Safa Ship Catalog · Chapter 7

Strike Cutters and Corvettes

A gunboat for the fight and a corvette for the voyage. Both buy guns first and pay for them in room.

S13 Strike Cutter

A Radiator Crown strike cutter in 2 versions: S13, S13.1.

The S13 is a strike cutter, a gunboat built around a Safa reactor and a Heavy mount. Its radiator crown, eight vanes folded around a raised reactor housing, deploys when the reactor is pushed. It has no hold, no wings for the atmosphere and no room for guests. It is the cheapest hull with a Heavy mount that Safa sells.

Builder Benefit (Safa). Full Signature benefits apply to a Safa system in a Safa hull: guided attacks add a Boon Die, point defense reads one higher, the reactor counts one higher for overload, and the security, electronic warfare and cyberdefense systems take their Bane Dice. Chapter 4 has the rules.

Radiator Crown. The vanes are the S13's one cheap Heat Dissipation step (4 build points) and its one weakness: they are fragile, and a Critical Hit with the crown deployed shears them (the Radiator Bloom trait).

Model Trait: Radiator Bloom (S13, S13.1). As an Action, the engineer deploys the radiator crown until the end of the next round: Heat Dissipation counts as 2 higher and Signature Management checks add 1 Bane Die. A Critical Hit while the crown is deployed also inflicts 1 System Damage.

Factory Packages. S13 and S13.1: Electronic-Warfare Suite, Internal Security Suite. Empty slots: 0.

Version notes. S13. The first version, with both slots filled by the Electronic-Warfare Suite and the Internal Security Suite. S13.1. Larger engine nozzles and a longer engine housing, with the vanes unchanged: one more point of Speed, the whole of the change.

Common Variants. Gunship, Strike escort, Interdiction boat, Convoy picket.

Version Table

Version	Change	Price	Acquisition	Upgrade from previous
Safa S13	First version	401,000cr	Restricted	n/a
Safa S13.1	+1 Speed	418,000cr	Restricted	8 points, 29,200cr

S5 Fast Escort Corvette

A Blade-and-Keel fast escort corvette in 3 versions: S5, S5.1, S5.2.

The S5 is Safa's fast escort corvette, the fastest Scale 5 hull in the Verge. A longer, deeper blade-and-keel, it is bought by people who expect to be attacked and want the attempt to end quickly: corporate security departments, executive details and the escort lines of a convoy.

Builder Benefit (Safa). Full Signature benefits apply to a Safa system in a Safa hull: guided attacks add a Boon Die, point defense reads one higher, the reactor counts one higher for overload, and the security, electronic warfare and cyberdefense systems take their Bane Dice. Chapter 4 has the rules.

Model Trait: Standoff Doctrine (S5, S5.1, S5.2). Once per encounter, when the Safa S5 disengages from an opponent, it may fire one weapon at that opponent as a reaction.

Factory Packages. S5, S5.1 and S5.2: Electronic-Warfare Suite, Internal Security Suite, Counterboarding Suite, Executive Quarters, Armory. Empty slots: 1.

Version notes. S5. The Vehicles Manual's corvette, unchanged. Power, Heat Threshold and hardpoints sit at the Professional caps. S5.1. A layered dark basalt armor band over the ribs: one point of Armor, the Professional cap. S5.2. A deeper keel and a ventral sensor housing: one more Hull block and one more System Point block. The older versions are the used market.

Common Variants. Executive escort, Corporate security flagship, Convoy escort, Armed courier, Customs corvette.

Version Table

Version	Change	Price	Acquisition	Upgrade from previous
Safa S5	Published first version	2,300,000cr	Restricted	n/a
Safa S5.1	+1 Armor	2,371,000cr	Restricted	8.5 points, 124,300cr
Safa S5.2	+1 Hull block, +1 System Point block	2,437,000cr	Restricted	8 points, 117,000cr