NMX "Pillager" Light Cruiser

The Pillager is an NMX warship that first appeared in YE 33. It is primarily used for commerce raiding, but also fills fast-attack front line roles.

Instead of the quick victory they had intended, the NMX were drawn into a costly war of attrition. With their enemies beginning to mobilize counter-offensive operations, the NMX looked for a cheap way to further harm enemy economic stability. They began designing the Pillager in YE 32, but dismissed it as a plausibly cheap warship. But after the defeat at South Gate and the subsequent months of expensive gains, they came back to the design. They added a volumetric outer projection system, hoping to help blend it in amongst civilian ships, and increased its size and cargo-hauling capability. What their end-product was a hard-hitting fast-attack cruiser that was stuck somewhere in between a front line or heavy pirating role with great longevity and speed. It is important to note that, while the SMX were prone to have wide swathes of organic matter in their corridors and compartments, that because of the mostly Nekovalkyrja population aboard this ship and in the interest of preservation of uniforms that it is, for the most part, done away with inside of the ship.¹⁾

The Pillager Light Cruiser is 250 meters long, uses the standard NMX Hull²⁾, and has a sleek body with a flattened nose. Underslung beneath its nose is its main armament, and on top is the bridge. Behind it are small glass portholes in the corridors from which observers may look outside. At its rear it has two massive engines, and along its wings there are four pylons in total, each carrying an engine and torpedo tube. Its rear also has a Launch Bay for Battlepods and Smallcraft, and beneath that also cargo bay with a deployable ramp. It also has deployable landing gear so that it may land on planets.

• Crew: 100
• Maximum Capacity: 400 If the cargo bays are clear.

• Length: 250 meters
• Width: 145 meters(Wingtip to Wingtip)
  • Heighth: 50 meters
• Decks: 4 (Corridors = 5 Meters Tall)

• Sublight Engines: .375c
• FTL: 447,066c (0.85 ly/m)

Please see the DR Guidelines.

• Hull: 25 SP
  • Armor: 20 SP
• Shields: 25 (Threshold 2)

These are rough sketches of the interior deck layout.

• Front End of Deck One

• Deck One

• Deck Two

• Deck Three

• Deck Four

• Left Wing Section (Right wing is simply reversed)

Decks listed in descending order…

• DECK ONE
• NMX Bridge Compartment
• NMX Corridors
• NMX Mishhuvurthyar Cabins
• Standard Mishhuvurthyar Organic Computer³⁾

• DECK TWO
• NMX Corridors
• NMX Nekovalkyrja Barracks
• NMX Armory
• NMX Launch Bay
• 6 NMX Engine Room

• DECK THREE
• NMX Medical Bay
• NMX Nekovalkyrja Barracks
• NMX Armory
• NMX Galley
• NMX Kitchens
• NMX Corridors

• DECK FOUR
• NMX Cargo Bay
• Standard Life Support
• NMX Prisoner Containment
• NMX Corridors
• Aether Generator

• NMX Standard Hull
• NMX Standard Medium Armor

• Standard Life Support
• The hatchways all double as blast shutters.
• Damage Control Stations by every door; All include five tightly-packed AMES and Fire Extinguisher 🧯s.⁴⁾
• NMX Elevators

• NMX Sensor Suite

• Standard Mishhuvurthyar Organic Computer

• Aether Generator
• NMX Standard Shielding

• 6 Aether engines
• Mishhu designed Hyperspace Fold Engine

• NMX Furious Main Cannon
• 28 NMX Anti-Smallcraft Turrets
• 4 NMX Anti-Starship Torpedo Tubes It carries 40 Rounds for each Tube. Twenty are kept on hand, and the other twenty are kept in the Cargo Bay.
• Outer Volumetric Projection System⁵⁾

• 16 NMX Battlepod (Type 30A)
• 3 Shuttles (During the Second Mishhuvurthyar War, it was common for these to be captured Ke-T4 "Fox" Combat Aeroshuttle)
• 5 NMX Battle Buggy (Type 31)
• 3 NMX Cargo Truck (Type 31)