Cass Gemini
Kraken Queen
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a pirate starbase and headquarters
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- Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
- Affiliation:
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Mobile operations starbase
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Starbase components
- Durasteel
- Alusteel
- Neuranium anti-scan lining
- Classification: Armed Illicit Space port
- Length: 5000m
- Width: 5000m
- Height: 1800m
- Armament: Low
- 48 medium turbolasers - 6 on top and 6 on bottom of each quarter
- 48 medium ion cannons - 6 on top and 6 on bottom of each quarter
- 48 light turbolasers - 6 on top and 6 on bottom of each quarter
- 48 light ion cannons - 6 on top and 6 on bottom of each quarter
- 96 automated laser cannon emplacements
- 16 proton torpedo launchers - 4 on each quarter
- Defenses: Very High
- Significant point defence systems
- Extensive armour plating
- Energy shields
- Particle shields
- Molecular shields
- Ion shields
- Missle warhead deactivators
- Hangar Space: Extreme (50)
- Hangar Allocations:
- Starfighters: 20 squadrons
- Support Craft: 5 squadrons
- Spare Capacity for docking other ships: 25 squadron equivalent as a mixture of different sized docking bays.
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Average
- Hyperdrive: yes
- 2 x class 12 hyperdrives
- This has all of the standard systems, features and equipment you would expect in an installation of this type.
- Secure armory containg a large number crates of ND40 Kase Blaster Repeater - utilised by starbase security staff
- Chemical power reactors - used if main reactor goes down.
- Extensive marketplace, business and entertainment services
- Fuel refinery
- GCT Holoterminal
- Hypermarket annihilation reactor - old and prone to radiation leaks
- Kagutsuchi Fire Control Grid
- Missile deactivation trasmitter
- Multiple small high security vaults - hired out to various parties
- NAKAIOMA Atmospheric Processor
- Network Intrusion Countermeasures
- Numerous tractor beams
- Public Food Synthesizers - many do not function and those that do make mistakes and typically only produce very basic and bland food.
- Solid fuel converter
- Tõkai Biohexacrypt Comm Encryption
- Vault built using Okiru-864 safes
- Huge capacity as space port - landing bay run around most of widest circumference and then 3 other rings of bays on to hemisphere of starbase. The top two are primarily for use by defense starfighters and support craft but the other bays can hold a variety if ships.
- Tough station - as it was initially a military station, it is designed to take a beating with this armour plating and layers of different shields.
- Security - One of the priorities when the starbase was taken over was security, both physical and digital. This means that users can rely on their personal and digital security whilst aboard.
- Slow hyperdrive - while not designed to be moved around and used as a weapon of war, the extremely slow hyperdrive prevents this as a tactic and makes relocating the starbase very time consuming.
- State of disrepair - the starbase has not been returned to its former glory and whilst massive efforts have been made on repairs, prioritising shields, life support and electronic systems other systems are unreliable. Artificial gravity has a tendency to play up and only approximately two thirds of the gun emplacements are ever considered operational at one time.
- A den of thieves - while personal security is important to the administrators, it is a big station filled with many undesirable elements of galactic society, if someone truly wants to harm you there are many ways for them to do so.
- Easy target - if ever engaged in combat, it is an easy target due to its massive bulk, and low Maneuverability, which is average, but only average for a 5km starbase.
- Fairly low armament - the numbers are seem reasonable, but spread around the full 360° of the 5km diameter station they are spread thinly. Enough to ward off light patrols and keep the pirates honest, but nothing compared to a proper military installation.
When Cass found this station it was a drifting wreck, having travelled for hundreds of years at sublight in deep space. It was battered, low in power and could quite rightfully have been torn apart for salvage, but Cass in her wisdom saw otherwise. She turned it into a hidden base of operations, it was hard to track down for pirate hunters and it continued to hurtle through space, its burnt out engines leaving no way of arresting its momentum.
In the four years since she found it, she has made incremental upgrades and repairs, 2 years ago she managed to fix the engines and take control over its position in space. Its initial position was not far from the Tortuga station. It was this repair that allowed her to finally invite investors in to begin setting up businesses and fund more expensive upgrades, such as bringing some of the weaponry back online, and installing several pieces of new hardware sourced from several suppliers. Cass has had to give up large shares of ownership but she could never run such a large station herself. She still retains a controlling percentage but other investors such as the Kraken Coalition and Hutt Republic now own shares and help shape the future of the station.
Cass wants this station as a neutral space where criminal empires can do business securely, similar to the Tortuga Station she is now fairly familiar with. The station is a long way from fully operational but is now home permanently or temporarily to thousands of different individuals from all over the station.
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