Rank: Commander
Name: Dr. Isaac Hayden
Age: 60 (Technically 95)
Position: Kharon’s head engineer/Current Captain.
Appearance: His new body is built out of a heavily modified assault frame, stripping out most of the armor and weapons to make room for crystal stacked memory banks, quantum logic engines, fiberoptic transfer links and what remains of his organic brainware. These systems are heavily shielded from radiation, emp, physical trauma and remote jacking. Surrounding these systems is liquid metal armor and a deflector barrier that is separate from his personal unit.
Bolted to his “spine” are two mechanical tendrils that can extend out to two meters in length and are 1.5 inches in diameter. Both units have three “fingers” each have almost the same manual dexterity as hands. They will coil around the torso when not in use. On his normal arms rest a myriad of tools built into and on the lower and upper arms. These include a powered hull cutting saw, solder, sensitive sensor equipment, wire cutter/stripper, screwdrivers, sockets, pliers, arc torch, and other minor tools. Below his torso is a pair of powerful hydraulic legs, each are double jointed and end in what would be normalish feet, if they didn't come with retracted grounding spikes. All together he stands an impressive 2.5 meters tall and weighs a hefty half ton.
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Bio: Isaac was born in one of the networked orbital stations that made up the now destroyed Earth super ring, which was a massive military and civilian star base that nearly reached around the planet. His early years were filled with vigorous schooling and physical training, in preparation for the life that his wealthy parents wished. A wish he did not share, at least not completely. While he was coached in several subjects and had a knowledge base that would put less privileged pupils to shame, he was also a gifted in the art of infiltrating computer networks, and that was what put him into the sights of Section 88.
Section 88 abducted him at the age of 17, and his parents never heard from him again. With the near limitless resources of this government agency, he quickly increased his knowledge, gaining PhD's in rocketry, robotics, physics, medical, mathematical and engineering. Becoming a highly regarded scientist in Section 88, assisting in the development of many technologies that would find themselves on the Manticore prototype. As a reward for his contributions, he was granted the rank of Commander in the Earth star navy and was given the position of head engineer of the first Kharon class dreadnought. Shortly after the Kharon was lost due to drive failure and presumably all hands on board, the public discovered the existence of Section 88, after huge backlash, the Earth government was forced to dissolve the agency and destroy any part of it, though several documentations flooded the internet from various hacker groups.
The Kharon managed to survive its maiden journey mostly intact, though 99% of the crew were deceased from cryogenic overload. So the ship stayed untouched for 35 years, before her captain awoke from his much overdue slumber….
Attributes: Cold and calculating, Isaac takes many traits from his newly mechanical body, while keeping his incredible intellect in one piece from his old body. He longs to return to earth, but may have forgotten the human side of him. The ends, justify the means.
ESN (Earth star navy) Kharon class Dreadnought
Name: Kharon
Manufactured in 2985
Wingspan: .9km
Length: 3.46km
Depth: .84km
Appearance:
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Lore: The Kharon is a warship first and only, with planet sundering weapons, self healing armor, a legion of drone soldiers and the capability to store six frigates on exterior docking clamps, it was the pride of Section 88. It was meant to escort colony ships to a new homeworld, but the official documentation cites that the star ship in its current form was far too expensive and technologically unstable to manufacture and thus only exists in Digi-prints and cheesy investor vids. What better way to brush a problem away then to never have it?
Class: Dreadnought
Powerplant:
Harkon dark matter reactor. Two secondary fusion reactors. Emergency solar energy collection web.
Thruster system:
Quad Smith-Karigon mass fusion engines, plasma thrusters and twin overcharged mass fusion reverse engine
Superliminal drives:
Hayden-Marion wormhole generator. Class 6 hyperdrive (Intra-system).
Sensors:
Tachyon detection array. Heat sensors. Lidar
Crew:
800 naval crew, 1200 additional passengers. Evacuation limit of 5800.
Consumable capacity: 3 years.
Offense:
Twenty-four turrets of tri-linked ULTRAMAX particle cannons. They are the primary weapon battery of the Manticore.
Thirty-eight turrets of twin-linked Stormfire gauss autocannons. They have a much higher tracking speed than the Ultramax and can change targets “on the fly” These are the secondary batteries of the Manticore.
Spring launched torpedos. They are mounted along the ventral and dorsal sections on the hull, in between the Ultramax lances. They can be mounted with bomb pumped X-ray warheads or MIRV nuclear warheads. (Cobalt salted or not) Sixty-eight launchers total.
Forty-six broadside mounted laser cannons in a limited traversal mount. These guns are fed by a “master” laser core buried within the ship, therefore allowing the turrets to house the sensitive mirrors and focusing arrays for increased range, power and accuracy. These are tertiary weapons of the Manticore.
Defense:
Shields: Twin layer energy barrier system. Anti-particle/radiation shields
Armor: Prototype liquid metal armor. “Durasteel” Secondary plating.
Point defence: Pulse laser defence cannons. Quad mounted flak artillery.
Hanger:
Three squadrons (14 craft each) of “Blink” drive equipt assault drones. These F-115 ASC(Autonomous strike craft) are armed with swarm missiles and two anti-capitol nuclear cruise missiles. Not atmospheric capable and are ugly as sin.
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Deployable starships are kept on external clamps and consist of four Luna class Destroyers and two Mars class auxiliary ships. (For the purpose of these ships, they have been stripped down for parts and run mining stations in the asteroid belt and fuel harvesting from the local star. Considered AI controlled.
Auxiliary systems:
Infantry: This ship hold two battalions (800 ea) of humanoid droid soldiers. While not fully sentient, their wetware brains are highly advanced and coupled with their inhuman efficiency makes them suitable peacekeepers or to pacify hostile forces. (Most of these soldiers have been refitted and programed into utility models to assist in upkeep of the ship or for mining operations.)
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Zero-G mass fabricator: This unusual machine was installed at the behest of our good Dr to allow the Manticore to resupply far from a starbase if the necessary materials were located. Also could assist in the manufacture of pre-built structures, tools and even weapons for relief efforts.
In addition to the drone fighters, the ship is capable of carrying twelve Sabertooth-dropships. Each has room for twenty-one Cerberus drones and are usually manned by two pilots. Deflector shields and a plethora of heavy weapons allows it act in a gunship role.
Other: Advanced medical facilities, cryogenic sleeper pods, single use drop pods, capital ship AI, deployable bundles of K-rods.
Grasslands system.
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While the planet's atmosphere is still lethal to humans, the system's asteroid belt is mineral rich.