So, onto the second part of this little arc, if I am being honest, I want to get through this as quickly as possible.
As I want to get into the next arc after this one, as spoilers, there is going to be a cameo from a more notable character of the SW galaxy in the next one after this.
So, with that out of the let us get on with it, as per usual all credit for this idea goes to Worldwonderer and all those who supported and gave their ideas for this story. Also, all rights go to their owners as I own nothing!
It had taken them some time for Wamoshoool to locate an area to put down the ship.
But in that time John had the Wookiee do flybys of areas of interest. Using the ship's scanners to see what they could pick up.
Needless to say, they quickly found out that there were natives of this world, and they weren't friendly. The fact that they had tried to throw force lighting at their ship only cemented this fact.
As the Wamoshoool had been forced to put the ship into a dive to avoid the attack.
Still, John had told Wamoshoool to get them out of there, which the Wookiee did—gunning the ship's engines to get out of range of the dark siders' attacks.
Once they were safe the two of them then talked about their next move. Wamoshoool wanted to leave as soon as possible, while John wanted to continue the mission despite the risk.
As their flyby had at least given them some valuable information that he wanted to check out.
Needless to say, they had remained at odds until John was forced to make a compromise. Given the circumstances, it was probably the best option.
For he needed the Wookiee knowledge in regard to these, dark siders as he called them.
So once this compromise was made, Wamoshoool took the ship to a spot where he knew that the natives would have trouble reaching it. Then once they were done camouflaging the ship so that it did not stand out so much; John with Wamoshoool in tow started moving their way towards the area of interest that John had detected from their ship's scanners.
John and Wamoshoool had just entered what they assumed was a bunker; as it had become painfully clear to them that whatever the Historian had been hoping to find had either long since sucked into the swamps or been lost to the ravages of time.
So, the two of them hoped that whatever was left on this world was in areas that had been somewhat protected from the ravages of the elements, but not necessarily that of time.
As the two of them continued further into the long-since abandoned tunnels; the fact that they hadn't caved in over the time was nothing short of amazing to the Spartan.
Because he knew that this place had been built over three thousand years ago, and it wasn't even Covenant or Forerunner in origin. But this didn't distract John, as he then heard something moving further down the hallway.
He then turned his head slightly to look at Wamoshoool from the corner of his eye. From what he could see the Wookiee was inspecting his surroundings with the eyepiece he had given him, and thou it was a single eye, John was certain that the alien could see everything as clearly as he could.
So, he and Wamoshoool then waited until whatever had made the sound came into view. Needless to say, it came as something of a surprise when a four-legged insect-looking droid came out from behind the corner.
It's single red eye scanning the hallway while it's swept the upper hallway with its weapons. Needless to say, neither John nor Wamoshoool wasn't expecting to find anything working down here, let alone a security droid.
Still, this was both a good and bad sign; good in terms of that some technology had survived the passage of time, while also showing that the bunkers' security systems were still online.
This could prove to be an issue, but for right now John and Wamoshoool needed to figure out just how they were doing to deal with the droid, as Wamoshoool then grunted something.
"What is it?" John inquired, as he was too busy waiting for the droid to focus on what the alien was saying.
At which point the large arm of the beast pointed to what John assumed was a security turret. The last thing he wanted to be dealing with given the situation, because if it was still functioning and the blaster output powerful enough then there was the real risk that a couple of blaster shots in the wrong place might bring down the whole tunnel. Which for obvious reasons both of them would like to avoid.
The two of them spent a couple of minutes trying to come up with a plan to both deal with the war droid and the turret; while they were doing this, apparently done its patrol of the lower areas. That same droid started making its way towards them.
Its signal red eye glowing in the darkness moved closer towards the pair, at which point John knew they were out of time.
Knowing this he acted, hoping that Wookiee was a good shot; John charged the war droid.
To which it opened fire with its twin-mounted blasters, to which the Spartan rolled under the attack and into the war droid, knocking it clean off its legs.
Never been designed to deal with such an attack, the war droid found itself unable to get up. This left it wide open, John then reached out, grabbed the droid's head, and all in one motion tore its head clean off its body.
But by the time John had finished dispatching the droid, the ceiling-mounted security turret swung around and targeted him.
But before the turret could fire; Wamoshoool with a charged bow-caster in hand, unleashed the fully charged weapon into the turret destroying it completely.
Thankfully, there was no secondary explosion with the tibanna gas burning off instead.
Then taking a moment, John and Wamoshoool waited to see if any other security droids came to investigate what had taken place.
None came, as the two of them quickly started moving again, now weary of potentially still active security that might prove a problem.
It had taken them some time but John and Wamoshoool had finally reached what they had been hoping to find.
A command center, one that had been equipped with several large computers. Which if they could access could provide Chiefs with a wealth of information that the Republic didn't want them to have.
Such as old star charts, though outdated, might show John some of the Sith Empire's shipyards had been located. Because he had plans for them if he could confirm their existence.
But such plans would have to wait as the two of them first had to deal with any lingering security measures that might still be in place.
As their earlier encounters had shown, a great deal more equipment in the bunker had survived than anyone would've suspected. Even so, that didn't mean that everything had survived the passage of time.
But after a quick scan, the two of them found that the whole room was seemingly without any of the security measures that they had encountered earlier.
Still not convinced, John then threw a non-active grenade into the room.
This got no response from any security systems; at which point John slowly but surely made his way into the room.
Once he was certain that it was secure and no security systems were going to be active, did he wave Wookiee to his side.
As the Spartan was now standing in front of the only thing notable within this room.
What John assumed to be the bunkers' large and bulky main computer, to which Wamoshoool without so much as a word approached the computer.
"See if you can get it working," John then said to the Wookiee, who was already seeing if there was any way that he could fix the computer.
Still from what little he could see, the Spartan had very little hope that at the very least they would be able to scavenge something that would make this trip worth it even if they couldn't fulfill the Historian's original request.
He knew that the old man would understand the situation when he explained it to him.
Because anything that had been here before from the Mandalorians was now either lost in the swamps, swallowed by the ground beneath them, or simply the ravages of time.
If not, then he would show him the captured footage from his armour's systems to make him understand just what the Spartan had been dealing with. John was certain that it would be enough to show him that this had been a dead end.
But he could worry as to how he was going to explain his failure later, as John then heard, much to his relief, the sounds of the ancient computer system came to life, as its lights flashed weakly with barely any power.
To which Wamoshoool then informed the Chief that he did not expect the computer to last very long. This was fine for the Spartans. As John only needed the computers to last long enough so that B.A.M could extract everything from the system.
Hopefully making this trip worth it in the process.
So, without a single word, John plugged the AI into the system. All they could do now was wait, while doing so the two of them searched the room but found little of value. Still, it did turn up some things, such as a couple of Holodisks and date-tapes.
John stashed away to see if Cortana could make anything of them. But after that, he went back over and checked B.A.M.'s progress. At which point he saw the data-chip flashing softly.
An indicator that the AI had finished retrieving all the relevant data. At which point John yanked B.A.M.'s AI chip out of the socket, as moments later the computer then lost all power and died.
Taking a moment to inspect the chip, John then plugged the chip back into his helmet and started going through the data that B.A.M. had collected. At which point John found something that he thought was worth pursuing, but there was one major problem with it.
Their prize was located somewhere on the planet's moon.
With the deal done between MandalMotars and Misriah Technologies, Roroa had returned to the place where she had first met Cortana.
All the while trying to figure out just what she was going to say to her. Roroa wasn't exactly happy about how the meeting had turned out.
So Roroa took her time before entering the office, silently wondering if Cortana would be her in person this time.
'Maybe she doesn't think I'm that important to be her in person,' Roroa then thought to herself.
As she was a minor figure in her Clan, so it wouldn't have been a surprise if this was the case.
So needless to say, when Roroa saw the blue hologram of Cortana appear in the offices chair, she couldn't help but feel as if her suspicions were confirmed.
But Roroa didn't say as much, as she reported the outcome of her meeting with Drsadvata.
"Cortana, it's done," Roroa stated, as she wasn't sure what else to say.
Honestly, there were a couple of things that she wanted to say but considering that those things wouldn't do anything to help her, Roroa simply bit her tongue and waited for her response.
"Oh, were there any issues?" Cortana then asked her
'Some.' Roroa thought to herself.
Such as the fact that Roroa felt that she was set up to take a job that she was grossly unqualified for. This once again made her wonder just what had singled her out for this job.
As all she had done was fill in a thing if flimsy.
"There was a... condition for him accepting your proposal," Roroa stated.
Because she wanted Cortana to ask her instead of telling her honestly.
"Let me guess, he wanted you to run the joint company," Cortana said, as she had fully expected this.
Roroa was thankful that she had her helmet on this time, as Roroa knew that she wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face.
"Something like that…" Roroa admitted.
All the while she couldn't help but shake the feeling that he had been set up to be trapped in this situation.
But there was truly little Roroa could do about this now, as she had no way out of this. Especially once her buir heard what had taken place, as she knew that he would pressure her to uphold both her word and the deal.
'So, there's nothing I can kriffing do about it,' Roroa thought to herself almost not hearing what Cortana said in reply.
"-can talk in detail about your position later, as I need your help with something." Cortana then said getting Roroa's attention,
"What might that be?" Roroa then inquired, not sure if she wanted to help Cortana with anything else today.
"I'll explain once you're in the elevator," Cortana stated as her hologram then winked out.
Then muttering a curse under her breath Roroa wondered if this was some kind of test. Still, she made her way to the elevator that she had used to get there.
"Okay Cortana, what is this about?" Roroa asked aloud once she had entered the elevator.
"One of my contacts came across a rather interesting droid. One that I'm certain you might be familiar with, does HK-47 ring any bells." Cortana then asked Roroa as she started the elevator down.
This immediately got a strong reaction to what she had been asked by her employer.
"HK-47 is here!?" Roroa was completely shocked by what Cortana had told her.
Most aruetiise would not have known about the infamous assassin droid, but considering the relationship it had with the Jedi Revan, and his connection with Mandalorian history. Most Mando'ade were more than familiar with the infamous assassin droid, especially Roroa herself.
"I take it you know him. Anyway, if it makes you feel any better, he's currently powered down and locked up in a secure facility. Also, I made sure to remove his hands and legs." Cortana informed Roroa, as the AI wasn't taking any chances with the assassin droid.
This was because even Cortana found that she had been unable to access the droid's systems. As even powered down his thought matrix seemed to give him a strong protection in preventing tampering with his systems.
This of course only made Cortana even more curious. As she had rarely encountered such systems before, and because of that she wanted to learn more; safely of course.
Because Cortana had looked up HK's history, and needless to say if she was going to reactive him then she wanted Roroa to be with her.
Mostly because she knew that the two of them would most likely be working closely together if things went the way the AI was hoping.
"So, what are you planning to do, talk to him?" Roroa asked nervously.
"Why, actually yes," Cortana then said as if it wasn't a big deal.
This only made Roroa worry all the more as the elevator doors then opened and Roroa entered into the room where the infamous assassin droid was being held.
Roroa then passed through three security checkpoints before she reached the room where HK was being held.
When Roroa saw the room, it did something to relieve her fears. As HK's body as Cortana had stated, was his armless, legless body currently locked down while being contained with a ray shield.
Roroa then realized there was little to fear with going along with Cortana's plan, at least until HK-47 escaped. Roroa knew that the assassin droid would do so eventually.
But until then Roroa saw no reason to deny Cortana from doing this. Still, the moment she took her position as CEO, Roroa was going to lobby Cortana hard for her to scrap the assassin droid once they got what they needed from it.
She then turned to face the hologram of Cortana and said the words that Roroa knew that she would probably come to regret.
"Okay Cortana, power him up," With that Cortana switched on the power supply that would reactive the assassin droid.
This did its job as the rust-red eyes turned from a dark brown to a golden yellow as HK-47 started to go through his usual power-up routine.
"Statement: System's check completed, but there seemed to be an issue with…" HK-47 trailed off when he finally realized that he wasn't alone.
Standing at least five feet away from him was a signal human female, a Mandalorian female if he had to guess, but there was also something beside her, a hologram of a blue woman.
Which slightly confused the assassin droid, but that didn't bother him too much. HK knew that he had to find a way to escape this situation and return to his master.
For the assassin droid had been close to finding him before some meatbag Sith got in his way and crashed the ship. So, he had to assume that these two were associated with that meatbag in some way.
"Threatening Statement: Release me now and I will ensure that you and your meatbag master's death will be as painless as possible. Failure to do so will result in your immediate termination upon my escape."
"Oh, I don't think so."
Honestly, at this point, Roroa wasn't sure what Cortana was hoping to gain by antagonizing the infamous droid. As in her mind, there was more to be gained by simply taking HK-47 apart than risking it getting free and rampaging across Concordia.
Because she was certain that eventually, her fellow Mando'ade would be able to put the droid down. It merely became the question of just how much damage HK would do before he was finally melted down.
"So, what are you planning to do with him?" Roroa asked nervously.
She just had to know what Cortana had in mind by doing this.
"I merely want to talk to him, that's all." There was obviously more to that Roroa knew.
But she was certain that HK had picked up on this as well, which was reflected in his next comment.
"Mockery: If I wished to speak to you transparent one, then I would've asked you to attach my arms to do so. As I speak through my assassin protocol," Which of course meant that he would let his blaster do the talking.
As HK had no other interest than to attempt to return to his master's side.
"Oh, and here I thought you would want to know what happened since you've been offline," Cortana said, trying to gauge HK's reaction.
"Annoyed statement: If I wanted to know, I would've asked," HK said dejectedly.
As he wasn't in the mood to play this one's games. But if these meatbags were going to give him free information then he wasn't going to say no. Besides HK knew that in their attempt to glottal, there was a higher chance that they would say something that would help him escape later on.
"Then I take it that you don't want to know about the HK line being scrapped?" Cortana then asked.
This was said to get a certain reaction from the assassin droid. Something that it did was extremely effective, as it got a response that was never heard from HK before.
"What." This was the simple reply from the assassin droid.
As sure he could understand that those meatbags would forget about him, as even HK knew that eventually, he would fall out of the spotlight. Which suited the assassin droid just fine, but to hear that they had forgotten, of not our right abandoned the HK line. This was something that HK-47 hadn't accounted for, as he had calculated that his line should've continued well into the galaxy's future given that meatbags no matter the era they lived needed something killed.
So, HK needed to know just what had transpired in the time he had been offline. This unfortunately meant that he had to deal with the rather annoying transparent one.
"Oh, missed that fact did we," Cortana said a little too smugly for Roroa's tastes.
As Roroa feared that she would provoke HK.
"Irritated statement: I wasn't around to know of my lines termination; needless to say, it came as an unpleasant surprise." HK didn't mix words.
As this was indeed an unpleasant surprise, HK-47 had calculated that the HK line should've at least gone on until at least the seventh fifth mode, at which point he expected another assassin droid model to appear that would render the HK line obsolete.
This should've at least given his line of assassin droids at least several thousand years at the very most.
"Anything else you want to ask now, now that I got your attention?" Cortana then asked, even though she knew the answer.
This made HK only hate her even more. Still, he needed the information she would provide him with, so he simply had to put up with her for that moment. At least until he could get his hands on a good blaster and pay her back for this.
"Query: My I ask what the meatbags of the galaxy were doing while I was… offline." HK then asked.
He needed to know more about the current state of the galaxy so he could act appropriately. Because if what the transparent one was saying was true, then it was quite possible that his master had been dead for some time now.
Barring some technology or that annoying thing called the 'force', HK-47 might be truly a being out of time.
For her Roroa stood in stunned silence as Cortana explained what had happened in the last four thousand years. Still, even though she summarized some parts of it, Roroa had to admit it was a rather accurate retelling.
At least with the parts, Roroa was familiar with, as she couldn't confirm the accuracy of anything Cortana said about events that she was completely unfamiliar with, still it seemed to be enough of HK as Cortana started wrapping up her history lesson.
"-so basically, the Jedi and the Republic have been in a golden age that ended some time ago." Cortana finished explaining to HK.
At which point things finally fell into place for him.
"Understanding: Ah, so I see that those pseudo-pacifies took control of the galaxy. This would explain many things," HK stated simply.
For his master had seen what the galaxy would look like under the rule of those, pseudo-pacifies. As such he now understood as to why the HK line had been discontinued.
Which lead HK naturally to his next line of questions.
"Query: If I may, what would were planning to do with my chase?" The assassin droid then inquired.
HK had a suspicion of what they were planning and honestly, if they were he would have something to ask of them.
"For the moment I'm trying to decide,"
"Annoyed statement: I wasn't talking to you transparent one, I was talking to the organic meatbag beside you," HK obviously referring to Roroa who had been rather quiet during this whole conversation.
Not sure what she could add. But seeing as the spotlight was suddenly on her, Roroa saw that she had to step up and negotiate with the infamous assassin droid.
"For the moment we're collecting data on it. After which we'll hopefully be able to build our own HK models." "And basic combat models of course," Cortana added this part at the end.
As she could see a great amount of potential in the HK platform. She was already getting ideas for something that had been long since been thought impossible back home.
But then again there was a good reason why they hadn't this project had been long since abandoned.
Still, Cortana could worry about such things later, as she needed to focus on getting her preferred outcome from this conversation.
"Unnecessary comment: I suspected as much," HK admitted.
He could guess as much from his current state, alongside the fact that his senses could tell that he was being scanned every couple of seconds. So, it was obvious what they wanted to do to him.
But since HK knew what they were planning he could use this to his advice.
"So, what do you want from me then?" Roroa then asked.
She could sense that there was some opportunity here. That opportunity was completely blindsided Roroa as she had never expected it to come from the assassin droid, as he then explained what he wanted.
"Clarification: I merely wish to negotiate with you the terms of my new contract." The rust-coloured droid stated simply.
As he had spent enough time being seen as a walking blaster for organic masters the assassin droid felt that he had earned the right to choose who he served, if not what he wanted to do.
So, if he had to negotiate with these two to get him to release him, then so be it.
Besides, he could always blast them later if it became a problem at any rate. This of course would be the preferred option, as it would ensure that he tied up loose ends. Also, if he did it with the meatbag then he could avoid having to deal with the transparent one, as he found her to be rather irritating, to say the least.
"I'm actually surprised by this, and if you don't mind me asking. Why would you want to enter into a contract with me?" Roroa then asked.
As this was extremely unusual behavior for a droid, but then again given that she was dealing with the droid personally built by Revan she shouldn't have been surprised.
"Explanation: I merely wish to ensure that my legacy is carried on, as other I wish to avoid having sub-standard duplicates of me running all over the galaxy," HK stated simply.
As HK-47 remembered the HK-50 line, as such he was going to have a say in how his successors were to see the world.
Something which he had failed with the HK-51 line.
So, if that meant that there would be sub-standard duplicates of him running around the galaxy then so be it.
Besides those units, in the end, they wouldn't be of HK line; but would instead be used merely cheap bantha fodder to fight and be destroyed on whatever backwater world these meatbags were sending them to.
So as much as HK might not like the idea, it would have to be the price he would be forced to pay if he wished to ensure that the mistakes of the past were not repeated.
"So, in what way are you planning to do this? As I don't imagine that you copying, you're programming into their bodies." Cortana said.
She suspected that HK had something else in mind, a suspicion that was proven correct by his next reply.
"Clarification: I merely wish to train the assassin droids, personally," HK states much to both Roroa and Cortana's surprise.
Neither of them had been expecting such a request from HK, which of course made Roroa ask the obvious question.
"Why would you care about that? As cannot you just program what you want into them?" Roroa then asked, not understanding what HK was getting from training the new HK assassin droids in person rather than programming it into them.
"Mockery: Oh, you meatbags always miss what's under your olfactory receptors," The assassin droid said smugly as Cortana suddenly realized what he was getting at.
"You want to pass on philosophy, don't you?" Cortana then said, getting what the droid was saying.
"Confirmation: Indeed, I do transparent one." There was a hint of smugness in HK's voice as he said this.
"I think I'm starting to like you, rusty." Cortana then stated.
The AI would admit that that she was now extremely interested in what HK wanted to pass on to the next generation of HK assassin droids.
"Objective: I am not rusty; my system is running at full capacity; though my mobility is compromised," HK said as Roroa was left wondering just how she had ended up in this mess in the first place.
Mando'a dictionary:
Buir - Father
Aruetiise - Traitors, foreigners, outsiders
Reclaimer Shipyard report: Seven weeks after the overthrow of the New Mandalorian administration.
In the last few months, we've been rather busy, as the yards have been working overtime.
Party to meet demand from the sector security forces, but also to meet outside contacts.
Some of our contacts come from our allies, while some of the ships manufactured here go onto the Republic. The reason why this is?
Well with the lack of available dockyards, and the need for ships, MEAT and other companies under its umbrella have been asked to produce ships for the Republic.
But there are rumours that these contacts might be broken off due to growing tensions between the Republic/Jedi and the Reclaimers who pretty much represent the Mandalorian sector at this point, especially once the New Mandalorian government fell into chaos after it was overthrown.
Hence why this report, as they want to take stock of the current state of our dockyards and what we have in production at the moment. Given the state of the kriffing galaxy, it is understandable.
MEAT contacted ships:
Arquitens-class light cruiser - Was made as an emergency response to serve new CIS Class ships. Originally made in small numbers, with the help of MEAT, the Arquitens-class was meant to act as a screening ship for large vessels, but more importantly, its main role was to act as an anti-ship screening vessel for dedicated anti-starfighter vessels.
Thou the Arquitens can play this role, it lacks any real ability to due to its upscaled weaponry, even so, its shields and hull strength allow it to survive for longer than it should, which is why it has become a mainstay in the Republic Navy.
Acclamator A-B-C classes - The Acclamator is a warship originally developed and created by Rothana Heavy Engineering before the beginning of the CW. Due to the war, there had been three variants that had been created by MEAT due to circumstances.
The A-class variant is the classic Acclamator, with no modifications compared to the B-class and C-class. The B-class variant is oriented to be a heavy assault cruiser with more shipborne weapons, heavier armour plating, and more powerful energy shields than the A-class. The C-class is a more carrier-role-focused variant. With large sections of the ship are dedicated to storing and servicing starfighters, shuttles, and ground vehicles. It's mostly sold to PDFs and PMCs unable to afford a large, dedicated carrier-type ship.
So needless to say, we will probably see the Acclamator in the galaxy for decades to come.
Venator A-class - Original design licensed for MEAT sub-contracted mass production to help KDY meet the Republic's order for more Venator-class ships. Keeps all original design specifications of the Ventor-class with no change whatsoever. While officially made for the GAR Navy, an unknown number of them have been produced for sale to the Council of Neutral Systems, Republic-loyalist PDFs and insurgents in the Mid and Outer Rim, as well as supplied to other allies of the Reclaimers.
Venator A2: Higher security clearance required to access this file
Venator A3: Higher security clearance required to access this file
Venator B-class - Battleship variant for the Reclaimer Navy; notably armed with numerous batteries of missiles and proton torpedo launchers, multiple turbolaser turrets, and multiple forward and broadside medium and heavy turbolaser cannons. Later sold to the Council of Neutral Systems and Republic-loyalist PDFs and insurgents in the Mid and Outer Rim. The B-class variant was designed to deceive and lure enemy ships into a false sense of security as most Venators at the time were mainly carrier-focused and under-gunned. Its multiple fake hanger doors hide additional shipborne weapons that are deployed the moment the ship is engaged or about to engage enemy ships.
Venator C-class - A Colony support vessel variant of the Venator; sold by MEAT to the Republic to help evacuate refugees from the Outer and Mid Rim during the early years of TCW. In addition to ferrying refugees to designated worlds for refugee settlement, they are used to carrying equipment such as prefabricated colony starter units and ground bases, hydroponics and other facilities. A handful of Venator C-class ships are capable of setting up a self-sufficient colony settlement in a few months. Many more are being sold to the Council of Neutral Systems and Republic-loyalist PDFs and insurgents in the Mid and Outer Rim.
Venator D-class - Sometimes called the Doubledecker Venator because it looks like one Venator stacked on top of another, the Venator D-class supercarrier variant was built originally for the Reclaimer Navy. It is also later sold to the Council of Neutral Systems and Republic-loyalist PDFs and insurgents in the Mid and Outer Rim. Compared to the Venator A-class variants, the height of the C-class has doubled from 268m to 536m - doubling the capacity of starfighters, starfighter-bombers, gunships, and shuttles.
Next up are our two bestselling ships, each having its own strengths and weaknesses;
Terminus-class Destroyer - A recreation of a warship from the Sith Empire; it was mass-produced prior to TCW. Being a more firepower-oriented ship, the Terminus despite being one of MEAT's cheapest ships as they are multipurpose, small in size and tonnage is best for patrolling, policing, and security duties as to allow so larger more armed ships can be freed up for more important tasks.
As the Terminus works rather well so long as its endurance isn't tested, as unlike the Valor, the Terminus is more meant to grab and crash rather than endure.
Valor-class Cruiser - A recreation of a warship from the Old Republic; it was mass-produced by MEAT next to the Terminus prior to TCW. It is one of MEAT's cheapest ships as they are multipurpose, small in size and tonnage and at least for ones used by Reclaimer Navy. It like the Terminus is primarily crewed by droids which reduces the amount of living personnel.
Unlike the Terminus, the Valor had better cargo space available which allowed it to perform long-range patrolling for long when in compared to the Terminus, meaning that it can act more independently to fill many gaps where the Terminus falls short, also allowing larger ships to be freed up for more important tasks. Both ships are sold to PDFs, New Mandalore govt, Council of Neutral Systems, other neutral planets, and PMCs and can be found in most fleets these days.
Prowler Class: Higher security clearance required to access this files
Harrower-class Dreadnoughts - A recreation of a warship from the Sith Empire; it was one of the few mass-produced battleships prior to TCW. While mainly used by the Mandalorian Reclaimers, a few of them can be found in the hands of law enforcement units and the New Mandalorian government. Also to note, certain Mandalorian Houses and Clans were able to purchase the ship, with the Death Watch even gaining possess a few Harrower-class Dreadnoughts in their small fleet of ships.
Alongside those contact ships, we have served original designs as very stages of design and completion for the Mandalorian defence fleets and available to only our closest allies to purchase.
Bungie-class multipurpose modular multipurpose super-freighter/warship - Is available to all buyers, they're like kriffing wamprats, you can't go anywhere in the galaxy these days without running into one of them.
Satine Kryze-class patrol light corvette - A 130m in length, this ship is in similar tonnage weight range of the CR70, CR90, and Consular-class. It's Lightly armed and armoured, smaller in size and tonnage acting more as a gunboat vessel that was proposed and designed to supplement and replace the failed Kom'rk-class fighter/transport as the main patrol craft of the Mandalorian Guard.
However early reports say that it has proven poorly suited for the role and can easily be overwhelmed and even outgunned by starfighter-sized spacecraft. However, it has found a nish as an orbital-to-surface attack craft.
Many see this craft as an acknowledgement of the Chief's support for the New Mandalorian Govt, while on the other hand, it could be meant as an insult, mocking her pacifist ideals by naming such a ship after her, and its weak nature being an allegory to the weak and inept leadership of her government.
This next ship Cortana claims are modelled after older ships. So, for the sake of not dragging this out, I'll give the class and the inspiration whatever the designers took when they made these ships.
Lesser-class escort heavy corvette - Modeled after Scholte-class missile corvette and Lancer-class fast-attack corvette.
Preserver-class light frigate - Modeled after Charon-class light frigate
Hammerborn-class heavy frigate - Modeled after Paris-class heavy frigate
Tarre Vizsla-class light destroyer - Aesthetically resembles and is modelled after the Halberd-class light destroyer and Gundam Seed's Agamemnon-class ship? (Whatever in the nine Corellion hells that is?)
Destroyer-class heavy destroyer - Aesthetically resembles and is modeled after Hillsborough-class heavy destroyer
Uniter-class light cruiser - Basie on the idea of a WW2-era Deutschland class cruiser/pocket-battleship, so you get the Uniter-class light cruiser. (Whatever WW2 is? Shab if I know.)
Avenger-class heavy cruiser - Modeled after Marathon-class heavy cruiser.
Restore-class battlecruiser - Named after Mand'alor the Restore, aesthetically resembles and is modeled after Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser (sometimes referred to as the Valiant-class battlecruiser).
Vindicated-class light battleship - Modeled after the Harrower-class dreadnought with aesthetics of an Iowa-class battleship.
Jaster Mereel-class heavy battleship - Resembles the some designs that the Chiss are rumoured to field, with heavy inspiration and from aesthetics of WW2-era Yamamoto-class battleship. (The CEO seems to love the WW2 for some kriffing reason)
Binder-class light carrier - Aesthetically resembles and is modelled after the Epoch-class heavy carrier.
Fett-class battlecarrier - Was originally a Jaster Mereel-class heavy battleship named Jango Fett, but the partially complete hull has been ordered to be converted to a carrier. Apparently, it's similar to the IJN Shinano (From WW2 please Kriffing stop) but the Fett-class retains the heavy armor protection and firepower of a battleship while able to perform its secondary role as a carrier.
It somewhat resembles the Thanatos-class heavy battleship, there are also rumours going around that this will become its own ship class if the trials go well.
Conqueror-class heavy carrier - Aesthetically resembles and is modeled after Artemis-class battlecruiser.
Resurrector-class supercarrier - The ship class was named as such after Spar gave up his claim as Mandalore… It was a kriffing bad day when that happened, as the whole sector went to pot. Aesthetically resembles and is modeled after the Orion-class assault carrier.
Indomitable-class Defensive Star Dreadnought - The first Mandator II-class Star Dreadnoughts is a point of pride for us. As it was stolen by the Protectors and was used as their flagship for a time. But was handed over to the the Reclaimers after the Protectors were disbanded, as of right now I'm uncertain as to where the ship is, as last I heard it was involved in some battle before contact was lost.
Many speculate it was briefly sent to a hidden shipyard for repairs. But whatever the case, should the Indomitable return, it will help break the back of any Dar'manda fleets that stand in its way.
Also, rumours are that there are one or two more of these ships in reserve. But that is just a rumour, anyway, that all-confirmed ships are being built under MEAT and dependent companies.
Now onto the joint-venture project-produced ships, as they are to be created between MEAT and other shipyard companies that have yet to be determined.
Project codes names and designations
Battleship VC
Keyes-class SD
Supercarriers code names "Destiny" and "Serenity"
Cole-class SC
Johnson-class SD
Noble-class LC
Ackerson-class HC
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That is all the information I've been able to gather so far, but from the look of things it seems that Reclaimers are here to stay for some time yet.
Also, another rumour I heard was that apparently, they captured a subjugator class heavy cruiser that's been reworked, the project has been given the designation: Oman. But that's between you and me.
That is all she wrote, hope that you all enjoyed it.
As it was a pain for me to write, I do not know why. Then again, I was struggling with certain situations I felt that I had to include yet was not sure how to write them
HK's talking patterns being one of them, also if someone can give me a list of what he said before to help me expand the list. It would help everyone involved. Also, an apology if there are more spelling or grammar mistakes than usual, as I finally decided that it was time to call it and made the push to post this chapter.
That and the fact that SW is truly dead, sigh, anyway no point in being angry, as this story will be to what was, that and if I ready wanted to take potshots as SW corpse I could just put Pelleaon into the sequel era and have him clean house. Anyway that's enough rambling, so apologies again, as this will hopefully lead on to bigger and better things in the future, as not every chapter will be a home run. And with that in mind, I'll see you all next time, and until then have a good one.