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Yautja Hunter Starship Class: Yautja Interstellar Hunter Transport Crew: 3 command crew (or can be run by the ship's AI computer), can comfortably carry up to 50 Yautja passengers, and has 8 cells which can hold up to 6 people each M.D.C. by location: Central Mass Driver Gun - 500 Central Control Hub - 1000 *Main Sensor Array - 250 Thrusters (3) - 450 ** Stabilization Thrusters (6) - 110 each ***Main Body - 20,000 * Destroying the Main Sensor Array will effectively blind the ship and eliminate all of its sensor abilities ** These locations are hard to hit and require a called shot at -3 roll. *** Destroying the main body of the ship will leave it a powerless, airless floating wreck. Speed: Driving on Ground: Not possible. Atmospheric Flight: The Yautja space craft can reach up to Mach 35 in earths atmosphere and has full VTOL. Atmosphere Jump: From a single Atmosphere Jump the ship can reach a speed of Mach 67 in less than a second, however this requires a massive expenditure of energy. Space Flight: The Yautja space craft can do .84 of light speed in real space. Space Fold: The ship can fold space to make jumps of huge distances. This is an alien technology that is so complicated, their are some gods who do not fully understand how it works. A jump can theoretically be any distance in a negative amount of time. Time Fold: The space fold can be enhanced to perform a time jump, the technology and method of doing this is only understood by a few elder Yautja. Statistical Data: Height: 12.0m Width: 27.0m Length: 50.0m Weight: 40 tons Cargo: the Yautja ship has one huge primary storage bay whose dimensions are 100ft x 75ft x 15ft. The secondary bay (used mainly for supplies) is half the size of the primary bay. Power Plant: Has an alien power plant with an average life span of 100,000 years. (yes I know it's very big, but it's bloody powerful). Black Market Cost: Never available, could never be available and never will be available (for those that just have to know, 450 billion at least). Weapon Systems: 1. Mass Driver Cannon (1): This is a very powerful weapon which produces an accelerated particle nuclear blast the size of a small comet, it is overtly powerful and in the history of the Yautja, it has very rarely needed to be used. Primary Purpose: Defense Secondary Purpose: Attack Mega-Damage: Mini-blast: 5D6 x 10 M.D. or Full Powered Blast: 1D6 x 1000 M.D. Rate of Fire: once every minute, four (4) melee rounds Effective Range: 100,000km Payload: effectively unlimited Note: It is useless in an atmosphere, and does 1/100th the damage Other Systems: 1. Space Fold (1): This is the special drive that allows the Yautja ship to travel around the universe in such a short time. It basically works by taking two separate points in space and for a single second joins them together, so when they are separated the ship will be in another place from where it started. Range: can join any to places in space as long as they are totally clear and not within 100, 000 Km of a planet or sun. Chance of Precise Position: 65% Note: To use the Space Fold first a roll against Space Navigation must be made and if successful then a roll against Chance must be made, if successful the correct destination will be reached, otherwise you are somewhere else. 2. AI Central Computer (1): All Yautja ships have a huge central computer, which has an artificial intelligence. The computer has no Alignment but will carry out tasks that is instructed to do. It is also programmed to only obey certain members of the crew but in an emergency it will respond to anyone. I.Q.: 30 Abilities: Pilot: Yautja Starship 98% Space Navigation 90% Identify Species 75% Mathematics: Advanced 98% Space Combat: Starship 75% Note: these are abilities of the ship and are not skills that can be learned Memory: equal to 950 kiloquads. (it can hold a lot) 3. Main Sensor/Communication Array (1): The main sensor array on the Yautja space craft has full optics and long range scanners, it also has full communications equipment and targeting systems. Passive Sensors: Optical Sensors: Accuracy: 90% Range: 10,000km Penalties: -10% accuracy per each 1000km past 10,000km Heat, Ion, Radio, and Magnetic Scanners: Detection Accuracy: 80% Identification: 40% Range: 50,000km Long Range Scanners: Range: 1 light year Accuracy: 20% chance of getting useful information Active Sensors: Laser Scanners: Accuracy: 98% Range: 100,000km Chance of Detection: when in use, other ships within 100,000km have a 50% chance of detecting the laser scanners in use Radar: Maximum Number of Targets: 900 Range: 1000km Chance of Detection: 50% 5. Time Fold (1): This is the Yautja ships ability to make small time jumps, it works in tandem with the Space Fold, unfortunately only elder Yautja know how to use it, thus player characters never will. Chance of Success: 20% (takes one day after jump to build up energy in reactor for another) Maximum Time Distance: Ten (10) years either way   For additional Yautja information, see the Yautja Hunter R.C.C. or the Yautja Weapons. These stats. are not necessarily correct and most of the ships features I have developed from books, the original Predator story line and my personal knowledge of sci-fi space craft, I hope you will agree that this makes it reasonably powerful, but remember this is a big starship. I am striving to create ideas, equipment and characters that make the Rifts gaming Megaverse more interesting and challenging for everybody. I agree with the 'overtly powerful makes the game crapy' philosophy and try to stick by it (most of the time). If you would like to e-mail me and give me comments, suggestions, complaints and ideas you are most welcome. Gwilym Croucher (vaughan_croucher@cit.act.edu.au) Rifts is a trademark of Palladium Books, inc. PREDATOR and ALIENS 1992 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ALIENS vs. PREDATOR is a trademark owned by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1995, Gwilym Croucher.

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