Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
Affiliation: Personal
Manufacturer: CEC, modified by Iron Crown, some components by Silk
Model: MCX-1150
Modularity: Heavily modified; further modifications would be difficult.
Production: Unique
Material: Durasteel hull, quadanium frame, glasteel viewports
Classification: Freighter, personal transport
Length: 38.6m
Height: 9.2m
Width: 14.7m
Armament:
- 2 quad laser cannon turrets (can be manned, controlled by droid brains, or routed through cockpit controls at a loss of performance).
- 2 forward capital-scale ion cannons (cockpit control).
- 2 forward flex-tube warhead launchers, 10 warheads each (cockpit control).
Hangar: Generally carries 2 Silk-5 speeder bikes.
Special Features:
- False telesponder (alternate IDs include Alignment Dysfunction, Vergere's Edge, Lumiya's Creed, Broken Throne, Sin's Comeuppance, Pride of O'reen, and Remember Morellia).
- Forward lounge capable of serving as a dedicated meditation chamber, with integrated wearable element as discussed below.
- Standard Silk Holdings smuggler countermeasures package: chaff/flare, crybaby, cap drains, tractor shroud dispenser.
- Very-short-range emergency anti-stealth defensive sensor: QQ-4L-Y354 Angel Eye module.
- Emergency consumables/backup fuel supply via QQ-1453-DR1 Solid Fuel/Ration Converter: produces edible sludge, water, and backup power.
- Subspace and hyperspace transponders with encryption suite.
- Improved shields, military-grade.
Maneuverability Rating: 6
Speed Rating: 5
Hyperdrive Class: 2
Strengths:
- Good at passing unnoticed: common civilian design, no restricted/heavy weapons, etc.
- Good shields. Situationally enhanced durability; see below.
- Good portfolio of countermeasures.
- 'Hear me baby, hold together': extensive modifications make for occasional conflicts, glitches, hard reboots and very minor electrical fires.
- Significantly reduced cargo lift capacity (can fit 80% of stock version's cargo).
- Lacks the stock version's J9 remote command system.
- Very limited weapons.
- Civilian-scale hull durability.
- Aft blind spot.
Description: The Vagrant's Pride is Ashin Varanin's personal starship since her retirement. It is an unobtrusive transport capable of getting into and out of just about anything thanks to a variety of smuggler-style countermeasures, if used properly. The Pride operates with a crew of one to three, and has the lift capacity of a light freighter. It has no passenger space unless someone wants to share a bunk or set up a cot in the cargo hold. Two lateral airlocks are found in the stern, and a main boarding ramp descends from the middle of the cargo hold. The vessel runs from a pair of low-capacity solar ionization reactors, and can draw emergency power from a solid fuel/ration converter.
As a last-ditch defense, the forward lounge contains -- in a hidden and nullification-resin-lined compartment -- an integrated Sith amulet in the form of a crown. The crown functions solely as a high-capacity Talisman of Concentration. It is directly attuned to Ashin, and specifically to her highly specialized skillset: Force protection and shielding. The crown allows her to expand her protective aegis to the hull of the Vagrant's Pride in a manner comparable to a Force shield, Force Weapon, etc., much as Adi Gallia was capable of doing for a personal ship. The following limitations apply:
- As with any Talisman of Concentration, the crown will cause immense weakness after its period of use, interfering with cognition and Force use.
- In a starship combat situation, Ashin's talisman-enhanced Force shielding is comparable in strength to a light corvette's redundant shielding; it does not confer invincibility. This represents its maximum strength against starship weapons, achievable with pain-free meditation and time to prepare. Limiting factors to Ashin's state of mind will also limit the crown's effectiveness.
- The use of the crown requires Ashin to physically be in the lounge, doing nothing else. She cannot use it when she flies the ship alone, and must trust the entirety of the ship's operation to someone else. The crown cannot be used or sensed while Ashin is not wearing it in that specific room.
- The crown cannot be used to boost Ashin's power for other purposes, like battle meditation, telepathy, massive telekinesis, or instinctive astrogation; nor can it be used by anyone but Ashin.
- The crown has been merged with its support structure via alchemical means and physically cannot be removed from the room; it is a component of the ship, nothing more, and cannot operate alone. (This merging confers no structural benefit to the ship.)
- Though there is room for some variable geometry, directional emphasis, etc., Ashin cannot use the crown to cast a Force shield over other ships as well. Reasonable exceptions could be made for, say, a starfighter flying very close to the Vagrant's Pride, within range of Ashin's defensive aegis.
Development Thread:
- Claiming and subjugating the crown (50 posts)
Who Can Use This: Ashin and family.
Primary Source: N/A
