Sara, do you have any questions while we await your formal introduction?

Haha that's great. The void has really made an irresistible planet.

"Why is my Admin Cap so bad"

So what might be the most epic mission of the Hegemony is being entrusted to a few veterans and a crapton of rookies.

It is a good thing I'm a believer.

If I remember correctly, after the war with the Brotherhood there was a massive demobilization and brain drain in the Indari Hegemony Navy. We are part of an effort to keep some talent in the force, hence our rag-tag and rookie nature.

Hargrave was a salvager, Hersson is a rookie on the rise and Mysh is a grizzled spec ops vet rehabilitated from an orbit-to-surface crash.

Is there a limit to how much training we can get? Also I'm thinking language/hindi and culture/RSN would be helpful.

That, and keep in mind we've joined on the tail end of a pretty big war. A lot of dead officers left gaps in the ranks which the Hegemony would want to have filled up, especially after just finding out about the new kids on the block.

There is some confusion here as we have seen both technology that equals our own and much more than makes that of the Brotherhood look advanced

Is there such a thing as a ship sized TK Sling? I'm thinking a massive array that can be used like the sling just on a larger scale

Yeah, not to mention we took a group of the smallest warships in the Frigate category and captured a Cruiser-class with it. Even at TL3 the reward money alone would be enough to buy half the fleet.

Instead of firing, Draken-3 emitted a bright flash, expelling gas from the laser mount and sputtered quickly banking away from the fight, expelling another nuclear charge to change vector and flee the battle, deploying radiators and dumping the remaining few nuclear torpedoes inert into space, in the ancient spacer sign of 'surrender'

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40k imperial guard grunts try to deal with terrifying/whacky misadventures as part of the inquisition.

Free Merchant

Cost: 775,000
Hit Points: 20
Crew: 1/6
Speed: 3
Armor: 2
AC: 6

Weaponry:
Multifocal Laser (+1 to hit/1d4, AP 20): 5/1
Sandthrower (+1 to hit/2d4, Flak): 3/1

Defenses:
None

Fittings:
Spike Drive-1: -/-
Atmospheric Configuration: -/2
Fuel scoops: 2/2
Fuel bunker: -/4 (inferred from having 0 Power and Mass free)
100 tons of cargo space: -/5

Total:
Power: 10
Mass: 15

Free Merchant hull 500k

Power=10 Max
Mass= 15 max

Spike Drive-2:   2/2 100k
Cargo Space: -/2 (Holds 40 tons raw materials or 20HP repairs)
Extended Stores: -/2 25k
Armory: -/- 20k
Ship's Locker: -/- 20k
Lifeboats: -/1 25k
Fuel Scoops: 2/2 50k
Contextual Camo Field: 4/2 500k
Fuel Bunkers: -/3 75k
Survey Sensor Array: 2/1 50k

Total Power = 10
Total Mass = 15

Total Cost: 1.365m credits

Knarr-class Corvette Tender
Type: Free Merchant
Cost: 1.420m
Speed: 2
Armor: 2
HP: 20
Crew: 1/6
AC: 4
Power: 10/10
Mass: 15/15
Hardpoints: 1/2
Class: Frigate


Fittings:
Spike Drive-2: 2/2 100k
Fuel Bunkers -/1 25k
Atmo Config: -/2 50k
Extended Stores: -/2 25k
Armory: -/- 20k
Ship's Locker: -/- 20k
Lifeboats: -/1 25k
Survey Sensor Array 2/1 50k
Workshops 2/1 5k
Cargo Space -/3 (60 tons)


Weapons
Reaper Battery: 4/1 100k

Defenses
Augmented Plating -/2 500k

As for the Rospolis, It's a pocket cruiser :)

About the Ivar though, would leaving it in drydock for the next mission, and collecting it in the next downtime segment waive the extra 625k refitting cost due to building it as a custom order?

Actually, double checking my character sheet, I already had Tactics.

Dear void, is it even possible to pick up a culture/Rudragni?

The illusion is quite imperfect, and any observer within a hundred yards of the ship can tell that something is wrong. Personal inspection always reveals the imposture. Camo fields can easily defeat any TL3 form of long-range sensor. The fields usually stand up to civilian-grade TL4 detection, but landing in an area under significant military observation is not advisable.

ntextual camo fields disguise shuttles or frigate-sized craft as objects appropriate to their local landing site.

Favored by traders forced to deal with unfriendly worlds, contextual camo fields disguise shuttles or frigate-sized craft as objects appropriate to their local landing site. Holoprojectors embedded in the hull and shaped composite shells allow the ship to appear as a dune in a desert, a ruined building in an ancient city, a cluster of trees in a forest, or any other object of comparable size and dimensions. The physical composite shields heat and energy signatures while spoofing radar pings, while the holoprojectors mask the visual outlines of the ship.
The illusion is quite imperfect, and any observer within a hundred yards of the ship can tell that something is wrong. Personal inspection always reveals the imposture. Camo fields can easily defeat any TL3 form of long-range sensor. The fields usually stand up to civilian-grade TL4 detection, but landing in an area under significant military observation is not advisable.
Camo fields can be mounted on shuttles or frigates. The fittings have a base power drain of 2 power and a base mass cost of 1 free mass. The price for a shuttle instillation is 50,000 credits. Power, mass, and base price are all multiplied by the hull class they are installed into, as per the fittings table in the Stars Without Number core book.

Wraith Shuttle: Wraith-class shuttles are modified cargo lighter hulls designed to sacrifice almost all the interior space in favor of stealth features. Curved surfaces, advanced composites, and contextual mimetic cloaking skins are all worked together to create a shuttle capable of getting small groups of people on or off a world unnoticed. Wraith shuttles have no spike drives and cannot usually manage interplanetary travel, though they can normally reach orbital stations with ten minutes of flight and near moons within two hours. Their fusion plant requires fueling only once per year.
For most practical purposes, Wraith shuttles are immune to tech level 4 sensor technology. So long as the shuttle avoids population centers, steers clear of the immediate neighborhood of orbital sensors, and otherwise keeps a low profile, the shuttle can automatically touch down and lift off without drawing the attention of local sensor arrays.
A wraith shuttle can handle up to eight passengers, including the single pilot required for operation, and keep them breathing for up to two days before requiring a refreshment of their atmosphere. Cargo space is extremely limited, and much of any unused passenger space has to be filled with soft, sensor-deceiving stealth material before liftoff. The passengers can take whatever their encumbrance limits normally allow, plus an additional ten items worth of encumbrance for every passenger slot left unused. If actual mass is important, count it as fifty free kilos of space for every free passenger slot. Wraith shuttles cannot mount weaponry, but if engaged in combat within an atmosphere they can be treated as grav flyers for purposes of statistics.

Holoprojectors embedded in the hull and shaped composite shells allow the ship to appear as a dune in a desert, a ruined building in an ancient city, a cluster of trees in a forest, or any other object of comparable size and dimensions. The physical composite shields heat and energy signatures while spoofing radar pings, while the holoprojectors mask the visual outlines of the ship.

The first spacecraft to transit the asteroid belt was NASA's Pioneer 10, which made its epic crossing in 1972 on the way to the historic first encounter of a spacecraft with Jupiter. Later, Pioneer 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini, NEAR and Ulysses all made the same kind of journey to or across the main belt. Now it is our turn. Fortunately, the asteroid belt is so huge that, despite its large population of small bodies, the chance of running into one is almost vanishingly small - far less than one in one billion. That means that if you want to actually come close enough to an asteroid to make detailed studies of it, you have to aim for a specific asteroid.