Wanderer Submarine Explorer


Craft: Primeworld Exploration SE-6 "Wanderer"
Type: Underwater Exploration Vehicle
Scale: Speeder
Length: 13 meters
Skill: Submarine Vehicle Operation; Wanderer
Cost: 44,000 credits
Crew: 2
Passengers: 2
Cover: Full
Cargo Capacity: 3 metric tons
Move: 175; 300 kph
Maneuverability: 2D+1
Body Strength: 3D+1
Altitude Range: Surface to maximum dive of 2.1 km
Weapons:
2 Homing Torpedo Tubes
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Front
Missile Loadout: 24 (total)
Crew: Pilot
Skill: Missile Weapons
Fire Control: 4D
Range: 10-50m/200m/500m
Damage: 6D
1 Concussion Charge Launcher
Scale: Speeder
Fire Arc: Front
Missile Loadout: 20
Crew: Co-Pilot
Skill: Missile Weapons
Fire Control: 1D
Range: 25-40m/130m/210m
Damage: 9D+1

The Wanderer was one of Primeworld's early successes, a submarine explorer that could more than hold it's own in combat against the hostile creatures of the seas of most planets. The Homing Torpedoes are really anti-ship weapons, adapted for use against larger forms of sea life, and the Concussion Charges produce a blast that is capable of eliminating whole schools of smaller sea dwellers.

The fire control listed for the homing torpedoes only applies when used against organic creatures that produce a heat signature. When they are used against targets that do not do so, they have 2D+1 in that statistic. The fact that they use a heat seeking homing device renders them particularly susceptible to counter measures such as flares, as they will invariably seek the target with the most defined heat signature.

The concussion charge is designed to produce a huge spherical area of superheated water, around 30 meters in diameter. Anything caught in that area receives the listed damage, and the waves the charge produces will disrupt ordinary swimming for an area three times as great.

The Wanderer is very good at what it does, but it is really not very effective at fending off military craft. Modified craft of this type were used by the Resistance on Rihir, but they were quickly destroyed when the Imperial Leviathans were first introduced to that world. Currently, many of these craft are used by fishermen, both to bring down large prey, or to blast apart reefs and stun or kill all life within the reef. For this reason, Wanderers have a bad reputation on inhabited worlds, and it is very hard to get permits for their operation.
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