Re: Neogi Capital Ships (Long, kinda)

Before I promised neogi capital ships, and here I deliver them.  Enjoy at
your wil.



Great Old Master

Built By:                                             Slaves and
Umberhulks
Used By:                                           Neogi
Cost:                                                  -------  (who'd
want it besides neogi?)
Tonnage:                                          650
Hull Points:                                      650
Crew:                                                300 /650

                                                           Standard
Complement

                                                           1 Great Old
Master Helmsneogi
                                                           2 Great Old
Master "Breeders"
                                                           1 Neogi
Captain-Owner-Master
                                                           50 Neogi
Kin-Slave "Officers"
                                                           100 Umberhulks
                                                           250 Slave
Crewmen/Boarders (mostly human and
                        elves)
                                                           175 Slave
Weaponeers (153, plus extra)
                                                           50 Giff
Platoon Mercenary Slaves
                                                           1 Illithid
Liason Officer
                                                           100 Hulkship
Crewmen/Weaponeer Slaves
                                                           20 Neogi Mages
or Priests

                                                           650 Total
Maneuverability Class:                  F
Landing-Land:                                No
Landing-Water:                               No
Armour Rating:                                5
Saves As:                                         Wood, thick
Power Type:                                    Great Old Master Bonded
Major Helm
Ship's Rating:                                 As for Great Old Master
Helmsneogi
Standard Armament:
                                                          15 Heavy
Catapults- Crew 5 each
                                                          10 Medium
Catapults- Crew 3 each
                                                          8 Heavy
Jettisons- Crew 4 each
                                                          6 Medium
Ballistae- Crew 2 each
                                                          4 Bombards-
Crew 3 each
Cargo Capacity:                             85 tons
Keel Length:                                   875'
Beam Length:                                430'

The Great Old Master is perhaps the most feared ship of all Wildspace, it
is the destroyer of worlds, and conquerer of species.  Built for the sole
purpose of conquest across the known crystal spheres, this ship is the
greatest of the neogi's perverted technology.  It is built by hundreds of
slaves to resemble a gigantic great old master neogi, fat and bulging
with a vicious head protruding from the top (containing the helm) and
tiny legs from the bottom.  Besides being gigantic, this ship is
propelled by perhaps the foulest helm in the multiverse: a Great Old
Master Bonded Major Helm (discussed below).  It is equiped with a great
number of heavy and medium weapons as well as a grappling ram (the ships
"legs" which can only be used if above the other ship).  This ship also
has the added danger of being a carrier for eight Hulkship fighters.
Although it is too heavy to remain in an atmosphere for long (20 minutes
before the ship's integrity is destroyed resulting in the destruction of
the vessel), the ship is a good planetary assault ship as it is able to
use the Hulkships as shuttles to drop slave-warriors upon the planet's
surface.  The ship is also feared for its boarding capabilities.  Aside
from the weapons ports and the eight Hulkship hanger bays (placed near
each "leg") the ship can be considered full cover for missle attacks
against individuals.  The ship is also used as a breeding ship because it
always carries at least two great old masters, besides the helmsneogi,
ready to "burst."  The slaves are kept in this ship in tiny cells of 5' x
4' x 5' honey-combed throughout the ship.  The only real vulnerability of
the ship is the head, which has AR 8, and contains the helm, without
which the ship would be dead in space.

Great Old Master Bonded Major Helm

This helm is an especially perverse creation of neogi mages.  They
magically bond a major helm to a Great Old Master, who in its previous
"life" must have been a mage of at least 10th level, which effectively
stops the breeding progress of the Great Old Master and allows it to
retain an Intelligence of 6-8 (just enough to respond to commands from
the ship's captain).  The helm works as a major helm using the level of
the Great Old Master for SR determination only under a certain
circumstance.  That circumstance being that the great old master must
have fed upon the body of either a syllix magestar, beholder orbus, or
spellcaster capable of working a helm. (these are stockpiled)  The SR of
the ship is determined by the level the creature eaten would have
provided up to the maximum of of the great old master's level (ex. a 10th
level great old master could only spelljam at SR3 if it had eaten a 6th
level cleric, but if it had eaten a 20th level mage the SR would only be
SR5).  The amount of time that the ship can be powered is also up to
level of the creature eaten.  For every level of the mage or cleric the
ship can be powered for that many weeks, a syllix magestar or orbus will
only power a ship for 5 weeks.  The helm has a secondary system in that
it can function as a lifejammer if the great old master has not eaten a
suitable creature in weeks.

Hulkship

Built By:                                   Slaves
Used By:                                 Slaves and Umberhulks
Cost:                                        ----------
Tonnage:                                22
Hull Points:                            22 (crystal eyes included at 1
hull point each)
Crew:                                       8/15

                                                 Standard Complement

                                                 1 Neogi "captain"
                                                 3 Umberhulk "officers"
                                                 1 Slave Helmsman
                                                 10 Slave
crewmen/weaponeers

                                                 15 total
Maneuverability Class:        C
Landing-Land:                      Yes
Landing-Water:                     No
Armour Rating:                      6
Saves As:                               Wood, thick
Power Type:                           Lifejammer
Ship's Rating:                        As for helmsman
Standard Armament:
                                                 Piercing Ram
                                                 2 Umberhulk Crystal
Focus Eyes (see below)-Crew 1 hulk
          each
                                                 2 Light Ballistae- Crew
1 each
Cargo Capacity:                    5 tons
Keel Length:                          35'
Beam Length:                       25'

This is the neogi's version of a light attack fighter or ground assault
ship.  Shaped like an enormous umberhulk's head this is a ship to strike
terror in the hearts of many.  With its piercing ram shaped out of the
umberhulk's mandibles, and its other special armaments, this is a ship
not to be messed with.  The crystal eye focuses are shaped as the hulk's
main eyes, and the ballistae are fired from the secondary eyes.

Umberhulk Crystal Eye Focus

This is a magically treated giant crystal (8' tall) that allows a single
umberhulk to utilize its confusion gaze attack on a whole vessel,
including that ship's helmsman, leaving the ship dead in space.
Essentially the hulk focuses its gaze upon one ship and the eye magnifies
the gaze over the entire vessel, making the hulkship seem as though it
were a "real" giant umberhulk.  Note-because a hulkship employs two of
these, two different vessels can be affected at once.  Each crystal is
very delicate and need only to take one hull point of damage (or 10
cumulative hit points from personal weapons, this damge is suffered by
the ship as well, ex. one eye destroyed takes off one hull point from the
ship's total) before it is detroyed (destroying a crystal eye fall under
the called shot ruling).


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