Stats
| ST/HP | Hand/SR | HT | Move | Lwt. | Load | SM | Occ | DR | fDR | Range | Cost | Loc | Stall | Total Chase Rolls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 280 | +0/5 | 14 | 2/150 | 250 | 66 | +7 | 4ASV† | 500* | 250 | 200,000, 7 shunts (Rating 2)* | $45M | G4t4rL | 0 | +11 |
Notes
Wrangler as Signature Ship
A Wrangler costs 10 points to purchase a signature ship.
It comes with a single set of modules pre-installed of the player's choice. For +2 points (a total of 12 point), the character has a single additional set of modules that they can use to switch out with the original modules. For +4 point (14 points total), the character has ready access to all Wrangler modules! It's not really relevant where these are stored; as signature gear, the GM should allow the player to get access to a desired module when they want, provided they have a reasonable timespan to secure the modules.
*Nanocomposite Polymer; double DR vs plasma attacks. Has a Force Screen that provides 250 ablative, hardened DR.
Accessories
Redjack Corvette Electronics:
- Ultrascanner Open Mount: 150-mile search range, 15-mile scan range; low probability intercept (detectable at 225 miles); 360° rotation.
- Night Vision Sensors: +9 nightvision, ×8 magnification (up to +3 to aimed attacks, if the vehicle aims for three turns).
- Targeting Computers: +5 to Gunnery projects provided a sensor lock is gained.
- Distortion Jammer: -4 ECM rating.
- Tactical ECM: +1 to dodge missiles.
- Large FTL Communication Array: 30-parsec range.
- Large Holographic Radio: 10,000 mile range (orbital); “palm sized” holographic console.
- Security and Safety: Simple Locks;
- Accommodations: 2 cabins; total possible accommodations for 4. One workshop and one prospecting lab (+1 to all Prospecting rolls)
- Hyperdrive: Rating 2, with sufficient fuel for 7 jumps.
- Ruggedized Hyperium Reactor: 30 days endurance.
The Wrangler has a single “control” section with computerized controls and seats for a pilot and co-pilot. The engine section contains a robotic control station where a robot can directly plug in.
The Wrangler has three turrets with full rotation, contained one MIN-3R mining laser, one SP74-TR Plasma Gatling, and one ST 160 tractor beam.
| Weapon | Dmg | Acc | Range | Ewt. | RoF | Shots | ST | Bulk | Rcl | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIN-3R Mining Laser Module | 5d×15(10) cut inc | 12 | 500/3 mi | 4000 | 1 | 25/5E | M | -10 | 1 | |
| SP74-TR Heavy Plasma Gatling | 6dx15(2) burn ex | 6 | 3mi/8mi | 4000 | 8 | 88/3F | M | -10 | 3 |
Logistics Modules Modules
The Wrangler has room for multiple possible configurations of industrial capabilities. All Wranglers are capable of at least dismantling 10 lbs of material into raw materials per hour and fabricating $500 worth of parts per hour, provided it has sufficient raw materials (such as dismantled parts). Note that this fabricator is not a replicator: it might give you the materials you need to build, say, a blaster, but it cannot assemble it for you.
These modules are large and take at least 4 hours with the right tools to replace, or 8 without the right tools
Salvager Module
40,000 lbs; $3M
Wranglers equipped with Salvager equipment can dismantle up to 700 lbs of junk, scrap and damaged (or perfectly fine) starship parts an hour into raw materials. It can also fabricate $1000 worth of parts per hour. Finally, it has sufficient cargo space to store up to 125,000 lbs (62.5 tons)
Foundry Module
40,000 lbs; $600,000
Wranglers equipped with a Foundry can refine raw asteroidal ores into raw materials at a pace of 700 lbs of extracted metal per hour. It can also fabricate $1000 worth of parts per hour. Finally, it has sufficient cargo space to store up to 125,000 lbs (62.5 tons)
Refinery Module
40,000 lbs; $600,000
Wranglers equipped with a Refinery can refine raw hydrogen, hyperium and ice into refined fuels or atmosphere ready for life support. It can refine hyperium at a pace of 350 gallons an hour. It can store up to 17,000 gallons of hyperium (or other liquid).
Look and Feel
The Wrangler is perhaps the least attractive Redjack vehicle in a great collection of unattractive vehicles. The pilot and co-pilot sit in a boxy cabin and watch space through a large window. The rest of the vehicle resembles a longer, larger box, with a single, round turret on the top, mounted with the plasma gatling, and tractor beam and mining laser mounted on the bottom.
The interior is hardly less practical. The pilots can leave their squat cabin and either go to one of their two cabins or the shared galley between, or the vast work-area between the cabin and the engine room. Here, they can descend to the mining equipment, or ascend to the anti-fighter turret above via a rickety catwalk. Industrial machinery dominates this central area, though this varies depending on how the Wrangler has been equipped: the foundry glows an ominous red, scrapping gear churns and gnashes machinery into raw material, and great gas tanks dominate the refinery. During mining or salvage operations, this part of the ship empties itself of atmosphere, requiring the crew to move about the ship in vacuum, and the feed salvaged parts or extracted ores directly into the machinery from ‘below” the ship. Finally, in the far back, one enters the cluttered, closed-in spaces of the ion thrusters and hyperdrive, as well as the diagnostic bay of the robot in the back. This section also contains a mini-fabricator and a dismantler, for recycling parts to better maintain the Wrangler.
Wranglers obviously serve as a major industrial component in the edges of the Galaxy. Travelers often see them when traveling through asteroid belts or diving into gas giants, or picking scraps from the debris of a battlefield. They also fill up the hangars of space stations and planets at the edges of space, where their “space trucker” crew, often away and unbathed for months at time, pile into cantinas with the spoils of their mining operation. The common man knows them well as working vehicles.
Pirates and miners also understand their utility as logistical vehicles. A single Wrangler can refine enough fuel to refuel a Wildcat in two hours, and carries enough fuel to refuel a full squadron. They can’t rebuild a capital ship on their own, but they often have enough spare parts or raw material to build spare parts (of can salvage it from other damaged ships) to allow for reasonably field repairs even without bringing the ship into “dry dock.” They also play a role as mine-layers, with enough space to carry hundreds of Boomer-Bots, and it can lay them with precision using its tractor beam and control software. Wranglers often do this to protect a claimed asteroid, but will happily do it to protect other strategic sites. Finally, while slow, a Wrangler is tough and can take a pounding from fighters while taking a few with it. The Wrangler is no combat corvette, but can endure in combat if necessary, making it a useful support vehicle for any light, resilient, independent fleet.
