Star wars d6 ship construction11/10/2022 ![]() ![]() The Spirals are launched from freighters. Assuming no deceleration, we know that the distance to cover was rougly 500 kilometers, and that it took more than ten seconds, at least. Let's try to obtain the highest speed possible. Shields in Star Wars, especially starship shields, tend to hugg the hulls. The particle shield is more than one second offset from the engine pod's hull. Meaning that pretty much anything else will be of inferior resistance against impacts, and that without counting the much likely fact that, as said, the nose of such a one-use ship would have quite a lot of armour. it will be interesting because we'll know that only a special alloy, used in supposedly a sufficiently large quantity to protect the ship's bow, can only cope with 92% of that energy. We can reasonnably guestimate a kinetic energy for the boarding crafts. Well first of all, we can obtain a speed estimate, as well as an idea of how far the particle shield extends from the Black Ice. There's a sudden wrenching shock to your body. You're through the shielding! One second to impact. you hear a "click" as the proton charge arms itself. the shielding lowers over the transparisteel, leaving you blind. You make your final course adjustments and activate the inertial couches - your're now totally helpless until you slam into the vessel or miss. You try not to think about what would happen if you missed your target and crashed into one of them. The Ice is composed of three main sections: two huge engines pods, and between them, the cargo fields, nine shimmering black balls of force, each containing 110,000,000 tons of high-grade starship fuel. More details become apparent as you close with the train. That thing out there is 7,800 meters long - five times the length of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. It's bigger than you expected, and it appears to be about 500 kilometers away. You bring your mind back to business and find your prey, the huge, black string of pearls directly ahead. Within seconds, the after hatch on the freighter opens, sending both assault ships into space. It's no fun going into battle blind, stowed aboard a slow, virtually defenseless freighter. We don't know the yield, but it's hard to believe that it would surpass a proton torpedo's 1 kiloton yield (figure from the Star Wars Technical Journal). So that would be th equivalent of a small charged nuke, firing up a proper mixture into a forward cone. We're dealing with the equivalent of a plasma burst here, at best occuring within microseconds. This proves enough for the craft to fly through it. So a contact proton shaped burst can put a hole into a particle shield for a fraction of a second. Once inside the target, the vac-suited passengers exit and overwhelm the stunned crew of the boarded vessel. Additional protection to the passengers and crew is provided by inertial-damping grav couches. The Spiral's nose cone is composed entirely of sublimating tekonite, which vaporizes upon collision, absorbing nearly 92 percent of the kinetic energy of the impact, insuring that the ship's cabin survives the collision virtually intact. When the Spiral hits the target's particle shielding, the shaped proton charge detonates, disrupting the shields for a fraction of a second - long enough for the Spiral to burn through and bury itself into the target's side. The ship is equipped with no ranged weapons at all, instead relying on stealth technology to keep targets from spotting it until it is too late. ![]() The Spiral-class in a single-use, small-unit boarding craft, designed for the rapid insertion of special forces into non-military vessels or space stations. So we start with picks from the briefing and hours preceding the attack. The Rebels see with Lawra to assault a resupply convoy at Refrax. It also hosts 100 starfighters, 5 corvettes and 6 light cargos. There are around three thousand Rebel operatives at that time in the base of Fangol. It has a proper comm-suite to punch through the mist and reach the deeply buried base, although it's possible sensors are located at the surface. A single small artificial moon floats there, operated by droids which can be entirely deactivated, and takes care of communications. It makes the base undetectable and any flying through the mist hazardous and most entirely done by sight. The Alliance HQ Sector of that adventure is located on Fangol, a deadly ice planet covered with a mist saturated with metal particles. The first part of the adventure deals with a woman Alliance field mission commander, Major Lawra Mers, sending a team of rebels plus a droid to infiltrate a low-defense Imperial Intelligence TSB outpost, hack some computers and get back with the info to prepare for a raid against an Imperial convoy. Here we go, as promised, here are the commentaries on the RPG supplement Black Ice, by West End Games. ![]()
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