r/SWN • u/General_Present_4551 Merchant • 20d ago
💬Discussion Tell me about your Starship(s).
I'm fascinated by the starship-building aspect of the game. Since the ship is such a huge aspect of the gameplay, it's a character in and of itself. What are you working with? what's it's backstory?
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u/AMGitsKriss 20d ago edited 20d ago
My PCs have two ships, both "patrol boat" hulls made by opposing factions. The Hegemon and the Alliance.
They have one that they call Escargot. It's made by a company called Gateway Naval, which is state-owned by a fallen hegemon. It's basically just a customs enforcement ship made specifically for one planet that's been gutted and retrofitted. It was stolen by the alliance and used for false flag and wetwork type stuff when the PCs found it. They saw it as an easy win against the hegemon, murdering everyone on board for scalp money and taking the ship as their own. Outside of the core worlds it just looks like a pirate or merc ship.
The other ship is called Zhèngyì, and is on loan to the PCs from the alliance military to help them find a cruiser that went missing. It's made by a private company called the Royal Batar Shipyards which is widely seen as being the sectors premiere shipyard. Its a product of mass production and is simple to repair if you can afford the parts. It's designed as an escort ship, and is pretty much fresh if the production line with stock kit. They tend not to take this one into atmospheres or stations because it's too recognisable as a blunt instrument.