupulously law-abiding legal person. Sometimes, there is only one recourse for rising expenses - the death of one's foes.
- Intent: Optimise anti-piracy operations.
- Image Source: Defensive Starship by Dmitrii Ustinov
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: HAUL-R Bulk Freighter
- Manufacturer: Sunhawk Starworks
- Affiliation: CISLO Security Forces
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: MAUL-R Destroyer Drone
- Production: Limited
- Material: Titanium-Hexalloy
- Classification: Heavy Combat Drone
- Length: 127 metres
- Width: 23.6 metres
- Height: 34 metres
- Armament: Very High
- [1] Superheavy Turbolaser
- [3] Anti-Capital Torpedo Tubes
- Proton, Nuclear, Ion Pulse, etc.
- Can be replaced w/ Starhammers.
- [6] GCA-12 "Stormwarden" CIWS Turrets
- Defences: Average
- Hangar Space: Average | N/A
- Manoeuvrability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: Class 1.01
- MAUL-Rs are outfitted with all the features and facilities one would expect from automated vessels of their size and purpose.
- MAUL-Rs are able to reroute power to their engines to achieve bursts of increased forward mobility at the expense of other systems and can make use of a Subdrive and microjumps for rapid in-system travel. Their navigational computers are supplemented by Navbrains.
- Ever-watchful 'sensor-orbs' afford the MAUL-R near-unparalleled situational awareness. All but the cloaked beware!
- A combination of holographic emitters (a 'shell') and ECM allows MAUL-Rs to masquerade as different ships.
- This is most commonly used to blend in with convoys of HAUL-Rs or other unarmed freighters.
- A Pseudointerdictor allows MAUL-Rs to lock down or at the very least inconvenience unprepared foes.
- Maul-Rs are equipped with Hyperanchors; they often use them to hide near major trade routes.
- Deathdealer: MAUL-Rs punch noticeably above their weight class, doubly so when facing the oft ill-maintained vessels used by pirates.
- Volatile Core: MAUL-Rs are powered by unstable reactor cores - great for suicidal ramming actions, less so being shot by skilled gunners.
- Fried Circuit: MAUL-Rs are entirely automated, with neither crew nor docking ports - if ionised beyond rebooting, the ships are done for.
As made abundantly clear with the development of the HAUL-R Bulk Freighter, the Combined Interstellar Shipping and Logistics Organisation's finest number crunchers agree that paying off pirates is preferable to being violently robbed by them. Not all pirates can be bribed, however - and the act of paying ransoms is inherently unprofitable. Pay too many too well and one might fund one's own financial ruin.
That simply would not do. Thus, the MAUL-R, a heavily-armed autonomous corvette.
This terror of the lawless can be found escorting high-value shipments, hunting down pirates, and on occasion cleansing Shadowports and other hives of scum and villainy with atomic fire. To employ such extreme measures is always tragic, but the absence of law enforcement can force the hand of even the most scrupulously law-abiding legal person. Sometimes, there is only one recourse for rising expenses - the death of one's foes.
23/09/2022:
- Summary: Minor revisions and moderate additions.
- Changes:
- Miscellaneous typos.
- Linked 'legal person' for those unfamiliar with legal terminology.
- Changed the name from '... Hunter-Killer Drone' to '... Destroyer Drone'.
- Added Starhammers to the armaments field; modularity, not addition.
- Added Hyperanchors to Special Features.
- Added holographic projectors+ to Special Features.
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