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Fw'sen-class Picket Ship

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this Ssi-ruuvi design is a small combat ship that is piloted by a P'w'eck servant. These 45-meter long ships required three P'w'eck pilots and ten P'w'eck gunners, and are extermely fragile. The Ssi-ruuvi engineers opted for shield generators insetad of hull plating on these ships, which meant that once the shields are down, the ship was extremely vulnerable. Like most Ssi-ruuvi starships, the Fw'sen-class resembles a pointed egg. However, the Fw'sen-class has four stubby wings for stability. It is armed with top- and bottom-mounted turbolasers, a pair of front-mounted laser cannons, and six ion cannons. Each Fw'sen-class picket ship carried 6 enteched servant droids in addition to its P'w'eck crew. This crew setup, paired with the ship's fragile shielding, allowed the picket ships to be expendable while serving the purpose of providing needed support. The ships are piloted remotely by a Ssi-ruuk who has access to special neural inhibitors planted in the P'w'ecks. Twenty Fw'sen-class ships were sent as part of the Bakura invasion fleet. Note that the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels indicates that this ship was fifty meters in length, and was not armed with ion cannons.