Typical Jkarn Battlewagon


Craft: Modified Okim Industries Ltd. MR-4
Type: Heavily Armed Landspeeder
Scale: Walker
Length: 60 meters
Skill: Repulsorlift Operations; Okim MR-4
Cost: 35,000 credits
Crew: 10-15
Passengers: 250
Cover: Full (1/2 on the roof)
Cargo Capacity: 1,550 tons
Move: 77; 220
Maneuverability: 1D+1
Body Strength: 6D
Altitude Range: 20 meters
Weapons:
2 Double Blaster Turrets
Scale:Walker
Fire Arc:All
Crew: 1
Skill: Vehicle blasters
Fire Control: 2D
Range: 3-75/225/540m
Damage: 5D
40 Repeating Blaster gunport loops
Scale: Character
Fire Arc: 15 right, 15 left, 10 back
Crew: 1
Skill: Blaster; Repeating Blasters
Fire Control: 1D
Range: 2-30/120/350m
Damage: 6D+2
4 Medium Laser Cannons
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Front
Crew: 1
Skill: Vehicle Blasters
Fire Control: 3D+2
Range: 15/35/90m
Damage: 5D

The Jkarn people were an autonomous, neutral, near human race, living within the borders of the old Republic, in the Egemont sector. When the Empire rose, they attempted to retain their neutrality. This was not a decision that the Empire approved of, and the Emperor decided to make an example of the Jkarn. The Imperial navy destroyed the weak and unprepared Jkarn space navy, and engaged in large scale bombing of the Jkarn homeworld. The Empire had not yet developed a weapon anywhere near the magnitude of the Death Star, so while the damage inflicted was great, it did not eliminate all life on the planet.

The destruction of the major cities of the planet gave a great opportunity to the Rin, a primitive, warlike race that the Jkarn had confined to reservations. The Rin were able to hunt down many of the devastated Jkarn, and gain near total control of the planet. Those Jkarn that survived now live in their massive battlewagons, taking shelter in these converted ore haulers.

The Jkarn lead a grim existence now, still operating the Ridulum mines in order to acquire materials to add to their ships. The Battlewagons will occasionally make forays into the ruins of the Jkarn cities when supplies and the Ridulum stores are low, but the high radiation, the Rin, and the primitive, often hideously deformed urban survivors make those trips dangerous indeed.
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