Ship Name: SC Kestrel Mk3
Created by KJ
Base Hull: Scratch built diamond-fiber composite
Drive Type: Speed/Acceleration; the first through conventional means, the second through handwavium enhanced reaction engines that came as spares with Ptichka.
Owner of Record: KJ
Purpose: Racing vehicle / propulsion testbed
Crew:
* KJ (Capt.)
Known Vehicle Quirks:
* Millenium Falcon Syndrome - The Kestrel series have very little in redundant systems, or space, or spare mass. As such, they tend to become horrible maintenance pigs, and various systems stop working. This is usually more annoying than life-threatening, and often can be fixed with percussive maintenance.
* Explosive Overclocking! - The reaction engines on the Mk3 aren't quite pure wavetech; the Mk2 used almost purely hardtech reaction engines, but was completely destroyed in remote control testing. The Mk3 version sometimes has things fail catastrophicially enough to look like explosions or gouts of flame coming out of the wrong place in the engine nacelles. This tends to be very exciting, especially for the pilot.
* Completely Impractical - The design of the ship has two massive engine pods on either side, connected via a short wing, with a small ovoid center hull with a canopy slung behind the wing. Because the center hull is only slightly larger than a coffin, KJ tends to leave it in storage and just stay on the Explain Star.
Known Crew Quirks:
* Jusenkyo: Inadvertant long-term exposure to guacamole handwavium caused a biomod that causes him to change from a 6'2 brown-haired male to a 6'1 redheaded female when doused with cold water. The change conserves mass, and going back and forth from one form to another too often is nastilyunpleasant.
Home Port: Kandor City, Luna
Current Location: Kandor City, Luna
Status: In storage, awaiting manufacture of replacement parts.
Trivia:
* Constructed by the Explain Star's chief engineer during his free time, long before racing around the solar system had caught on. As yet, one of the few craft solely built for it.
* Has yet to actually successfully complete a race, due to the nature of the design.
* Bright red. Obviously.
Created by KJ
Base Hull: Scratch built diamond-fiber composite
Drive Type: Speed/Acceleration; the first through conventional means, the second through handwavium enhanced reaction engines that came as spares with Ptichka.
Owner of Record: KJ
Purpose: Racing vehicle / propulsion testbed
Crew:
* KJ (Capt.)
Known Vehicle Quirks:
* Millenium Falcon Syndrome - The Kestrel series have very little in redundant systems, or space, or spare mass. As such, they tend to become horrible maintenance pigs, and various systems stop working. This is usually more annoying than life-threatening, and often can be fixed with percussive maintenance.
* Explosive Overclocking! - The reaction engines on the Mk3 aren't quite pure wavetech; the Mk2 used almost purely hardtech reaction engines, but was completely destroyed in remote control testing. The Mk3 version sometimes has things fail catastrophicially enough to look like explosions or gouts of flame coming out of the wrong place in the engine nacelles. This tends to be very exciting, especially for the pilot.
* Completely Impractical - The design of the ship has two massive engine pods on either side, connected via a short wing, with a small ovoid center hull with a canopy slung behind the wing. Because the center hull is only slightly larger than a coffin, KJ tends to leave it in storage and just stay on the Explain Star.
Known Crew Quirks:
* Jusenkyo: Inadvertant long-term exposure to guacamole handwavium caused a biomod that causes him to change from a 6'2 brown-haired male to a 6'1 redheaded female when doused with cold water. The change conserves mass, and going back and forth from one form to another too often is nastilyunpleasant.
Home Port: Kandor City, Luna
Current Location: Kandor City, Luna
Status: In storage, awaiting manufacture of replacement parts.
Trivia:
* Constructed by the Explain Star's chief engineer during his free time, long before racing around the solar system had caught on. As yet, one of the few craft solely built for it.
* Has yet to actually successfully complete a race, due to the nature of the design.
* Bright red. Obviously.