STV Redoubtable

Ship Summary
Ship Name	STV Redoubtable
Faction	Unspecified
Hull Type
Ship Class	Resolution-class
Brief Description	Light Cruiser escorting STV Mendicant
Campaign	Rogue Trader: After the Gold Rush

Ship Details

Hull:	Light Cruiser
Dimensions:	3.8km long, .5 km abeam
Mass:	220 megatonnes
Crew:	67,500 approx
Accel:	3.9 gravities max sustainable acceleration

Game Stats

Speed	6	Maneuverability	+12
Detection	+15	Armour	20
Void Shields	2	Hull Integrity	60
Space	58	Total Power	59
Turret Rating	2
Weapon Capacity	3
Crew Population	100	Crew Morale	100	Crew Rating	40 (crack)

Essential Components

Jovian-pattern Class 8.2 Drive, Strelov 1 Warp Engine, Gellar Field, Multiple Void Shield Array, Invasion Bridge*, Vitae Pattern Life Sustainer, Voidsmen Quarters, BG-15 Assault Scanners*.

• Adapted from designs used by the Imperial planet-razer squadrons, this bridge is built to support planetary invasions by delivering pinpoint bombardments to ground-based targets. Improved bombardment directions: All Ballistic Skills Tests against planetary based targets gain a +10 bonus. Additionally, ground-based forces in vox communication with a ship equipped with an Invasion Bridge count as being equipped with a Multicompass.
• BG-15 Assault Scanners are optimized for planetary assault, and are designed to pinpoint the power sources of both planetary and orbital installations, the better to rain fire upon them. Incoming!: All Ballistic Skills Tests against planetary based targets gain a +5 bonus. Mark your Targets: When working towards a Military objective, the players earn an additional 50 Achievement Points towards completing that objective

Supplemental Components

• Barracks: As a troop carrier, Redoubtable needs somewhere to stow her troops and their gear in relative comfort. Barracks grant an additional 100 Achievement Points toward any Military Objectives, and grant a +20 bonus to all Command Tests involving Boarding and Hit and Run actions.
• Munitorium:
• Storm Drop Pod Launch Bays (2): These honeycomb drop pod launchers line Redoubtable's ventral surface, and allow her to deliver her troops to battlezones quickly and efficiently. Drop Pod Bays grant an additional 50 Achievement Points toward any Military Objectives. Each Drop Pod Bay holds 20 drop pods.

Weapons

Bombardment Cannons*: Location: (1 Prow), Str: 3, Dam: 1d10+7, Crit: 2, Range: 4

• Bombardment Cannons act as macrobatteries and can only be mounted in a Prow, Dorsal, or Keel weapons slot. When in orbit, the players gain +20 towards any Intimidate Tests against planetary based characters. When working toward a Military Objective against a planet, the players earn an additional 50 Achievement Points. When used as part of a planetary bombardment, bombardment cannons double the affected area, do an additional 20 damage to large units, and deal an additional10 damage to individuals and vehicles. This weapon is also incredibly destructive, and if it generates a hit, add 1 to the result rolled on the Critical Table.

Sunsear Las-broadside: Location: (2 Port/Starboard), Str: 6, Dam: 1d10+3, Crit: 4, Range: 9

• Redoubtable also carries a small squadron of a dozen Shark Assault Boats. Rules for small craft and assault operations can be found in the Attack Craft section.

Complications

Vessel of the Fleet

• Steadfast Ally: Many officers and voidmen of Battlefleet Calixis and Battlefleet Koronus remember Aegis and her long service. All officers and crew aboard Redoubtable enejoy the benefits of their ship's glorious career, and automatically gain the Good Reputation (Imperial Navy) Talent.
• His Word Obeyed: Any officer or crewman who makes a Command Test aboard Redoubtable gains a +10 bonus.
• Duty Unto Death: If the ship is ever crippled, the Captain may make a Challenging (+0) Command Test. If successful, the ship does not suffer the effects of being crippled during her subsequent turn.

STV Redoubtable

Laid down at Drysan Construction Yards roughly 1,100 years ago as Scrutiny, Redoubtable was originally a Resolution -class long-range reconnaissance ship. After a lengthy construction while the Imperial Shipwrights scoured the sector for powerful augur arrays and cogitator banks, she did her shakedown with Battlefleet Calixis scouting out the far corners of the sector. Once the Navy was content with her readiness, she was deployed to Port Wander as part of the forces investigating the ship disappearances along the edge of the Drusus Marches. She served with distinction here, her captain, officers, and crew amassing numerous Imperial Navy commendations. Thanks to the distinction of her crew and the accolades afforded them, Scrutiny was one of the first Imperial ships through the Koronus Passage when it was finally re-opened at the end of the 40th millennium.

Over the next 300 years she sailed the void as part of an Imperial Navy scouting mission. Along with a dozen other light cruisers, she wandered the Expanse surveying worlds, fighting pirates and, when her captain and crew could manage, bringing the holy light of the God-Emperor to the godless heathens that lived therein. After centuries of duty, the scouting mission had still only charted a fraction of the regions of the Koronus Expanse. Realizing that they had neither the time nor resources to dedicate to a truly thorough charting of the Expanse, the Navy recalled the scouting mission to the Calixis sector and replaced them with cheaper and more expendable, Rogue Traders and Free Captains. Time and the ravages of interstellar exploration in a hostile sector had not treated Scrutiny well, and upon her return she was decommissioned, her crew reassigned, and she was sent back to the Drysan yards for a full refit.

For decades she sat laid-up in drydock at Drysan. Designated for re-purposing, her powerful augur arrays and their component cogitator banks were removed as she was slowly and painstakingly reconfigured as a troop carrier to ferry forces of Imperial Guardsmen from the Calixis Sector to Port Wander and the Koronus Expanse. Her interior compartments were converted to special barracks and munitoria to carry the Guardsmen and all of their necessary equipment. She was fitted with drop-pod bays along either side of her keel for the fast deployment of troops to battlefields, and heavier armour and weapons were installed to protect her in her new, more martial role. Nearly 100 years to the day from her decommissioning, she put in at Port Wander with fresh paint, a belly full of Imperial Guardsmen, and a new name, Aegis.

Aegis served in her troop carrier/combatant role remarkably well for centuries. Even after her reconfiguration and recommissioning, she continued to collect commendations and battle medals under the leadership of her numerous captains. Eventually however, the cost of keeping her and the remainder of her sister ships operational became too much for even the Administratum to countenance, and Aegis, along with all remaining Resolution -class ships were decommissioned a final time and sold out of the service. Aegis was bought at auction by Talfore Machariel, and has served as a heavy support and planetary assault ship for House Machariel for decades. After a lengthy refit at Machariel HQ, she is now on station guarding a recently discovered ancient space station for Marneus Machariel.