The Blazing Falcon

The Blazing Falcon

"A Mando's best friends are his blaster and his ship"

- Ondre Bersson

  was a ship custom designed and built by Grey Knight Ondre Bersson to be a replacement for the Scythe, which was getting a little old. Ondre wanted a new adventure and a new ship; plus, the Scythe wasn't quite up to the standards of the ferocious ship to ship combat that the Black Knight Crisis was expected to bring. It was built entirely by Ondre himself: Not a single component was salvaged or bought. Ondre crafted the metal, wired the electronics, and did every other factor of starship manufacture. The result was a ship that was purely his.

Fuselage
The fuselage is sort of y-shaped, with a center section that looks like a cut-in-half oblong. This center section contains the cockpit, primary weapons, and cargo bay. The right side l-section contains the ion cannons, one of the two engines, and the crew quarters. The left side section contains the concussion missile launcher, the other engine, and the escape pod.

Weapons
The main difference between the Scythe and the Blazing Falcon is their wepaons systems. The Scythe contained only eight fixed laser cannons and a single missile launcher. The Blazing Falcon contains two manned light turbolaser turrets, dorsal and ventral, an arrangement taken from the YT-series of freighters that Bersson admired, a repeating swivel blaster inspired by the Millennium Falcon, a ship that Bersson absolutely adored, a powerful ion cannon, and a concussion missile launcher. These weapons were all routed right into the ship's main power grid, to give it more power, but they also had a back-up generator that only activated after an ion cannon hit to make sure that would not be neutralized.

Defenses
In addition to the back-up generators, the Blazing Falcon also had an anti-ionization reboot system, standard equipment in all Sorian Navy craft. These two systems made the Blazing Falcon practically oblivious to ion attacks. The freighter also had flare and chaff equipment, as well as extremely strong shields and armor.

Introduction to Trieak
Although by this time Trieak, the Dsghi'dghv that had powered the Scythe now had a battle suit, the Blazing Falcon was still designed to be able to be powered by a Dsghi'dghv, meaning Trieak could access it, turning it into a living starship. Trieak tried it out, and was instantly impressed and he started using it when his battle suit was impractical, particularly in space combat.

Initial Combat Actions
Ondre completed the Blazing Falcon just in time for the Black Knight Crisis. It became his new personal transport and combat starship. It fought in the Battle of Meson as well as many other pivotal battles.

Later History
The Blazing Falcon remained as Bersson's personal starship for the rest of his life.