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Scorpio
Production information
Class:	Corvette
Technical specifications
Length:	116.7 metres
Height:	65 metres
Max speed (atmosphere):	900 kph
Engine unit(s):	Sublight engines
Hyperdrive system:	Class 3 (primary) Class 15 (backup)
Shielding:	Deflector shields
Sensor systems:	Medium range Sensors
Navigation system:	Navigation computer
Armament:	1 heavy dual laser cannon (forward) 1 dual turbolaser turret (dorsal)
Passengers:	150 passengers (maximum capacity)
Cargo capacity:	4000 metric tons of cargo
Consumables:	6 months
Usage
Role(s):	Transport Mobile HQ
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The Scorpio was a salvaged and refitted Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvette owned by the Dead Ends, a failed prototype group of organic salvagers in servitude to the Collective. One of the first of its run and considered to be too far gone to be worth restoring to military standing, the corvette was refitted to pilot with a minimal crew and stripped of anything of worth. The Dead Ends would use the ship to scavenge from battlefield relics like so many salvagers, to bring weapons and equipment back to their masters. An ambush by pirates while attempting to prize weapons from a Resurgent-class Star Destroyer would leave the ship crippled and left as bait. This would lead to a chance encounter with the crew of the Yastobaal and the Free Droid Enclave, and allowing them to defect to Clan Odan-Urr. After the Yastobaal's departure along with the more frustrated elements of the Enclave, the damaged Scorpio would become the group's mobile HQ in the Kiast system.

Description

At the time of its crew defecting to Clan Odan-Urr, the Scorpio was on the verge of total collapse. Between age, damaged inflicted upon it by the pirates, its systems and weapons stripped and given to the Yastobaal, it was little more than a pressurised hull with a set of engines fixed into place. Tellingly, much of the vessel had been patched up with multiple jury-rigged repairs and patchwork fixes.

Modifications

Automated Systems

Although the Sphyrna-class could be piloted by a single crewman if required, an extensive series of autonomous systems throughout its design served to significantly reduce its optimal crew requirement. Even in its severely dilapidated state, each of these were functioning at maximum capacity and allowed the entire vessel to be controlled from either the bridge or engineering if needed.

Smuggling Compartments

Due to its nature as a salvaging vessel of legally dubious nature, areas across the ship had been hollowed out an enlarged. Various service hatches, utility ducts, and other locations served as easy smuggling compartments. While relatively small scale, along with being hidden only from visual scans and searches, these were intended to transport the most valued salvage pillaged from derelict vessels. Even prior to their defection, the Dead Ends used several of these as rare placed of privacy and celebration, with one area a short distance from the bridge being barely large enough to serve as a small lounge.