Mandalorian Mystic
The Eyrie
Ruus’ika Habitation Sphere
Between the mountain and the sea
I've made a happy landing;
And here a peace has come to me
That passeth understanding;
A shining faith and purity
Beyond demanding.
I've made a happy landing;
And here a peace has come to me
That passeth understanding;
A shining faith and purity
Beyond demanding.
-Eyrie, Robert William Service
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To update the Ruus’ika Habitation Sphere / Clan Dem'adas Winter Training Sphere to 5.0 and to provide Clan Kryze / Kryze Industries a unique location to operate from. Mini planets. What’s not to love?
- Image Source: Windows10Wall
- Canon Link: Habitation Sphere/Worldcraft
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source:
Ruus’ika Habitation Sphere - Clan Dem'adas Winter Training Sphere
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Clan Rekali, with contributions from Mandal Hypernautics (purchase thread), modified by Kryze Incorporated
- Model: Ruus’ika Habitation Sphere
- Affiliation: Mandalorian Empire
- Production: Unique
- Material: Havod, dirt, rock, water, snow, ice, Mandalorian Fauna, Mandalorian Flora
- Classification: Habitation Sphere/Worldcraft (Miniature)
- Length: 4000 meters.
- Width: 4000 meters
- Height: 4000 meters
- Armament: Average
Turbolasers - Ion Cannon
- Hypervelocity Railguns
- Proton Torpedo Launchers
[*]Defenses: Extreme
- Superb Shielding
- Inner hull below upper 'planetary' level is heavily armoured (Havod)
- Anti-Fighter Quad-lasers
- Anti-missile octets
[*]Hangar: Extreme: 34
[*]Maneuverability Rating: Very Low
[*]Speed Rating: Very Low
[*]Hyperdrive Class: Slow (4)
STANDARD FEATURES
- Military Communications Array
- Military Deflector Shield Generator
- Military Life Support Systems
- Military Navigation Systems
- Military Repulsorlift Engines
- Military Brig
- Military Escape Pods
- Military Sensor Array
- Tractor Beam Generators
- Kar’ara’novor shield generator x2 (polar regions)
- ArmaTech Aegis Shield Transfer Array
- All capital scale defences and weapons are hidden / retractable below the 'planetary' surface.
- Triple-redundant atmospheric fields and anti-radiation measures
- Emergency bunkers
- Triple-redundant artificial gravity and inertial compensator technology
- Substantial dirt
- Climate option - Mountainous
- Redundant cap drains, ion shielding, and power supplies, centered on protecting the atmosphere fields, anti-radiation fields, gravity and inertial compensators
- Crystal Gravfield Trap
- Tra’palon Active Mapping Array
- Non-mass hyperwave transceiver with cross-channel hyperspatial radiation emission/detection functionality - in concert with Kar'tayl Independent Sensor Platforms
- Full-scale Capital Shipyard facilities accessible via southern pole.
Strengths:
Home to a substantial amount of people and wildlife
Outstanding shields, and the ability to donate them to properly equipped defenders in extremis.
Though climate is set upon manufacture, it can be adjusted if necessary.
Has a much shallower gravity well than a planet, massively reducing surface-to-orbit transit costs.
It’s tough to sneak up on a Ruus’ika.
- Slower than mud.
- Though the interior is well armoured, the exterior surface is much like that of a planet. If shields go down, that’s serious vulnerability and a lot of casulties. For all it's armaments, this isn't for taking into combat, it's a home for a nomad Clan associated with a major faction.
Nicknamed 'The Eyrie', the Ruus'ika Habitation Sphere commissioned for Clan Kryze maintains an Temperate Mountain climate; complete with crags, forests, trickling streams and stunning views from the surface at day or night. Comprised of 50.27 square KM of terrain ranging from thick pine forests, sheer cliffs,mountain tops, deep crags, and numerous imported creatures, the Eyrie was built to replicate the conditions of the now-devestated (and volcanic) mountain homelands of Clan Kryze and to act as a long term lifeboat for those species endangered on Mandalore's surface. Or, to provide that lifeboat if Mandalore should be devestated again. Mandalore and the Mando'ade will survive.
The primary imported species that gives it it's nickname are the gigantic Night Owls, the mountain-dwelling pre-sentient mega-fauna that shared their old home - and now their new home - with Clan Kryze, each of these normally has a massive range, but a small family grouping has been convinced to settled in the provided surface area of the Habitation Sphere.
The two poles provide the two highest 'mountain' peaks - with the northern pole concealing significant armament and the shield generator beneath it, and the southern pole concealing the shield generator and a 500 meter wide, sealable entrance into the space dock which the Clan use for the majority of their manufacturing.
The Clan members inhabit the surface itself - which is dotted with small settlements and homes as well as two small high-rise city complexes.
The sphere is lit by a artifical fusion 'sun' that rotates with a cycle of one standard Mandalorian day - the shields are polarized so that during the 'night' external sunlight is blocked from the surface, in an emergency, additional artifical lighting can be used or the sphere can be put in an appropriate orbit to provide lifegiving light.
The outermost portion of the sphere is made up of thirty-five decks, with gravity oriented inward, feet facing the core. Each of these decks is roughly 50 square kilometres. Of these decks, 25 have been combined into multi-deck arrangements of varying high (minimum two decks) and used to save samples and varities of as much of Mandalore's biosphere as possible, essentially forming the galaxies largest lifeboat / zoo. There are no examples of Mandalore's megafauna, as keeping them in decks of this size would be inhumane and potentially quite destructive.
The remaining decks are interspersed between the other decks and provide housing, storage and support for the sphere surface and the lifeboat decks. It is quite possible to wander these decks for months or more and see a myriad of species and environments, without doubling back on yourself.
A similar amount of space is contained in the inner decks, which are stacked, feet facing the south pole. Half of these decks have been hollowed out to create a moderately large shipyard space (capable of constructing a Star Destroyer at most - larger vessels or multiple vessels must be constructed outside of the sphere) and the remaining half form the command, construction, engineering and workshop decks for the shipyard as well as the armoury for the Clan mercenaries and emergency deployment positions for Mandalorian Empire troops should the sphere be called to war - which is not it's intent at all, but it's best to be prepared.
