Friday, July 20, 2012

Star Wars: Terran Vulture

Confederation Vulture
Craft: Vulture Hover Bike
Type: Speeder bike
Scale: Speeder
Length: 5 meters
Skill: Repulsorlife operations: speeder bike
Crew: 1
Crew Skill: 3d
Passengers: 1
Cargo Capacity: 12 kg (spider mine hatch)
Cover: 1/4
Altitude Range: Ground level - 3 meters
Cost: 7,500 (new)
Maneuverability: 4d
Move: 148; 370 kmh
Body Strength: 2d+2
Weapons:
AGP-2 "Thumper" grenade launcher
Fire Arc: Front
Skill: Vehicle weapons
Fire Control: 1d
Range: 3-7/20/40
Blast Radius: 0-2/4/6/10
Damage: 5d/4d/3d/2d
Spider mines
Fire Arc: none, can be planted in ground
Range: Mines attempt to collide with any target that gets within 5 meters. They have a move of 12 and roll 6d for initiative.
Damage: 6d
Load: 3

The vulture is a lightly-armored one-man hoverbike primarily used for scouting and patrol, designed with speed and reliability in mind. These features make the vulture suitable for patrolling the vast wildernesses typically found around outer rim colonies. They produce a humming whine as they move.

Vultures are ill suited for heavy combat, given their light frame. However, they make excellent skirmishers, especially against lightly armored targets. Vultures are also tasked with scavenging ("scavenger hover bike" is a term occasionally used). In some occasions, vultures may be formed into small squadrons, usually attached to mechanized infantry. Given the speed at which the bikes move however, it is difficult to maintain cohesion. The vulture's driver seat can be enclosed depending on model, customization, or operating environment and can be configured for someone to ride shotgun. The bike can catastrophically fail if the repulsors freeze up, or the fuel cells begin leaking radioactive material.

1 comment:

  1. That's nice swapping a Starcraft craft into star wars RPG

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