Ruby Vroom

Kienan's shuttlecraft, counterpart to Toriares' Naiad, the Ruby Vroom is a custom-designed shuttlecraft built personally by Kienan as a short range, multi-role pursuit craft. It is designed to operate in every conceivable terrain (even underwater, provided certain modifications are made prior to deployment) in space and planetary colonies, in orbit, or for short-range missions where starfighters would not be ideal. The Vroom holds up to 6 passengers and comfortably seats 3. Whereas Toriares designed the Naiad with defense and speed in mind, the Vroom is designed with speed and overwhelming firepower as its guiding principles.

The Vroom is powered by a Doughty 4599 power plant, feeding into the twin nacelles port and starboard. This provides sufficient speed and maneuverability even with shields up and weapons firing with no significant loss of performance. Additionally, Kienan has modified the steering of the ship for provide instant, feather-light control with no lag time between his movements and the ship, providing excellent handling and maneuverability even in high-speed pursuits.

Defensively, the Vroom uses Astrite armor plating, enhanced with ablative crystalline coating for added protection against energy weapons. While nowhere near a defensive powerhouse like the Naiad, the Ruby Vroom can withstand a glancing shot from the gun battery of a light cruiser with its shields down with no damage to the Vroom. Kienan has also outfitted the ship with a standard deflector shield and a Class 5 force shield, providing excellent protection.

In terms of weapon systems, the Vroom is quite formindable. Located in the engine nacelles are two forward firing plasma torpedo launchers. While they are not capable of rapid fire, they are extremely powerful and several shots can easily overwhelm the shielding on a craft of comparable size and power.

While these are effective weapons, most of the Vroom's weapons are located in the after section of the ship to deter pursuit. Located on either side of the craft's rear doors are two small plasma cannons, capable of rapid fire observed at 500 rounds per second. These cannons are traditionally deployed to provide cover passengers entering or exiting the craft, or to provide harassing fire to force pursers to back down. When these prove insufficient, Kienan deploys the roof mounted positron gun, which fuses a linear induction motor to magnetically propel a positron-charged shell through a four-foot rifled barrel. While the positron gun is slow to fire and required pinpoint targeting in high-speed chases, the destructive power of a single shot is enough to annihilate pursuing craft.