7000 Scale Paravian Raid Mothership (RMS) SRZ

The Paravians, an avian species descended from Gorns, border the Gorns and Romulans. They function primarily as raiders with no permanent bases outside of their home planetary system. But being raiders does not mean they avoid battle with enemy warships. In fact, they relish such battles and the spoils that come from a victory. Paravians, having seen Gorn fossils in their ancient rocks, consider Gorns to be demons. Needless to say, their first meetings did not go well. The Paravians were driven back to their home planet by the Gorns and accidentally became extinct when a sun snake triggered their home star into a nova. However, in alternate timelines, they forged a significant military empire.

The Paravians found the borders of their enemies (the Gorn Confederation and Inter-Stellar Concordium) increasingly well defended and softer targets harder to reach. At the time, the Paravians were having problems increasing the armaments of large ships similar to those of virtually all other empires (leading the “early” class of dreadnoughts, essentially a large command platform with armament little better than that found on heavy cruisers). The Paravians were more aggressive than most and diverted their limited capability to construct large ships to this design. The object of the ship was to provide logistics (fuel, spare parts, repair capability) to conduct extended-duration raids into more vulnerable regions of their foes. The raid mothership would not be tied to a single location as a normal base would. Most empires would eventually copy this idea to some extent during the General War with mobile operations bases. Only the Paravians purpose-built a design for the mission. Some of these ships were caught by significant enemy forces and destroyed, sometimes leading to the loss of much of the raiding force that could not be resupplied.

The Raid Mothership can carry one, two, or three pods; one or two of the pods can be “double-weight” pods. This version of the  Paravian Raid Mothership has a scout pod and two self-defense pods. Known names include Cloud Lancer and Cloud Rider.

This unpainted ship is designed to fit on a typical 5/8-inch hex map or to allow more room on a larger hex map. (If used for A Call to Arms: Star Fleet, simply change the measurements from inches to centimeters.)  The half-inch-wide, hex-shaped flight stand is built in.