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Starship: Thunderblade
In the waning days of the Galactic Republic, Kuat Systems Engineering produced a series of compact luxury yachts.
The starship was marketed towards the wealthy businessman who liked a bit of piloting action himself.
It had the agility and speed to keep up with even the better starfighters of that time. While still providing the comfort one might expect from a luxury yacht.
(There used to be a jacuzzi on board).
To make all of that possible the craft is propelled by three rather large engines, one integrated in the tail and the other two mounted one on each side.
The fuel consumption however is ridiculous.
Naturally, achieving the performing stats of an X-wing on a craft that weighs at least 4 times as much comes at a cost…
However, somewhere around the forming of the Galactic Empire, this particular ship found its way into the hands of a bounty hunter (probably stolen).
To suit the profession better the ship underwent some serious modifications.
These mostly involve adding armament and removing unnecessary features.
(such as the jacuzzi mentioned earlier).
A dorsal mounted cannon allows for fending off pursuers, a considerable part of the living space behind the cockpit was sacrificed to fit a military grade deflector shield generator in order to be able to withstand some serious enemy fire and the rear observation segment was filled with various tracking equipment and a cloaking device, making it well-capable to make itself invisible to most scanners.
Seems like KSE is a most suited supplier of bounty hunter ships.
This MOC is actually the successful marriage of two WIPs I had laying about.
I’ve been wanting to do some more starship building and was looking into renovating this previously build ship. But I soon realised it was in such a bad shape that I might as well start over again. So I did.
I had a lot of features I wanted on the ship and not all of them made it.
No functional boarding ramp alas but it does have all the flaps, vents and greebles I like.
Starship: Thunderblade
In the waning days of the Galactic Republic, Kuat Systems Engineering produced a series of compact luxury yachts.
The starship was marketed towards the wealthy businessman who liked a bit of piloting action himself.
It had the agility and speed to keep up with even the better starfighters of that time. While still providing the comfort one might expect from a luxury yacht.
(There used to be a jacuzzi on board).
To make all of that possible the craft is propelled by three rather large engines, one integrated in the tail and the other two mounted one on each side.
The fuel consumption however is ridiculous.
Naturally, achieving the performing stats of an X-wing on a craft that weighs at least 4 times as much comes at a cost…
However, somewhere around the forming of the Galactic Empire, this particular ship found its way into the hands of a bounty hunter (probably stolen).
To suit the profession better the ship underwent some serious modifications.
These mostly involve adding armament and removing unnecessary features.
(such as the jacuzzi mentioned earlier).
A dorsal mounted cannon allows for fending off pursuers, a considerable part of the living space behind the cockpit was sacrificed to fit a military grade deflector shield generator in order to be able to withstand some serious enemy fire and the rear observation segment was filled with various tracking equipment and a cloaking device, making it well-capable to make itself invisible to most scanners.
Seems like KSE is a most suited supplier of bounty hunter ships.
This MOC is actually the successful marriage of two WIPs I had laying about.
I’ve been wanting to do some more starship building and was looking into renovating this previously build ship. But I soon realised it was in such a bad shape that I might as well start over again. So I did.
I had a lot of features I wanted on the ship and not all of them made it.
No functional boarding ramp alas but it does have all the flaps, vents and greebles I like.