# Ownership, Service and Refit *Viridian Ship Catalog, Refined Hulls of the Shoiyan Concord for Void Drifters. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/viridian/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.