Viridian Ship Catalog · Chapter 11
Ownership, Service and Refit
What a Viridian hull costs new and used, who services it, what the paperwork is, and when to buy a newer revision or upgrade the one you have.
Condition and Price
Apply the condition multiplier to the catalog price (Vehicles Manual, Chapter 12). All revisions exist at once, and the older revisions are the used market.
| Condition | Multiplier | What you are buying |
|---|---|---|
| Factory new | ×1.00 | Warranty, clean registry, full service history, a current Service Seal |
| Serviceable used | ×0.55 | Ten to twenty years old, maintained, documented |
| High hours | ×0.35 | Deferred maintenance, tired systems, incomplete records; the seal has probably lapsed |
| Salvage title, flying | ×0.25 | Recovered and returned to service; title annotated; the seal is gone |
| Hull only, non-functional | ×0.12 | A frame and whatever survived; a project, not a ship |
Viridian's records help a used hull that stayed in the Concord: a certified yard has logged every overhaul, and the Seal Terminal carries the history. A hull that left the Concord and came back has a gap in that record, and every buyer in the Concord reads it.
Which Revision to Buy
| If you want | Buy |
|---|---|
| The cheapest Viridian hull that does the job | The first revision of the line, serviceable used |
| A courier that is never noticed | The VN-33C1, the Classic |
| The best Handling in a courier | The VN-33C3 |
| A hospital ship that works far from a certified yard | The VN-63C1, the Classic |
| A frigate with the most thermal margin | The VN-63C3 |
| The most open slots in a survey ship | The VN-54C2 |
| The newest revision of anything | A special order outside Concord space; it takes a season |
Service and Parts
Authorized service is restricted to certified yards. A certified yard works on any Viridian revision, and its work keeps the Service Seal current.
Annual overhaul. The overhaul is the visit that keeps the seal. An Integrated Architecture hull serviced at a certified yard pays 75% of the price (Vehicles Manual, Chapter 12). The VN-53 is Professional and pays the Professional multiplier of 1.25 first.
| Scale | Annual overhaul | At a certified yard (75%) |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2,400cr | 1,800cr |
| 3 | 5,000cr | 3,750cr |
| 4 | 9,000cr | 6,750cr |
| 5 | 24,000cr | 18,000cr |
| 5 (VN-53, Professional) | 30,000cr | 22,500cr |
| 6 | 60,000cr | 45,000cr |
| 7 | 160,000cr | 120,000cr |
Parts are Common in Concord space for every revision. Outside it, a revision two or more behind the newest of its line drops one availability level. A Classic keeps the availability of its successor.
Availability. The newest revision of a line is sold new only through Viridian dealers and institutional sales in Concord space. Elsewhere it is a special order that takes a season. The oldest revisions are the used market.
Gray market. Poor. Black-market specialists charge heavily, and the Field Repair drawback and the Service Seal mean a gray-market job both costs more and shows.
Authority heat. High for modified stack, clone or neural systems. A ship with a Restricted Viridian module and no custody record is found in the first audit (Chapter 9).
Financing
Viridian's customers finance through private wealth, Concord institutions, research grants and medical consortiums. A used hull at high hours or below is usually bought outright, because a Concord lender will not finance a hull with a lapsed seal.
Inspections
A Viridian hull passes a Concord inspection easily and a foreign one with questions. The Seal Terminal's record is proof of service, and its glow tells a dockhand the state of the seal from the pier. A foreign inspector who finds a Restricted module without the Concord's paperwork treats the find as evidence.
Upgrading a Revision
An owner may upgrade a hull to the next revision at a certified Viridian yard. The rules are in Chapter 4, Revision Upgrades; the cost is on each line's Revision Table and in Chapter 13.
Example. A crew owns a VN-63C1 and wants the VN-63C2. The upgrade costs 8 retrofit points and 300,000cr, taken from the hull's unspent budget of 55 points (200 less the 145.0 it spends). The yard keeps the ship for 1 week. The crew pays 300,000cr against 7,500,000cr for a new C2.
When an upgrade is not worth it. A Classic is not upgraded away from without a reason. The VN-63C1 repairs its hull, Life Support and Medical Ward with ordinary parts at a yard that is not a Viridian one; the C2 integrates those systems into the System Point lattice and loses that. A crew that works far from the Concord keeps the C1.
At the Table: The Seal Inspection
Use this when a crew brings a Viridian hull to a certified yard, or lands in a port where an inspector reads the Service Seal.
At the yard. The overhaul is a normal Annual Overhaul (Vehicles Manual, Chapter 12) at 75% of the price for a hull with Integrated Architecture. The yard records it and the Seal Terminal shows the seal current.
Lapsed. A lapsed seal is read by dealers and customs officers in the Concord. A crew that cannot explain it adds 1 Bane Die to Negotiation checks with Viridian dealers and to checks to clear Concord customs.
Restoring it. In Concord space the yard restores the seal with the next overhaul at no penalty. Outside it, a yard with a dry dock needs a Hard Electronics check or a surcharge of a quarter of the overhaul price.
Selling a lapsed ship. A buyer with a survey sees the lapse. The ship sells at the condition multiplier for what the survey finds, and a lapsed seal is one more thing for the buyer to argue about.
Authority and the Concord
Viridian is a Concord maker. Concord authorities know its ships and trust its records, and the Concord's relief services read its medical marks. In Funtari or Jaziri space a Viridian ship is notable: a pearl-white hull with no seams marks its owners as well funded, probably not desperate, and better equipped than the hull size suggests.