Babylon 5 Psi Corps Shadowcloak Escort

Name: Shadowcloak
Craft: Psi Corps Shadowcloak Escort
Type: Escort
Scale: Capital
Length: 158 meters (estimated)
Skill: Capital Ship Pilot
Crew: 18; Skeleton: 2/+10
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 6D; Capital Ship Gunnery: 4D+2; Capital Ship Piloting: 6D; Communications: 6D; Sensors: 6D; Starship Gunnery: 4D+2
Passengers: 15
Cargo Capacity: 30 metric tons
Consumables: 3 months
Maneuverability: 2D+2
Space: 6
Hull: 2D+1
Sensors

• Passive: 20 / 0D+2
• Scan: 40 / 1D+1
• Search: 60 / 1D+2
• Focus: 2 / 2D+1

Weapons

• 2 Twin-Linked Medium Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: forward
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1-3/7/13
Damage: 8D+1

• 2 Light Pulse Cannons

Fire Arc: 1 port, 1 starboard
Crew: 1
Scale: starfighter
Skill: starship gunnery
Fire Control: 1D+2
Space Range: 1/3/6
Damage: 4D+2

• 2 Mk I Interceptors

Fire Arc: 1 forward, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capial ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Space Range: 1-2/4/8
Damage:

• Offensive: 0D+2
• Intercept: 2D

• Fusion Bomb (See Notes)

Fire Arc: all
Crew: 1
Scale: death star
Skill: capial ship gunnery
Range: none
Rate of fire: 1
Damage: 6D

• Grapple

Fire Arc: turret
Crew:1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D+2
Range: 50 meters
Strength: 3D

Miscellaneous:

• Artificial Gravity: no
• Crew: 18

• Officers: 2
• Pilots: 2
• Sensor Operators: 4
• Crewmen: 10

• Average Crew Experience Level: Psi Corps Veteran
• Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to detect ship)
• Fusion Engine

Complement:

• Light Shuttle: 2

Notes:

• Hyperspace: While in Hyperspace the Sensors bonuses and ranges are doubled if operated by Telepaths. The Stealth rating is also doubled while in Hyperspace IF the ship is piloted by Telepaths.
• Fusion Bomb: This is a one-use weapon, always centred on the Shadowcloak itself.

Description: Spy ships of the highest caliber, the Shadowcloak was an experimental vessel used by Psi Security to telepathically ‘eavesdrop’ on other hyperspace traffic without being seen or noticed. It looks at first glance – even electronically – like a Tethys police cutter, but packs a much different punch inside of it. Crewed wholly by telepaths trained in the ability to pick up on ambient thought patterns floating through hyperspace, each Shadowcloak is a mobile listening post.

Armed to protect themselves if the need calls for it, each one of the 15 Shadowcloaks are far more prepared to escape into realspace or deeper into hyperspace to avoid capture. Everything about the vessel is made to be anonymous and impossible to ‘take alive’. Supporting no outward symbols or ship designations, transmitting no real registry, able to steer far off beacon where no sane ship would follow and equipped with an atomizing fusion bomb in its hold; no Shadowcloak has ever been successfully captured.

Source:

• Babylon 5: Ships of the Galaxy (pages 146-148)
• thedemonapostle