Meritech Shrike-Class Raider
Dimensions: 2 km long, 0.25km abeam at fins approx.
Mass: 4.5 megatonnes approx.
Crew: 15000 crew, approx.
Accel: 5.9 gravities max sustainable acceleration.
The Meritech clans were an infamous rabble of voidborn stargypsies, wanderers and scavengers, who came to reside in the border zone worlds of the Merates cluster during the final years of the 40th millennia. Initially content to forage for parts for their ramshackle fleets from ruined space hulks drifting into their territory, within a century they had embarked upon a lifestyle of piracy, and routinely attacked vessels passing between the Calixis and Ixaniad sectors. In 211.M41 mere banditry gave way to allout war when Meritech raiders ambushed a trio of Battlefleet Calixis Sword-class frigates. Only one Sword escaped.
This plunged the entire region into a fifteen-year war which only concluded when Battlefleet Calixis crushed the Meritech Clan strongholds. Subsequent Inquisitorial investigations established, it is said, sinister tech-heretics behind the events.
Many of the deadly raider vessels utilised by the clanfleet survived, sold to pirates and other rogues to ensure safe passage for the upper echelons of the renegade clanlords. The vessel designated a Shrike class is typical of the Meritech ships of the period, and indeed formed the main strength of its bandit squadrons. A lithe, incredibly advanced vessel that utilised heretical technologies unknown to the Adeptus Mechanicus, few Rogue Traders are able to maintain these ships at their original performance levels, given their bizarrely innovative heretech, but they remain dangerous fast raiders.
Speed: 10
Detection: +20
Armour: 16
Space: 35
Weapon Capacity: Dorsal 1, Prow 1
Manoeuvrability: +25
Hull Integrity: 30
Turret Rating: 2
SP: 34
Advanced Cogitator Linkage: Shrikes include kilometres of sophisticated linkage cabling, which at one time allowed a highly advanced core cogitator to exercise extreme control over the systems. Although the heretical cogitator is long removed, the linkage remains. This vessels gains a +5 bonus to all Ballistic Skill Tests to fire the ship’s weaponry.
Mass: 4.5 megatonnes approx.
Crew: 15000 crew, approx.
Accel: 5.9 gravities max sustainable acceleration.
The Meritech clans were an infamous rabble of voidborn stargypsies, wanderers and scavengers, who came to reside in the border zone worlds of the Merates cluster during the final years of the 40th millennia. Initially content to forage for parts for their ramshackle fleets from ruined space hulks drifting into their territory, within a century they had embarked upon a lifestyle of piracy, and routinely attacked vessels passing between the Calixis and Ixaniad sectors. In 211.M41 mere banditry gave way to allout war when Meritech raiders ambushed a trio of Battlefleet Calixis Sword-class frigates. Only one Sword escaped.
This plunged the entire region into a fifteen-year war which only concluded when Battlefleet Calixis crushed the Meritech Clan strongholds. Subsequent Inquisitorial investigations established, it is said, sinister tech-heretics behind the events.
Many of the deadly raider vessels utilised by the clanfleet survived, sold to pirates and other rogues to ensure safe passage for the upper echelons of the renegade clanlords. The vessel designated a Shrike class is typical of the Meritech ships of the period, and indeed formed the main strength of its bandit squadrons. A lithe, incredibly advanced vessel that utilised heretical technologies unknown to the Adeptus Mechanicus, few Rogue Traders are able to maintain these ships at their original performance levels, given their bizarrely innovative heretech, but they remain dangerous fast raiders.
Speed: 10
Detection: +20
Armour: 16
Space: 35
Weapon Capacity: Dorsal 1, Prow 1
Manoeuvrability: +25
Hull Integrity: 30
Turret Rating: 2
SP: 34
Advanced Cogitator Linkage: Shrikes include kilometres of sophisticated linkage cabling, which at one time allowed a highly advanced core cogitator to exercise extreme control over the systems. Although the heretical cogitator is long removed, the linkage remains. This vessels gains a +5 bonus to all Ballistic Skill Tests to fire the ship’s weaponry.
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