Siyuihwye II class Pirate Ship

Siyuihwye II class Pirate Ship
A disguised pirate ship.
Type: PP Pirate Ship
Category	ACS
Size	300 Tons
Hull Configuration	Wedge Hull
Streamlining	Streamlined Hull
Tech Level	TL–12
Engineering
Computer	Model/4
Jump	J-2
Maneuver	7 G
Armaments
Hardpoints	3
Accommodations
Staterooms	1
Personnel
Crew	2
Officers	1
Enlisted	1
High/Mid Passengers	0
Payload
Cargo	105.53 Tons
Fuel tank	0 Tons
Construction
Origin	Reaver's Deep Sector
Manufacturer	various
Year Operational	-104
End of Service	49
Price
Cost	MCr159.5585. MCr143.60265 in quantity.
Architect fee	MCrAdrian Tymes
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile	PP-CS72
Images
Blueprint	Yes
Illustration	No
Source
Also see	Siyuihwye class Armored Trader
Canon	Published, fan design
Era	Long Night
Reference	None
Designed with Mongoose Traveller High Guard rules, but portable to other versions.

The Siyuihwye II class Pirate Ship is an armed and armored starship.

It is a paramilitary ship and a Corsair Vessel.

Description (Specifications)

"Siyuihwye II" is an unofficial designation. Officially, some Siyuihwye class Armored Traders received an upgrade kit but remained the same ship class. This upgrade kit sufficiently changed the ships' characteristics, performance, and optimized mission that the AAB recognizes kit-upgraded Siyuihwyes as a different ship class.

From a distance, this ship is indistinguishable from a Siyuihwye class Armored Trader so long as it is not doing any externally perceptible thing the Siyuihwye class is incapable of (primarily, exceeding 2 Gs). The upgrades are all passive (such as the upgraded sensors), hidden (such as the turrets), or internal (such as the extra armor and upgraded power plant; the plant's higher emissions - if being run at full blast - are often the first detectable difference).

Diplomatic advisory: it is the Tlaukhu's official position that all kit-upgraded Siyuihwyes were destroyed during the Uwaralyekose (Aslan Cultural Purge) between -56 and 49, and while some Siyuihwyes have been upgraded since (such as with better turrets) they remain Siyuihwye class Armored Traders and not purpose-designed Pirate Ships. As with many things that are a matter of pride to the Aslan Hierate, caution is advised when expressing disagreement with them on this point where they could issue a challenge, no matter how much evidence there is that the upgrade kits continue to be manufactured and used from time to time. That said, this is an obscure matter that most members of the Aslan Hierate will not have heard of unless and until they have reason to.

It is always possible to say that a Siyuihwye that has been heavily upgraded and engages in piratical activities is still merely a heavily upgraded Siyuihwye, not formally a Siyuihwye II, even if it matches the specifications of a Siyuihwye II and regardless of how exactly it was upgraded. Even the original Aslan designers made this claim - so, arguably, there never have been any Siyuihwye IIs.

Image Repository

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General Description & Deck Plans

Deck Plans for this vessel.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. ^[1]

Basic Ship Characteristics ^[2]
No.	Category	Remarks
1.	Tonnage / Hull	Tonnage: 300 tons (standard). 4200 cubic meters. Airframe Wedge Hull. Dimensions: maximum 26 meters long by 30 meters wide by 10 meters tall.
2.	Crew	Crew: 1 Astrogator, 1 Engineer. 1 virtual Pilot, 1 virtual Sensor Operator, 3 virtual Gunners.
3.	Performance	Acceleration: 7-G maneuver drive installed. Jump: 2. Can carry enough fuel for 2 jumps.
4.	Electronics	Model/4 ship computer.
5.	Hardpoints	3 hardpoints.
6.	Armament	Three triple-mount pulse laser turrets.
7.	Defenses	Heavy armor, high acceleration, and the lasers (in point defense role).
8.	Craft	None. Vacc suits required for EVA (extra-vehicle activity). Rescue Balls for crew escape normally carried.
9.	Fuel Treatment	It is normally equipped with a fuel purification plant and fuel scoops.
10.	Cost	MCr159.5585 standard (no architect's fees, those having been paid off before the Third Imperium existed). MCr143.60265 in quantity. Upgrade kits from a Siyuihwye class Armored Trader cost MCr63 (including labor to install) and were customized for their target, rendering quantity discounts impossible.
11.	Construction Time	23 weeks standard, 16 in quantity, if built directly. Almost always converted from a Siyuihwye class Armored Trader instead. Upgrade kit takes 9 weeks to manufacture (usually done in parallel with manufacturing a Siyuihwye class Armored Trader) then 1 week to install.
12.	Remarks	A pirate ship with a slightly involved manufacturing process, to trick "honest" shipyards into manufacturing most of it. Officially no longer exists.

History & Background (Dossier)

See Siyuihwye class Armored Trader for the origins.

Records of upgrade kit manufacture show that the biosphere was often optimized for the production of mild intoxicants, to keep the crew amused and not bored during jumps - whether on the way to a system to plunder, or after raiding and en route back to a port where they could offload their goods. More than one such record contained an explicit advisory to the crew to remain clear-headed when approaching prey or docking at their home port. In one case where a human second crew was intended, the advisory was crudely translated to Anglic as, "Raid ships. Get drunk. Be a hero.", when a more accurate translation would have been, "To be heroic, raid ships then get drunk, in that order." A note in that case's production logs says the construction crew used the cruder translation because they believed the intended audience would be more receptive to it.

During the Uwaralyekose (Aslan Cultural Purge) between -56 and 49, all known instances of this class were hunted down and destroyed. The upgrade kit blueprints were left in human shipyard databases, though. Inevitably, eventually, more kits were manufactured and used by the occasional Aslan pirate clan who stopped caring about offending the Aslan Hierate. Very few of these - or the clans who use them - last more than a year once discovered.

Even with the significantly higher cost (and maintenance), and cargo capacity reduced from about 1/2 to about 1/3 of the ship's tonnage, some operators attempt to continue to use this as a Tramp Vessel, particularly for belt mining (using the extra speed to make faster deliveries, and thus more trips per month). Although this can work in the right circumstances, it more often results in mounting debt. A Siyuihwye II is far more suited to paramilitary activities than civilian. The experiences of one of the original Siyuihwye operators, who had personal difficulty adjusting to a pirate's life after her ship was upgraded, were made into an epic poem; all copies of this work were eradicated when the Aslan Hierate mostly erased the clan from history, and all that remains is a review of it in the notes of a member of an upgrade kit construction crew.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Ship Interior Details (Peculiarities): The main differences from a Siyuihwye class Armored Trader introduced by the upgrade kit are:

Double armor thickness
Densitometers, jammers, and generally massively boosted sensor processing capability
Upgraded computer and fire control software
Upgraded lasers (if the turrets still held laser drills instead of serious weapons)
Extra reactor units, primarily to power the lasers
Slightly expanded fuel tanks to power the extra reactors
Maneuver drive units expanded (all internally) 3.5 fold
Fully regenerative life support added to allow more endurance away from port
About 2/3 the cargo capacity, to make room for all of the above

The refurbishment process is similar to the practice of gutting a Sulieman class Scout/Courier hull and putting some other standard configuration in, though not as extreme even if some of the jump drive capacitors are moved around to make room for the sensors.

Class Naming Practice/s: Kit-upgraded Siyuihwyes retained their names upon conversion.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Paramilitary Vessel - Corsair Vessel - Pirate Vessels:

Type PP class Pirate Vessel

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This ship was designed using Mongoose 2nd ship design rules.

Matthew Sprange. High Guard (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), 8-22.

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Citation Missing - High Guard (Design Sequence Used)
Author & Contributor: Adrian Tymes

↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.
↑ Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

[1] Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

[2] Timothy B. Brown. Fighting Ships (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 10.

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