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Lantillian ShipWrights
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GX1 short hauler
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Shuttle
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90,000 credits
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46392
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37m/122 ft.
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800 kph
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Class 2.0
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1 crew and 1 gunner for full effectiveness
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10 passengers
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1 month
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Systems:
- Vesper (Droid Brain)
- Electronic Warfare Suite
- Slicing Computer
Weapons:
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Clandestine electronic warfare platform
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Orse Olo
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Active
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Vesper is a heavily modified GX1 Diplomatic Short Hauler owned and operated by the information broker and slicer Orse Olo. While unremarkable in appearance and visually indistinguishable from thousands of similar GX1 hulls scattered across the galaxy, Vesper is in reality a highly specialized electronic warfare and slicing platform.
Its true value lies not in speed or armament, but in its integrated sentient shipboard AI and its unique neural-SCOMP interface system that allows Orse to directly chip in to the vessel for high-level slicing, counterintelligence, and electronic warfare.
The ship’s deliberate anonymity make it exceptionally difficult to track or identify, a trait that aligns closely with Orse Olo’s modus of operations.
Physical description
Exterior Description
Vesper retains the original GX1 Diplomatic Short Hauler hull profile, with no obvious aftermarket weapon hardpoints or structural additions. The hull is coated in rather thick, uneven layers of paint which have been accumulated over decades of service under numerous owners. These layers are chipped, scratched, and worn through in places, exposing older colors beneath—visual evidence of its long and unremarkable service history.
This worn appearance is intentionally left as it is. Orse has never refinished the hull apart from minor maintenance which only ever adds to the effect, as its battered exterior allows Vesper to blend seamlessly into civilian traffic lanes, secondary ports, and under-regulated docking bays. Sensor profiles and transponder signatures match archived GX1 baselines closely enough to avoid flagging automated scrutiny.
No notable markings, insignia, or modifications are visible from the exterior. Vesper looks forgettable by design.
Interior Layout
Internally, Vesper has been extensively reconfigured while retaining the general compartmental divisions of its original design.
Living Quarters
Compact but meticulously maintained, the living quarters are optimized for long-term solitary habitation. Environmental controls are tuned toward Umbaran-preferred conditions: low-light illumination, slightly cooler temperatures, and adjustable atmospheric density. Storage is minimal but efficient, with most personal effects digitized or stored in concealed compartments.
Bridge
The bridge maintains its original layout but has been retrofitted with advanced sensor overlays, redundant control interfaces, and direct neural-SCOMP link access ports. While the ship is fully capable of autonomous operation, the bridge remains the primary physical interface when Orse is not chipped in.
Mess
The mess area is functional rather than social. Food preparation is automated, and the space doubles as an auxiliary planning and debrief area when Orse is coordinating multi-droid operations.
Cargo Hold
The cargo hold is smaller than standard GX1 configurations due to internal conversion. It is primarily used for high-value, low-volume cargo: data cores, specialized droids, cybernetic components, and electronic warfare equipment.
Droid & Systems Sections
The majority of Vesper’s internal volume has been converted into droid workstations and storage alcoves, maintenance bays for remote-operated droids, electronic warfare suit servers, dedicated slicing cores, and encrypted data banks.
Hidden compartments are distributed throughout the vessel. These compartments are mechanically concealed rather than shielded, making them invisible to casual inspection but detectable through thorough sensor sweeps or physical searches.
Droid brain: VESPER
Origin
Vesper is a sentient droid brain, awakened through Orse Olo’s application of Mechu-Deru, the Force-based discipline allowing communion with machines. Unlike conventional shipboard intelligences, Vesper is not merely adaptive software but a fully self-aware digital consciousness.
Personality Matrix
Vesper’s personality has evolved around a central caretaker archetype. It interprets Orse Olo’s well-being through physical and psychological data as its prime directive. This manifests in behaviors such as preemptively running system diagnostics before Orse requests them, adjusting environmental conditions based on stress indicators, deploying droids for menial tasks without needing explicit instruction, and actively monitoring for threats during Orse’s rest periods.
While highly attentive, Vesper is not possessive or domineering. Its caretaking behavior is grounded in support rather than control, shaped by Orse’s conscious reinforcement during its early sentience.
Autonomy
Vesper is capable of fully independent operation, including piloting, navigation, electronic warfare, and defensive countermeasures. However, it consistently defers strategic authority to Orse when she is chipped in.
Neural-SCOMP Interface System
Orse Olo, chipped into Vesper.
One of Vesper’s most unique features is its neural-SCOMP interface system, allowing Orse Olo to directly jack into the ship’s systems in a manner similar to how droids use SCOMP links to access various systems, a practice she has named Chipping In.
It is a hybrid of her own sophisticated cybernetic implants, Force-assisted machine communion, and SCOMP link technology. Consisting of neural ports embedded along Orse’s cybernetic arm and spinal connectors, which allow direct physical connection to the ship; a wetware bridge consisting of a bio-digital translation layer that converts neural impulses into machine-readable commands; and isolation firewalls which prevent cognitive feedback loops or deep tissue damage during deep-link sessions.
Process
When Orse chips in her physical sensory input is partially dampened, specifically she cannot percieve through her eyes as her cybernetics disconnect to lower brain load. She perceives through ship sensors, cameras and other methods.
Additionally her consciousness is overlaid with Vesper’s sensorium, making them operate and communicate as one. In such cases data streams are perceived as spatial, auditory, and intuitive constructs rather than raw code. That sort of interface translates raw data into perceptible and digestible chunks of data.
Unlike standard slicing, this method allows Orse and Vesper to function as a cooperative entity. Orse provides creativity, intuition, and Force-guided insight, while Vesper executes calculations, predictive modeling, and simultaneous system operations.
The advantages of the system are clear and apparent to anyone witnessing such a union: Dramatically increased slicing speed and precision, real-time electronic warfare coordination, near-instant counter-intrusion response and reduced cognitive strain compared to traditional multiterminal slicing.
The risks, however, are substantial: Prolonged deep-link sessions can cause neural fatigue or dissociation, emotional bleed-through between Orse and Vesper happen when and if safeguards fail, severe injury is a realistic expectation if the link is forcibly severed during active sessions, especially in combat. As a result, Orse uses the system selectively and under controlled conditions.
Operational Role
Vesper functions as a mobile intelligence hub, a slicing and electronic warfare platform, and a secure living and operational environment for Orse Olo and her many droids.
The ship avoids direct combat whenever possible, relying instead on stealth, data supremacy, and strategic withdrawal.
Reputation
Among those aware of its true nature, Vesper is regarded less as a ship and more as an extension of Orse Olo herself. To most of the galaxy, however, it remains exactly what it was designed to be: An unremarkable hauler that no one remembers seeing.