I thank Spritely for the template
Anyway: Since I'm a total n00b to Andomeda, I hope LH will forgive any mistakes made in the Background section.
Question: Engines need energy; this much I understad. But where do we get the energy from?
Ship Name: Manticore
Captain: Cali Roxborough
Ship Hull Class: Frigate Strike Leader - 23 000
Engines
Impulse Drive (750 energy units) - 2 000
Black Hole Generator (600 energy units) - 7 000
Nominal Power Output: 500
Shields
Kinetic Shields - 1 000
Energy Shields - 5 000
Armour
Phased Colapsium Hull Armour - 30 000
Systems
Advanced Tactics Computer - 400
Armoury - 5 000
Deflector Dish - 300
Weapons
4 Particle Lasers - 6 000
Heavy IMOD Cannon - 1 500
Bombs
Black Hole Bombs - 2 000
Fighters, Shuttles and Pods:
2 Angel Class Fighters - Free?
20 Light Fighters Alpha Class - 400
2 Assault Shuttles - 6 000
2 Ships Shuttles - 500
20 Armoured Escape Pods - 100 + 10 tonnes
Crew
3 SSS - 3 000
2 AD - 1 600
Logistics and Support Division - 150 + 50 tonnes
HqD - 3 000
SDT - 1 000 + 2 tonnes
ADCT - 1500 + 2 tonnes
MASH - 250 + 5 tonnes
Remaining Resources
Up to 131 tonnes
Remaining Credits 300
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Cali Roxborough:
Age: 22
Proffession: Pirate
Description: A pale human girl in her early 20's. Her black hair is so closely cropped to her head it is almost a shave and her face is adorned by 2 small scars: One across her nose-ridge and one similar on her right upper lip. Her body is sleek, but when the clothing is removed it turns out that every inch of it is tightly packed with stringy muscles. Her eyes are topaz.
Background: Roxborough was born on a small moon in the backwaters of space to a Romany family. She was singled out by the other children in the slums right from the beginning: Instead of the tanned skin of a normal Rom, Roxborough was partially albino, leading to her skin being milky white and her eyes champaign in colour. But this tuffened her up. By her seventh year she was a fighter: Clad in rags and her hair cut clumsily in a bob, she was no stranger to hand-to-hand combat, but of course there is always something to screw things up; and as often is the case, it was the adults.
Roxborough's father was an alcoholic and a failure. He took out his aggression on his children and Roxborough, being the smallest and the most obnoxious, took the worst of it. Finally being unable to stand her anymore he sold her off to one of his friends for whatever needs the man had. And it was that night that Roxborough first realised just what martial potentials she had. As he tried to bed her, she was able to kick him so furiously that he fell to the floor, clearing the way for her escape.
She snuck onto a transport belonging to a merchant vessel and so began her life as a hitchhiker. Four years later she was dumped on the planet of Angkor Major, where she ended up on the streets, begging for money in Romanian, Russian, Romany and English, the four languages she spoke so far. By a stroke of luck she was noticed by a cab driver named Veas. She couldn't have been more fortunate: He spoke English and was most kind soul. He took her in and let her stay with him and his wife who took a liking to the twelve year olf girl quickly. Here is where Roxborough finally met her real family.
It was also here that she took up the study of Pradal Serey: Khmer Boxing. Normaly a males only art, Veas introduced her to the moves and her martial skills were such that she was able to win the favour of one of the local teachers and become his pupil. These were good years. But when she was seventeen, Tevy (Veas' wife) died from breast cancer; a heavy blow to her wife and "daughter". The following year Veas himself was killed by his mentally unstabil brother, who was then promptly murdered savagely by Roxborough. Her life in shambles, she fled towards more civilised systems.
As part of a small mercenary company, Rozborough had her fill of action and danger, but she aspired for more. In her nineteenth year she staged an attack against a gold transport, as it unloaded its cargo, together with a few of her mates. It was quick and successful: They got away with gold worth 90 000c. Sadly for her friends, that gold and their choice of friend cost them their lives: Roxborough betrayed them and rid herself of their claim to their shares of the gold. With all of it to her disposal she soon had a ship, crew and equipment ready for the life of piracy along the shipping lanes.