Domino
Warden of the Ice
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a ship to deliver boarding troops into hostile situations.
- Image Source: Expanse Wiki
- Canon Link: Cannon Boarding Pods
- Permissions: Agents of Chaos
- Primary Source: Cannon Boarding Pods
- Manufacturer: Agents of Chaos
- Affiliation: Agents of Chaos
- Model: Salvage Delivery Vehicle
- Production: Minor (Large groups of characters. (IE: A Single Major Faction)
- Material: Durasteel, Ship components
- Classification: Boarding Pods
- Length: 7m
- Width: 7m
- Height: 5m
- Armament: Very Low, one laser cannon fore, one aft.
- Defenses: Low
- Squadron Count: Extreme: 24
- Maneuverability Rating: Average
- Speed Rating: Very High
- Hyperdrive: No
- Hyperdrive Class: N/A
- Engines, life-support, inertia dampeners, braking thrusters, cutting torches. light shields, standard scanner array.
STRENGTHS
- Horde Attack: The large squadron count combined with the small nature of the craft mean that a vast number can be launched at a time to overwhelm a ship's defenses.
- Rocket Jockeys: Speed and a small cross-section are these things best defense along with hoping that defenders are distracted with the others.
A dark and sparse interior packed with Jawas, embedded in the 'ceiling' above the door is a pressor/tractor module surrounded by equipment webbing. Two gunners and a pilot are the crew though they're expected to board the target along with their passengers, either to raid or defend the boarding pod. Enshrouded by ECM and surrounded by other pods also projecting ECM, most fighters will have to rely on visual targeting of the dark and fast-moving pods, pods that are all too happy to shoot back and add to the cloud of battle salvage. Still in the event of a hit or a blow from stray flak and derbies each pod also carries a light shield. Pods are also pre-depressurized in case of hull breach and so salvage teams can exit directly onto a salvage target or stash their loot safely away into a pod.
The pilot has an area/target readout and if a target is too heavily defended can opt to open the retractable door outside the target's defensive gun/missile envelope and launch boarders via EVA using the pressor field as a slingshot to send individuals or groups at a target in a 'free fall.' When landed the same system can be used to pull heavy salvage or gear aboard.
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