OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a pirate ship for Deacon's Outer Rim cover.
- Image Source: Skynet3020's Gallery on Renderosity
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: Davaab-class Escort Frigate
- Manufacturer: MandalMotors | Meridian Dynamics | Silk Holdings
- Affiliation: The Red Blade (Deacon)
- Model: Modified Davaab-class Escort Frigate
- Production: Unique
- Material:
Mandalorian Steel - Doonium
- Glassteel
- Various Starship Components
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Fast Attack Frigate
- Length: 480 Meters
- Width: 100 Meters (at widest point)
- Height: 60 Meters
- Armament: High
Heavy Ion Cannon Batteries - Turbolaser Batteries
- Point Defense Lasers
- Concussion Missile Tubes
- Stun Cannons
- Rapid Triple Barrel Turbolaser Turrets
- Boarding Javelins
- Tractor Beam Harpoons
[*]Defenses: Moderate
- Mandalorian Steel Armor Plating
- Deflector Shields
- Chaff
- Dampener Aerosol Missiles
- Concealed Surface-Defense Blaster Cannons
[*]Hangar: Average: 2 Squadrons
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Low
[*]Speed Rating: High
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Fast: 1
STANDARD FEATURES
- Standard Navigation Computers
- Standard Starship Safety Systems
- Med Bays
- Hangar
- Boarding Pods
- Tractor Beams
- Other Standard Military Grade Ship Systems
- Compartmentalized Design
- Modular Interior
- Deep-Space Multifrequency Scanning Antennas
- Advanced Sensor Array
- Advanced Battle Computers
- Smuggling Compartments
- False Telesponder
- Electronic Countermeasures Package
- Signal Augmented Sensor Jammer
- Force Cylinder
- Tractor Shroud
- Cap Drain Module
- Defensive Decoy Module
- Hunter Killer: Bristling with a deadly array of weapons, particularly ion emplacements, this Davaab-class was modified to seek out and cripple or disable targets. Also features upgrades to its sublight engines to allow it a better chance of closing in on smaller prey.
- Prepare to Be Boarded: Equipped with both boarding javelins and tractor beam harpoons, the javelins are filled with coma gas and designed to penetrate thick outer hulls to release their payload, while harpoons are fired at the subdued target and it is reeled in via tractor beam. Then, the boarding pods.
- Vulnerable Amidships: While armored, the long spar between the ship's command center, which sat just before the ship's main engines, and its hangar is an incredible vulnerable spot. Destroyed, it threatens to vent vast sections of the ship, even with the advanced compartmentalization of Mandalorian ships.
- Exposed Command Bridge: The base Davaab design is meant to provide the frigate's senior crew with an expansive view of their surroundings at the expense of safe placement.
The Rancor Claw is a modified Davaab-class escort frigate and recent acquisition of Desmond Darksword for use as a base of operations and cover identity. Keeping to the fringes of civilized space, the ship makes no efforts to physically disguise what it is, featuring a large blazing claw stenciled across its spar and covered in bloody bones. Yet because of its false telesponder it can pass under a variety of fake monikers as long as its mark isn't within visual range.
Crewed by Clan Rook warriors now loyal to the Red Blade, the Claw's interior is a disciplinary nightmare, featuring a central galley with a firepit roaring at all hours and heavy grog consumption at much the same rate. There have been several rumored close escapes from the Claw which were only made possible because the crew was too drunk to aim their grappling mags properly.
