Thus Spake Zarataylor/RathessSkyship

izzylobo - 02/14/2004 17:27:10

The Rathess Skyship isn't as fast as Skywolf, nor is it carrying nearly as much armor, and it lacks combat systems altogether, which is why it has such a lower Essence requirement. It's likely just as difficult to keep going, but not necessarily - it could be completely First Age construction, in which case once repaired, it might be all but maintenance-free. the Rathes skyship is almost certainly a civilian transport of some sort - possibly a super-sized yacht of some Daimyo (although I'd expect Shogunate era construction to be better armed and armored) or maybe just a cargo ship.

My assumption is that Skywolf has a pair of Essence Collection Vanes, but they are located in armored housings, and nearly impossible to get to. Realistically, it likely also has some Essence capacitors or storage widgets of some kind (like those mentioned in Aspectbook:Air) to power its various weapon systems, but I left those out as a balancing option - Storytellers who want them can assume that Skywolf has some amount of Essence to allocate to the various weapons (and possibly other systems) as needed.

As for the other Skywolf type vessels possibly in Rathess - whether they are in one of the big docking towers, lost in the jungle, destroyed, mythical, or already in the hands of some one using them for their own (no doubt nefarious) purposes is, naturally, up to the Storyteller to decide....

Scott Taylor