OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit a piece of canon technology that can function as a low tech and thematic alternative to drop pods.
- Image Source: Fantasy Flight Games
- Canon Link: Savior anti-grav chute
- Primary Source: /
- Manufacturer: Corellian Technologies
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Model: Savior-series Anti-Gravity Chute
- Modularity: No.
Production: Mass-Produced
- Network Telemetry Uplink
- Manual Guidance Override
- Tactical Harness
- Rapid Deployment: Save for a drop pod, there are few methods of combat insertion more kinetic than an atmospheric grav chute jump. The Savior is ideal for lightning raids and stealth insertions.
- Planned Obsolescence: Anti-gravity chutes are essentially single use jetpacks. The Savior is designed to be secure, but discarded quickly after landing. This allows boosters that would normally be too bulky for mobile use to deliver soldiers safely from extreme heights.
- Slowfall: Although much quicker than conventional landings, the grav chute's controlled burns reduce a soldier's falling speed to the point where they are vulnerable to surface fire. Its repulsors are luminescent enough to flicker on short range sensors shortly before landing.
- Limited Glide: A trooper maintains some control over their ability to dodge obstacles immediately below their position, but the Savior was not designed with long range glides in mind. This model of grav chute is meant for a mostly vertical descent.
- Hazardous Equipment Malfunction: Its a rare occurrence, but as with all technology sometimes Savior chutes break down and the boosters don't fire. If this happens during a jump, it is obviously very very bad news for the trooper.
Anti-gravity chutes have been around for thousands of years as a safety measure for airspeeder and starfighter pilots who for whatever reason need to bail out in a planet's atmosphere, but it was the Corellians who first thought to use them as a weapon of war. Still a common sight in Confederation space, the Galactic Alliance popularized their use on a military industrial scale. Going so far as to develop entire 'mobile infantry' units which specialized in quick strikes, the Savior was a common device in the GAAF.
The Alliance is mostly gone now, but resistance forces and the Underground have adopted the use of grav chutes to aid in guerilla operations and force reconnaissance. In situations where drop pods would draw too much notice, high altitude insertion from an airspeeder or military transport is the next best thing.
