The Xijulba

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 Role
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 Hyperdrive Rating
 Passengers
 Armaments
* 2x Heavy Turboion Cannons
* 4x Concussion Missile Tubes (6 Missile Magazine)

## **Description:**

The upper-most deck consists of the bridge, droid control
center/maintenance pit, and turret access. This deck is also crowned
with a dual heavy laser turret, controlled remotely by the computer and,
 if necessary, given fire permission from the gunnery officer. The
second deck opens up into the primary living space and reactors. The
living area rings the reactor in an ovoid manner, with the lounge and
galley located directly beneath the bridge. To the front of the lounge
is the small armory and medical bay. The armory contains only a handful
of lethal weaponry by default, being heavily stacked towards the
non-lethal side preferred by Lee Ru's chosen profession. The medical bay
 contains an automated doctor system suitable for emergency first aid
 and moderate surgery, but for extreme injuries or anything requiring
specialized equipment, the autodoc instead fires up one of the four
cryogenic stasis pods for safe-keeping until a medical facility can be
reached. The ship's two airlocks are to either side of the lounge, and
the sub-light engines follow shortly behind those. At the rear of the
second deck is the second half of the engineering section which is best
optimized for quick repairs to that most vital of components: the
hyperdrive. Sandwiched between the engineering compartment and the
lounge is a small but well-equipped manufacturing plant for making spare
 parts and computer equipment when necessary. All of the passenger
staterooms have had the internal door panels removed and the gap welded
shut. The relative comforts of the quarters remain, but they lack food
processing. In addition, despite being somewhat luxurious, the various
comforts present in these staterooms are almost completely useless for
any sort of escape attempt. The bed, desk, and chair are all large
panels of durasteel welded to the deck plating, the transparisteel
viewports are thick enough to resist anything shy of a direct hit from a
 turbolaser, and even the various fanciful accoutrements in the
refresher are either welded in place or utterly unsuitable for any kind
of offensive action. The lowest deck contains the only remaining portion
 of the cargo hold, which contains two hundred ninety-eight cubic meters
 of storage space, and the entry ramp at the front. The ramp itself is
sufficiently well armored to withstand most hand-held weaponry (the
exception being exclusively shoulder-mounted armor-piercing munitions),
and the clam-shell like doors provide substantially more protection on
either side. Finally, the second dual heavy laser cannon turret is
mounted on the ventral surface. Like the other turret, this one has no
manual controls and must be controlled remotely.

The airlocks are both trapped in a rather unique manner. If the proper
authorization codes are not given, or it is triggered from the bridge,
the floor of the airlock (actually a cleverly disguised, sliding
pressure door) slides open and the atmosphere distributes itself outward
 into a faux room made from particle shielding. The "room" itself is
nearly four times as volume of the airlock, which prevents the
atmosphere from concentrating enough to be breathable for most species.
The airlock's floor then slides closed until brain activity in the
target detects as an unconscious state, at which point the floor opens
again and a small tractor beam retrieves the weightless target and
returns them to the airlock for detainment. In an atmosphere, the
particle shielding is forgone entirely, potentially dropping the victim
the full five meters between the floor and the waiting ground below.
Under water the particle shielding is also forgone, often to potentially
 disastrous consequences for the occupants considering the pressures and
 depths involved. The corridors have shield emitters and bulkheads every
 five meters, along with auto-targeting stun pistols carefully concealed
 in each of the bulkheads' sensor arrays. With the exception of the crew
 quarters, several of the Xijulba's internal humidifiers (which are
located in the ceiling at 3 meter intervals) have been replaced with
concealed Stokhli spray sticks, using the original parts for the
humidifier as the camouflage. All of these systems can be deactivated by
 carrying a comlink or code cylinder with the appropriate codes or by an
 over-ride built into the bridge. The pass codes themselves are several
thousand digits of jibberish using an old Galactic Alliance encryption
code, the message of which reads "We have been compromised. Initiate
procedure Delta-Zeta-One."

## **History:**

The Xijulba shares the hull, and many of the abilities, of the Star Home
 class Mon Calamari freighters. Built largely to operate in the outer
rim, the Star Home design was intended to firmly cement the Mon Calamari
 and their ship-building prowess as one of the dominate ship-building
companies. They failed. Despite having a heavily standardized design
(almost blasphemous for many Mon Calamari Shipwrights of it's own
accord), most people had little or no interest in an eighty-five meter
long cargo ship with extensive shielding arrays and only minimal
armaments, at least not one that would be difficult to upgrade. The
design soon became infamous among aquatic species, however, as it's
design not only allowed easy transit into their home environments
without the need to stop at a dry space port, but the entire ship could
also be flooded to provide a cheerfully damp environment. With the fall
of the Gallactic Alliance came an increased rarity of these vessels,
despite their cult following, and now many shadow ports are offering
replacement parts or even heavily modified designs suitable for the more
 tumultuous times. The Xijulba itself is a rework of the design built on
 Manaan.