Ship The Jixuan

[Nor'baal]

Sail deployed​

The Jixuan

AFFILIATION
Senator Dimon Fee Simm

MANUFACTURER
Huppla Pasa Tisc Shipwrights Collective.

CLASS
Star Yacht.

ROLE
Luxury Transport.

COMPOSITION
Durasteel and transparisteel

DIMENSIONS
15.2 meters (105.15 meters with sail) long.

CREW
1 (droid)

PASSENGER CAPACITY
10 (standing room only)

CARGO CAPACITY
2 tonnes

HANGAR CAPACITY
N/A

CONSUMABLES
1 month.

SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
1,600 km/h (atmosphere)/85 MGLT, good manoeuvrability.

ARMAMENT

• 84 narrow tractor/repulsor beams.
• Groundsweeper Light Blaster Cannon

EQUIPMENT

• Class 1 Hyperdrive (primary)
• Class 15 Hyperdrive (backup)
• Long-range communications suite
• Medium deflector shield
• Solar sail
• Smuggling compartments

DESCRIPTION​

Purchased from a collector by Senator Dimon Fee Simm, the Jixuan is a Punworcca 116-class sloop. At 15.2 meters long, 4.6 meters wide, and 4.8 meters deep, it had two multifunctional bow prongs, with an orb-like cockpit module positioned between the two and a crew hold at the craft's stern.

Composed out of durasteel alloys, the sloop was made up of precious metals, with the interior customisable to the purchaser's tastes. In Dimons case, this came across in various modifications, mostly of the hold, which he had refurbished as an office and place to hold his collections. With a wall converted into a display case, and the room itself featuring a desk and holotranciever, as well as numerous artworks across the walls, the hold saw its capacity reduced massively and replaced with smuggling compartments.

Whilst conventionally speaking, being unarmed, the solar sailer carried rows of 84 narrow-bream tractor-repulsor emitters along the bow, which could act as an offensive grapple. With modifications, the cockpit module could e replaced with a weapons module, with pilot controls moved to the main hold (however, in this model, that was not the case).

Dimon had installed a Groundsweeper Light Blaster Cannon on the vessel's underside.

Most uniquely however, the Punworcca 116-class sloop came with a solar sail, unfurled to enable the ship to be powered 'silently'. This feature was of great value and almost doubled the ship's price - as it could make it very hard to track through hyperspace, using suprelight emissions to afford it excellent performance.

Aside from this, the solar sailer was equipped with a conventional repulsorlift, with tractor beam emitters along the bow prongs serving as steering aids when they were surrounding objects to tract with. This, combined with the spread of ray shield and particle shield energies, which could be manipulated along the prongs, made the ship exceptionally manoeuvrable within the atmosphere and places like asteroid fields (but only with the sail down).

Inside, the vessel was reasonably luxurious, as could be expected, thanks to the purchase price. It featured a retractable boarding ramp at the vessel's rear, giving proper access to the ship. A passenger orb was located at the back, with a ladder to the maintenance shaft and small lodgings for the occupant.

A piloting orb with two chairs could be found at the fore of the ship.

LEGALITY​

Yachts are considered legal. Smuggling compartments are not, depending on what is in them.

INTENT​

To make a personal version of this ship for my character.