Description

• Ship Name: Under Wry Beginnings (Formerly The Widening Gyre)
• Class: Transport
• Hull: Orion Star Clipper
• Speed: 10
• Manoeuvrability: +25
• Detection: +16
• Turret Rating: 1
• Shields: 1
• Armour: 12
• Hull Integrity: 35
• Space Used/Available: 40/40
• Power Used/Available: 37/40
• Weapon Capacity: 1 Dorsal, 1 Keel
• Crew %: 100/100
• Morale: 85/85
• Crew Rating: 30
• Psyniscience: 30
• Navigation Warp: 30 (40 with Warpsbane Hull)

Essential Components

• Lathe-Pattern 2a Drive: Increase Speed by 1 and Maneuverability by 3.
• Strelov 1 Warp Engine
• Warpsbane Hull: Any Navigation Tests to pilot the ship through the warp gain a +10 bonus. When rolling on Warp Travel Encounters, the GM rolls twice and allows the Navigator to choose which result is applied.
• Single Void Shield Array: Provides 1 Void Shield.
• Smuggler’s Bridge: Gain 50 additional achievement points to Criminal Objectives.
• Mark 1.r Life Sustainer: Increase all Morale loss by 1.
• Slave Quarters: Decreases Maximum Morale by 5.
• W-240 Passive Detection Arrays: External. When on Silent Running, this vessel may perform any Detection action without penalty.

Supplemental Components

• Sunsear Laser Battery
  • Location: Dorsal
  • Damage: 1d10 + 2
  • Strength: 4
  • Crit Rating: 4
  • Range: 9

• Voss-Pattern Torpedo Tubes
  • Location: Keel
  • Damage: As Per Torpedo
  • Strength: 2
  • Capacity 12 (+2 if carry torpedos “loaded”)
  • Special
    • Volatile: If this Component is Damaged or Destroyed while Torpedoes are loaded in its tubes, there is a 10% chance of it exploding. If this occurs, the Component is automatically destroyed and the ship suffers 2d5 damage directly to Hull Integrity.

• Dark Eldar Void Torpedos
  • Damage: 2d10 + 14
  • Critical Penetration: 3
  • Critical Rating: 10
  • Complement: 12
  • Special: These torpedoes are automatically Seeking (+30 to hit), and vessels attacked by these Torpedos cannot apply their Turret Rating to shoot them down.

• Main Cargo Hold
  • Grants an additional 125 Achievement Points toward Trade objectives.

• Luxury Passenger Quarters
  • Grants an additional 100 Achievement Points toward Trade, Criminal, and Creed Objectives.
  • Suffer -3 to Max Morale.

• Shadowblind Bays
  • Grants an additional 50 Achievement Points toward Trade Objectives
  • Grants an additional 75 Achievement Points toward Criminal Objectives
  • To locate when engaged requires a -40 Scrutiny Test.
  • Upgrade: Distributed Cargo Hold
    • Gain an additional 50 Achievement Points for Criminal Objectives.
    • Decrease Morale by 2
    • The Vessel suffers a -10 to Repair Penalty
    • This Component may not be targetted by a Critical Hit.
    • This Component may only be identified on Focused Augury with four shifts or higher.

• Empyrean Mantle
  • External.
  • Increase difficulty of detection by 2 steps if Silent Running.
  • Gain an additional 50 Achievement Points for Criminal Objectives.

Upgrades

• Best-Quality Resolution Arena
  • Increase Maximum Morale by 5
  • Gain a + 10 bonus to all Commerce Tests on board.

Complications/Past History

• Blasphemous Tendencies
  • All Navigation Tests made to pilot this vessel through the warp gain a +15 bonus.
  • While aboard the ship, all crew suffer -5 to Willpower based Tests.

• Haunted
  • Reduce Morale permanently by 10.
  • Strange premonitions flicker on the auger arrays, granting a +6 to the ship’s Detection.
  • All non-crewmembers suffer -5 to Command Tests involving boarding actions or hit and run actions against the haunted vessel.

Total Achievement Point Bonuses

• Trade: 275 Achievement Points
• Criminal: 275 Achievement Points
• Creed: 100 Achievement Points