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Razorwind Jetbike
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The Razorwind is a Jetbike designed to replace the various hasty refits initially used by Vau-Vulkesh. It carries paired Needler Rifles to engage massed Infantry, as well as a heavy Spike Cannon for heavier targets such as heavy infantry or light vehicles. The rider is equipped with a Void Guard Warsuit, Flamer Pistol, and light Close Combat Weapon for additional attacks or use if dismounted.
Jetbike Cost: 50 EP
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Mirage Hover-Transport
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The Mirage Hover-Transport is an open-topped transport with the capacity for up to thirteen passengers in addition to the four-man crew. Three pintle-mounted weapons emplacements with a pair of Spike Rifles gives the vehicle reasonable ability to engage most infantry or lighter vehicles, while a Holo-Field and pair of Grav-shields make the vehicle (and its passengers) quite difficult to successfully hit. The crew is supplied with Wraithweave Brigandine armor, as well as Flamer Pistols and light Close Combat Weapons to defend against boarders or in the event of the vehicle needing to be abandoned.
Vehicle EP Cost: 195
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Nettle Class Destroyer
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The Nettle class is a light escort developed to replace the original hasty refits in use by Vau-Vulkesh. The ship is propelled by a pair of Æthersails, with a starship grade Holo-Field for defense.
Construction Time:
- 1 Turn (single ship)
- 2 Turns (batch of 3)
- 3 Turns (batch of 5)
- 4 Turns (batch of 7)
The Fleets of Arach-Qin
From the Webway emerges a column of wounded starships, bearing the duty-black and vengeance-crimson of Arach-Qin, their elaborate moth-swarm paint marred and scorched. Here, staggering Destroyers with but stubs of sails tow a nearly hulked Heavy Cruiser between them. There, a Battleship trails skines of white-cloud atmosphere from unsealed breaches, a second towed behind it clearly the victim of a direct collision with an Orkish Rok, the shattered craft's wreckage entangled with the once proud vessel. Great rents are torn in hulls, sails, weapons and engines—even more than a few bridges—torn away or smashed to ruin by the brute violence of the Ork. They are few. They are battered, scarred and limping, yet for all their horrific damage, they remain unbroken. These are the most wounded of Arach-Qin's survivors: Two
Thysania class battleships. One
Coscinocera class Heavy Cruiser. Eight
Calliplaca class Cruisers. Two
Phalaros class light cruisers. Five
Terncladus class raiders. Twelve
Synempora class frigates. Twenty two
Argema class Destroyers.
The battered survivors of a fleet that once numbered in the thousands. More are held in reserve, yes—yet the devastation that proud fleet has endured is all too clear.
- 1 Thysania class (ETA 8 turns)
- 1 Thysania class (ETA 6 turns)
- 1 Coscinocera class (ETA 7 turns)
- 3 Calliplaca class (ETA 5 turns)
- 4 Calliplaca class (ETA 3 turns)
- 1 Calliplaca class (ETA 2 turns)
- 2 Phalaros class (ETA 4 turns)
- 3 Terncladus class (ETA 4 turns)
- 2 Terncladus class (ETA 3 turns)
- 3 Synempora class (ETA 4 turns)
- 7 Synempora class (ETA 3 turns)
- 2 Synempora class (ETA 2 turns)
- 18 Argema class (ETA 2 turns)
- 4 Argema class (ETA 1 turn)
The Ships of Arach-Qin
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Thysania class Battleship
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The Thysania class is the pride of Arach-Qin's fleet, a heavy Battleship boasting four heavy Las-Lances, two batteries of standard Las-Lances, and one battery each of Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters and Heavy Torpedo Launchers. With three Æthersails and a pair of plasma engines, these ships boast maneuverability which belies their size and heavily armored hulls.
Equipment:
- 4× Heavy Las-Lance
- 2× Las-Lance Weapon Batteries
- 1× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Heavy Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 3× Æthersails
- 2× Plasma Thrusters
- 6× Hull Reinforcement
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Coscinocera class Battlecruiser
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The Coscinocera class is a light vessel that is effectively a Thysania without the heavy hull reinforcement, though it boasts an additional Æthersail and plasma drive to allow even greater maneuverability.
Equipment:
- 4× Heavy Las-Lance
- 2× Las-Lance Weapon Batteries
- 1× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Heavy Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 4× Æthersails
- 3× Plasma Thrusters
- 1× Hull Reinforcement
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Calliplaca class Cruiser
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The Calliplaca class is a generalist workhorse design, carrying two batteries of Las-Lances and Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters and one battery of Heavy Torpedo Launchers, supplemented by a Close-In Weapons Battery of Volcano Cannons and a Lascannon point defense array. The ship also boasts a hanger for three squadrons of strike craft and a deployment bay for a modest Warhost, as well as a moderately reinforced armor belt. Two Æthersails and plasma drives provide good maneuverability for the vessel.
Equipment:
- 2× Las-Lance Weapon Batteries
- 2× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Heavy Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 1× Volcano Cannon Close-In Weapon Battery
- 1× Lascannon Point Defense Weapon Battery
- 2× Æthersails
- 2× Plasma Thrusters
- 1× Hanger
- 1× Large Transport Bay
- 2× Hull Reinforcement
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Phalaros class Light Cruiser
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The Phalaros class is meant to supplement the Calliplaca class, carrying a single heavy Las-Lance and standard Las-Lance battery for long range engagement, a single Heavy Torpedo Launcher battery for medium range combat, and two batteries of Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters for close battle. The ships do, however, lack any secondary function whatsoever, as the twin Æthersails and plasma drives leave little spare room after the reinforcement of the ship's hull.
Equipment:
- 1× Heavy Las-Lance
- 1× Las-Lance Weapon Batteries
- 2× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Heavy Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 2× Æthersails
- 2× Plasma Thrusters
- 2× Hull Reinforcement
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Terncladus class Heavy Frigate
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The Terncladus class is a heavy gunboat designed to work with the Synempora class in a flotilla. These ships mount a single Æthersail and plasma drive, three heavy Las-Lances, and a heavy array of point defense Lascannons, making them superb escorts for the smaller frigates.
Equipment:
- 3× Heavy Las-Lance
- 2× Lascannon Point Defense Weapon Battery
- 1× Æthersail
- 1× Plasma Thruster
- 1× Hull Reinforcement
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Synempora class Light Carrier
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The Synempora class is designed as a light carrier and is the method by which Arach-Qin brings the majority of its strike craft to battle. Six squadrons of strike craft can be carried by the ship, which is also armed with two batteries of Las-Lances and one battery each of Light Torpedo Launchers and Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters. One Æthersail and plasma drive propel the ship and a modest hull reinforcement grants them additional durability.
Equipment:
- 2× Las-Lance Weapon Batteries
- 1× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Light Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 1× Æthersails
- 1× Plasma Thrusters
- 3× Hanger
- 1× Hull Reinforcement
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Argema class Destroyer
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The Argema class is designed as a screening vessel and carries a general range armament, one battery each of Las-Lances, Light Torpedo Launchers, and Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters, supplemented by a Lascannon point defense grid. One Æthersail and plasma drive propel the vessel.
Equipment:
- 1× Las-Lance Weapon Battery
- 1× Magna-Melta Macro-Blaster Weapon Battery
- 1× Light Torpedo Launcher Weapon Battery
- 1× Lascannon Point Defense Weapon Battery
- 1× Æthersails
- 1× Plasma Thrusters
Novel Weapons
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Magna-Melta Macro-Blasters
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Colossal Melta weapons designed for use by and against voidships, these weapons are short ranged but extremely deadly within that range, as the Orks found out.
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Volcano Cannons
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Effectively a starship scale Las-Lance that has been cut down sufficiently to fit into a conventional vehicle, Volcano Cannons might lack the range of their larger counterparts but have lost less than half of their destructive power, allowing them to act as suitable weapons for engaging large targets such as Ork battle-walkers.
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Voidship Torpedoes
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Torpedo Launchers are reasonably common as Voidship weapons go, used to fire a wide variety of guided, unguided, and partially guided munitions with various payloads. Torpedo launchers are often found on smaller ships, where their high damage to size ratio and significant degree of flexibility allows them to be more threatening than they might otherwise be—after all, a Vortex warhead or Plasma explosive is just as dangerous when launched by a Corvette as when it is launched from a battleship!
Torpedo Launchers are generally classed as either light or heavy based on the number of tubes, with light launchers being a pair and heavy launchers a trio in the case of the Aeldari.
Harken the Exiles
There are three offers to aid you: The first, of course, is Quilan—the necessity of maintaining a fleet to defend themselves from various dangers from the nearby Ghost Stars has led them to have a higher than average percentage of their population in permanent settlements than is typical, and those same dangers have resulted in you having an easy thing to offer: refitting their fleet with some of the weapons and defenses you have developed to replace those that no longer function.
The second is distant Val-Terrine, whose population leaned heavily to Isha before the Fall, and so maintain a far more agrarian existence than most. They are troubled by Ork raids—Freebootas, likely from a hideout nearby—and their payment would be in the tracking and elimination of these raiders, which they have not enough ships nor forces to accomplish while defending themselves adequately. The third is… well.
The Arrival
What fun! What Jest!
Not a night of Rest!
The Fool yet lives,
And so thusly his shadows,
So come now quick,
This is no trick,
But offer the aid of these Fools do we,
To see thy world remain vibrant and free!
The Harlequins have made contact with you.
Take aid from:
[ ] Quilan
Refit Quilan's fleet with equipment of your devising, in exchange for a number of teachers willing to help your farmers avoid basic pitfalls.
[ ] Val-Terrine
Help Val-Terrine in the galactic southeast with a minor raiding problem by tracking the Freebootas so engaged to their lair and destroying them.
[ ] The Masque of Sundered Lovers
The mysterious Harlequins are willing to help you get into contact with sources of expertise you may not have considered or known of. Supposedly for free, but the Laughing God's followers are… occasionally less than predictable. And sometimes a little too fond of the parable about being careful what one wishes for…
6 HOUR MORATORIUM
