Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
Intent: To modify Rave Merrill's personal Haran'uliik for her needs
Manufacturer: Mandal Hypernautics, modified by Iron Crown Productions
Model: Haran'uliik-class Light Frigate (Hell Beast-class in Galactic Basic)
Affiliation: Personal
Modularity: Modular Ammo; Takes half an hour to change ammo types
Production: Unique
Material:
Durasteel-Reinforced Vulcan Mounting
Glasteel Viewports
Alusteel-Reinforced Quadranium {Hull}
alchemical metal (superstructure)
Description:
Rave Merrill's personal ship, bought at auction with the proceeds of her kaggath against Circe Savan, the Lethewalker is a modified Haran'uliik-class frigate from Mandal Hypernautics. Its purpose is to oversee and facilitate arrangements for Rave's business interests, including Akure Executive Leatherworks, as well as provide transportation for the terentateks and other creatures killed by AEL's contractors.
Apart from Rave's need for an alchemy lab, and a secondary shield generator, the modifications are largely superficial. The primary armament remains the same, though she swapped point-defense emplacements for quad lasers manned by her alchemy students. The stock ship's balanced loadout of gunships, missile boats, starfighters and so forth has been replaced by a squadron of densely stacked Hammer-B Light Assault Craft. Passenger compartments have been stripped down from 380 to 80, with limited room set aside for 200 GT-F0 anti-boarding droids and 10 EA 9 escort droids. Some minor attachments fill the conserved passenger space: A force cylinder provides adaptive docking, while a Dedicated Energy Receptor allows the Lethewalker to analyze transmissions to and from one specific target.
In a minor refinement from the original, the small particle shield apertures in front of the muzzles of the fixed deck guns and Vulcan cannon are now covered by small, dedicated ray shields. Though they lack the resilience of full-power capital ship shields, they only have to deal with pinpoint starfighter strikes or massed turbolaser fire -- and, if employed properly, this ship will never face massed turbolaser fire.
At the Battle of Chalcedon, the Lethewalker was tasked to disable several escaping slaver craft. One of them entered a decaying orbit; lacking support, the Lethewalker's only option was to attempt to use its two tractor beams and powerful engines to pull the far larger ship out of the gravity well, at the risk of ripping the tractor beam housing right off the hull. Rave decided to apply alchemy to the tractor beam housing and the superstructure elements that held it in place. Over the course of the battle, and for some time afterward, she applied alchemy to the entire superstructure. The hull plating remains alusteel-reinforced quadranium; the ship's bones, however, are effectively indestructible, greatly increasing the Lethewalker's collision resistance and overall durability.
Stock Description:
The Haran'uliik-class Light Frigate was a recent development from Mandal Hypernautics. Designed as a rapid response ship, the Haran'uliik is intended to intercept and destroy targets that are far too fast for larger 'ships of the line' to engage, yet too large for smaller fighter wings to risk engaging. The ship is designed to incorporate numerous large and powerful weapons into the forward sections of the ship, to take advantage of the high speed and agility of the ship as well as make the most use of the limited number of weapons capable of fitting on such a small frigate. Otherwise to large for such a small ship, the Vulcan Mass-Driver Flak Cannon that adorns this vessel was built into the frame of the ship itself and protrudes from the prow of the vessel. Incapable of movement, the ship itself must rotate to bring the Vulcan cannon to bear on its enemies. Likewise, five large Deck Cannons were built into the hull of the ship itself and face the forward.
Classification: Frigate
Role: Support Ship, Heavy Interceptor, Light Carrier
Height: 77 Meters
Width: 132 Meters
Length: 220 Meters
Power Core Generator/Reactor: Solar Ionization Reactor
Hyperdrive Rating: 1.5
Minimum Crew: 58
Optimal Crew: 280
Armaments: Support (10 Capital, 40 Defense)
- (1x) Vulcan Mass-Driver Flak Cannon (30 Defense)
- (5x) Deck Cannon (10 Capital)
- (10x) Quad Laser Cannon (10 Defense) (4 dorsal, 4 ventral, 1 prow, 1 aft)
Hangar:
- (12x) Hammer-B Light Assault Craft
- (2x) Niathal Shuttle
Non-Combative Attachments:
- Encrypted HoloNet Transceiver
- Standard Communications Array
- Redundant Deflector Shielding
- Standard Life Support
- Standard Navigational Systems
- Tractor Beam (2)
- Enhanced Combat Sensors
- Escape Pods
- Standard Targeting Systems
- Dedicated Energy Receptor
- Alchemy Lab
- Force Cylinder
- Standard Medical Bay
- Localized Small Energy Shields (Bow Railgun Aperture Coverage)
Passenger Capacity: 80 + 200 GT-F0 anti-boarding droids +10 EA 9 battle droids
Cargo Capacity: 2,200 Tons
Consumables: 4 Months
Sublight Speed and Maneuverability: 4
