Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 03:04:24 -0400
From: Theron Rutyna <ttrutyna@mtu.edu>
Subject: Re: Wanted:  Nice ship
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The following ship is my first character's ship from when I played first edition(long, long, ago...).  I will note that the following results from many, many
years of hard role playing, please remember that.  However, it is a good exampleof what a good ship can be.  the history will come first (shortened version)
followed by game stats and interesting notes.

			The Arc Raider (yt-400)
	The Arc Raider (Arc) is an old yt-400 transport that has seen many days
and many repairs (see my previous post for yt-400 origional stats).  It's 
history first comes to note three hundred and eighteen (318, yes) years before
the battle of Yavin when it was purchased by a certain young pilot by the name
of Sherman Del.  Sherman bought the ship from an Republic (old) public auction
in which the Republic was selling off it's old freighters to make room and 
money for newer models.  What Sherman bought was a tough old freighter on its
last legs.  Sherman cristened his new ship the "Arc" and modified it's shield
systems using parts from a derilict frigate in decaying orbit above his home
planet.  
	Sherman then signed up with the Republic on a high risk, high paying
job ferring medical supplies (including stasis chambers) from the core worlds
to a rim system being attacked by marauding aliens.  During the delivery 
process the Arc was shot down over a planet in the middle of nowhere by an
alien cruiser.  In order to survive, Sherman and his copilot boosted full
power to the anti-cuncussion field generators and hooked two of the stasis
booths up to a shielded backup generator.  A crash insued in which the 
Arc wasn't seriously damaged, but the stasis field's auto shut offs were
misaligned.   Sherman awoke 200 yrs later during the clone wars when an old
republic dreadnoght rescued him.  Sherman joined the side of the good jedi
for the clone wars and used his old ship to it's fullest, with sever weapon
modifications, to aid the jedi.  the Arc's front cargo bay was replaced with
power generators and conduits allowing the ship to be outfitted with massive
weapon emplacements turning it into a mobile anti- frigate/starfighter 
platform.  Sherman's many daring raids on enemy convoys and his ships unerring
luck earned the ship the nickname the "Arc Raider."  Sherman adopted this
as the ships official name.  Many daring exploits followed until another ill-
fated crash left the crew once again stranded in stasis on a backwater planet.
This internment lasted until a brave group of Rebel pilots freed the ship and
it's pilots at the beginning of the rebellion.  Sherman took his ship private for 5 years until the republic called his debt to them.  The Arc Raider played
a pivotal role in the actions of Black Wing (one of my groups).  
	Sherman Del is, at the end of the Zahn trilogy, 58 (358) yrs old.
	The Arc has undergone extensive refitting, effectively halving it's
cargo space and giving it the weaponry of the adverage corvette.  Not to 
mention the array of smuggling devices anyone would give their left appendage
for.  

Starship: Arc Raider
Craft: yt-400 transpor
Type:  Heavy freighter
Scale:  Capital
Length:  100m
Skill:  space tps:  Arc Raider
Crew:  min 2, max: 20.
Passengers:  up to 10 with crew
Cargo:  15,000 mtons.
Consumables:  1yr (not including ammo)
Hyperdrive:  X.85
Backup: X12
Nav computer:  yes, not standard (1in6 breakdown)
Manuverability: 2d
Space: 8
Atmosphere: 360/ 1000 kmh.
Hull: 7d
Shields:  4d (hull and shields capital scale)
Sensors:  P: 20/0d  Scan: 35/1d  Search: 40/2d Focus: 2/3d
Weapondry: (all starfighter scale)
Key: *=retractable into hull;  '= rigged for possible cockpit fire; T=top
L=left; R=right; B=bottom

Weapon:        #        fire control damage range  location/arc  special

Quad cannons   2          4d (2d')     6d    std     t,b / turret  '
Dual Lazers    4          3d (0d')     4d    std     lt,lb,rt,ft/front *'
Dual Lazers    2          3d (0d')     4d    std     lt,rt/rear
Tri-cannons    2            "          5d    std     l,r/ front/back *'
Tri-cannons    2            "          5d    std     betw bow/front
single lazers  2          2d (0d')     3d    std     l,r /larc, rarc *'
Proton laun.   4          2d (0d')     9d    1/3/7   front arc/rear arc '

Notes further:  all can be fire linked for forward or backward if needed.
system shorts out on a 1 on the wild die. 
	I will post the smuggling gear later.
			Theron Rutyna
			ada: Lord Vader