Babylon 5 Drakh Entire Shield Escort
Name: Shield Escort
Craft: Drakh Entire Shield Escort
Type: Escort
Scale: starfighter
Length: 10 meters (estmiated)
Skill: space transports
Crew: 2; Skeleton: 1/+5
Crew Skill: Astrogation: 6D+2; Communications: 6D+2; Sensors: 6D+2; Space Transports: 6D+2; Starship Shields: 6D+2
Passengers: none
Cargo Capacity: none
Consumables: 1 day
Maneuverability: 4D
Space: 12
Hull: 4D
Shields: 9D
Sensors
- Passive: 16 / 0D+1
- Scan: 32 / 1D
- Search: 64 / 1D+1
- Focus: 2 / 2D
Weapons - None
Miscellaneous:
- Artificial Gravity: Yes
- Crew: 2
- Pilots: 1
- Sensor Operators: 1
- Average Crew Experience Level: Drakh Veteran
- Stealth: 7 (Base Difficulty to Detect Ship)
- Drakh Gravitic Energy Grid: 9D
- Gravitic Engine
Description: Jaath, ‘Intervention’
The Drakh’s control of gravitic technology is unequaled by any of the younger races. The Shield Escort is an example of how the Drakh have managed to compact a shield generator so that it fits onto a relatively small ship. Shield Escorts are unarmed but are extremely fast and agile. They carry a powerful gravitic generator that can reinforce the energy grid of another vessel. In battle, the Shield Escorts dart around the larger Drakh vessels, positioning themselves between the capital ships and incoming fire, lending their shield strength to that of the larger ships.
Obviously, this is incredibly dangerous for the crews of the Escorts, who must fly their tiny ships straight into the path of incoming neutron lasers and discharge cannon blasts, trusting to their own flimsy shield generators to protect them. The Shield Escorts are sometimes controlled remotely using Shadowtech pilot pods or radio, but radio signals can be jammed and pilot pods are a precious resource (especially after the kala outfitted an entire Centauri fleet with the pods); therefore, the Drakh must sacrifice a few of their own so that the rest can be saved.
Source:
- Babylon 5: The Drakh (page 65)
- thedemonapostle