Saga Runfridh
Craftswoman
The Pactolus
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a custom ship to serve as home base, workshop and eventually store front for Saga Runfridh
- Image Source: qi-art
- Canon Link: Inspiration Ship
- Primary Source: Symphony of the Seas, Leechar Clas Star Yacht
- Manufacturer: Saga Runfridh
- Model: The Pactolus
- Affiliation: Saga Runfridh
- Production: Unique
- Material: Titanium hull, Solarium Glasteel Viewports
- Classification: Yacht
- Length: 362m
- Width: 65.7m
- Height: 72.5m
- Armament: Very Low
- Defenses: Moderate
- Hangar: ~1 Squadrons
- Maneuverability Rating: High, Moderate when going full speed
- Speed Rating: High, Very High in straight lines
- Hyperdrive Class: 1
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STANDARD FEATURES:
Weapons:
Point Defence Cannons
-Present largely because Saga felt an entirely unarmed ship was just asking to be attacked but didn't see the point in trying to turn her home and workshop in a weapon of war.
Other:
Inertial Compensator x2
-An absolute necessity to combat the forces brought to bear by the Meyer Drive, The second compensator is largely back-up, though it will often kick in when the Drive is running flat out to pick up the slack and prevent burn out.
Advanced Holonet Suite
-Equipped with the latest in consoles and technology, Saga spends a fair amount of time here researching things or writing code. Any planet she goes to she is likely to see if they've any new upgrades.
Courier Communications Scanner
-It pays to be in the know, and if people are using lazy encryption, they deserve to have their messages cracked
Tractor Beam
-Theoretically useful for helping to move any damaged friendly ships to somewhere they can get repairs. In Sagas mind more present for nabbing asteroids that might have metals with interesting properties.
Holotheatre
-Definitely not used to watch tawdry romances. Ever. Why would you even think that?
Pool
-For testing aquatic gear. And sometimes swimming. There's also a sauna, hot tub and hydro spa, because we are very fancy.
Garden
- Located within the solarium glasteel dome atop the Pactolus, this is a truly breathtaking slice of Eden on an otherwise fairly sterile ship. That said, Saga honestly doesn't like dirt. She does however enjoy fresh food. She leaves the gardening to the droids.
Passenger Suites
-Largely unoccupied, Saga has assigned a few to some of her favourite droids. The Captains suite being the most extravagant is of course Sagas.
Zero-G Relaxation Chamber
-For when you've been thinking too hard and need to take the weight of your shoulders, and everywhere else, for a little while
Exercise Room
-Although it's well equipped with exercise machines, Saga is rarely here. She had a brief period when she thought she'd get proper fit, and then came to her senses, remembering how much she hated being sweaty and how much she liked a good steak.
Workshop
-This is a space of never-ending chaos, with droids constantly trying to impose some sort of order on Sagas random distribution of tools, half-finished projects, lumps of metal and little bits of wire all over the place. At some point a Stintaril got on board and keeps making nests in the workshop and chewing on important things. It is not a pet or a mascot. It is a disgusting but extremely hard to get rid of vermin, to be exceptionally clear.
Storage
-A very large percentage of the Pactolus is simply open space, used for storage when Saga has larger projects she's working on or for materials for future projects.
ADVANCED FEATURES:
Defences:
VT Focus Array
-As the Pactolus is not intended in any way shape or form as a vessel of war, the hope is that should it find itself attacked, that attack is statistically likely to come from a single opportunistic vessel, as such, Saga felt it best to employ shielding which could be focused as needed. When under attack from multiple ships this can be an issue as shield focus in one area draws power and protection from the rest.
Cap Drain Module x2
-This was added as Saga is particularly paranoid about EMP attacks 'messing up her work'. It should be noted however, that this have been installed in such a manner that should an EMP go off within the ship, only the singular room involved would be affected. Not that Saga would ever make a mistake like that. Of course not.
Aegis SH13LD
- While generally leery about using anyone elses security (as then they know exactly how to break through it) Saga acknowledges that if she can slice, so can others, and until she works up her own program, this is the best she can do to fend off casual cyber attacks.
Mithril Security Software
-A redundant cyber security package in the event that one of the makers of her primary package should decide to hack her ship. In theory, they would be detected before making their way through this program giving Saga time to enact a digital counterattack. In practise, likely utterly unnecessary.
Engines:
Clan Heart Reactor x4
-One reactor is dedicated to the engines, one to the shields, one to all other usual ship duties and the fourth is theoretically a back-up, but quite often used as a power source for crafting or other experiments.
The Meyer Drive
-Saga is not a patient woman. When she wants to go somewhere she wants to get there with speed. In the Pactolus, she also uses speed as a defense. While the ship is moderately defended, it has next to no offensive capabilities, so its best bet in a scrap is to escape. The Meyer Drive is one of the current best drives on the open market to accomplish this with.
Other:
Saotome Gravimetric Sensor
-Saga felt that if one of ones ships main strengths is that it goes VERY fast for its size, but only in a straight line, installing tech that would help skip you out of the way of sudden gravity fields was an extremely good idea for anyone who didn't want to wind up a particle thin smear on some unforgiving surface.
Integrated Dampner Baffles
-Chosen more for their slight increase in manoeuvrability than for any concern over being stealthy. When one is flying the equivalent of a cruise ship through space a bit of manouverabilty is never a bad idea.
ECHO Sterinull Suite x4
In the event that she injures herself Saga would prefer not to die in space because her ship has no medical capabilities thank you very much.
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Strengths:- Extravagant
- Fast
Weaknesses:
- VERY weakly armed
- Droid Crew
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Description:
The Pactolus is essential a cruise ship in space, albeit one travelled on largely by one arrogant Crafter and her droid retinue rather than wealthy tourists. While about twenty-five percent of it is quite luxurious, the remainder is made for work. This ship is both home and workshop for Saga, and while she's not made much of note yet, she intends to change that. Once she does, she of course has to have somewhere suitably impressive to meet her clientele, and have a planet based location is just so limiting..
There are probably errors, I've likely missed things, I've done my best, please be gentle, it's my first sub xD
