Generation II Airfleet Schematic:
d'Resh Class Transport - Yomiko Custom
The R.L.S. Azure Garda is the first of Ivory's newest class, the d'Resh imperial transport. Designed for speed, the d'Resh class in general provides sustainable travel for diplomatic or scholarly missions. The Garda, as both the prototype for the model and a vessel designed for Yomiko and her bride, bears several features that do not appear in the standard run of d'Resh transports. These features are indicated by asterisks.
The ship itself is narrow, its silhouette like a birds, with wide, back-swept wings.
Speed: 100/200mph
Maneuverability: +3S (Lore 3, Sail 4)
Endurance: A d'Resh transport requires a dedicated hearthstone rated 4 or higher, and the captain must attune to the ship for five motes. The ship has been designed with long expeditions in mind, and requires maintenance only once every five hundred hours. Every hundred hours beyond that runtime lowers the top speed by a cumulative 10% and inflicts a level of Aggravated damage on the hull.
Crew: 1/1
Cargo: The d'Resh is a slim cruiser with room enough to berth four in shared rooms of two. They are outfitted with a kitchen and other basic comforts that allow the ship to serve as its own home.
Armor: 24L/24B
Health Levels: Ux22, Mx10, Cx6, Ix6, D
Weapons: No weapons are standard issue for the d'Resh, but the Azure Garda does have twin medium Essence cannons and four Thunderwolf missiles.
Other Systems:
Rudimentary AI - The Azure Garda is equipped with Ivory's first attempt at a rudimentary AI not derived from Bronzeheart. This AI is a fleeting creature created when the ship is socketed with a hearthstone. It always has a clear bias in thinking based on the nature and aspect of the hearthstone. These AI have no real sense of self, and rather function like newly awakened elementals, able to understand and communicate on rudimentary levels. Still, the AI can handle plotting and navigating the ship in any noncombat situation, freeing the crew for other activities.
Wyldshielding - Not a standard option, but one that Ivory is considering installing on all future d'Resh transports. Wyldshielding is a coating of cold iron, liquified through extreme temperatures and carefully energized by a series of moonsilver conduits. When attuned separate from the ship at a cost of ten motes, it bursts to life, shedding blue moonlight from the entire hull. Shaping attacks that would alter the ship instead deal their user's (Essence) in dice of Bashing damage. When captained by a Lunar, their resonant powers further enhance this shielding--Shaping Attacks launched against the ship by Raksha of lesser Essence than the captain are absorbed and converted--every success the attack would have scored is instead adds an hour to the ship's runtime before requiring maintenance, consuming the dangers of the Wyld to fuel inevitable flight.
