Rebel Speeder Bike
Name/Model# : | Rebel Speeder Bike (Modified Overracer)
Designer/Manufacturer : | Mobquet Swoops and Speeders. Modifications by Rebels
Combat Designation : | Speeder Scout Bike
Scale : | Speeder
Length : | 4.4 Metres
Skill : | Repulsorlift operation: speeder bike
Crew Skill : | Varies, typically vehicle blasters 3D and repulsorlift operation 4D+2
Crew : | 1 Pilot
Troops : | None
Cost of Vehicle : | NEW 8,000 Credits USED [Before Endor] 3,200 Credits [4 Years After Endor] 3,000 Credits
Vehicle Speed : | 530 kph (WEG=185)
Altitude Range : | 20 Metres from Ground Level
Manoeuvrability : | 3D+2
Cargo Capacity : | 4 kg
Weapons : | 1 Forward Light Blaster Cannon Fire Control: 1D Range: 50-300 metres/500 metres/1 km Damage: 3D
Comlink Range : | 50 km
Cover of Vehicle : | 1/4
Shields/Body Strength : | Shields None. Body Strength 1D+2
Special Abilities : | Passive sound dampers and sensor bafflers add +1D to difficulty to detect via sensors.
Note : | WHOSAV incorrectly states speed as 430 kph.
The Rebel Speeder Bike was originally designed as a civilian (Overracer) speeder bike, but has long since been modified by Rebel techs. Speeder bikes remain the Rebellion's scouting craft of choice, due to their high agility and swiftness which make them difficult targets. Their primary usages calls for battlefield scouting, probing, and if permitting raiding rear areas and eliminating enemy scouts. They are also employed as light reconnaissance patrols in front of a unit's main body, and for perimeter patrol around temporary bases. On the planet of Stend VI, the Rebels deployed a few operatives with these speeder bikes to assist in recruiting some of the swoop gangs, as well as to gain intelligence on the Dark Riders (Imperial Storm Commandos) unit. To increase the stealth of their scout bikes sensor bafflers, and passive sound dampers were added (to the engines) to dramatically reduce engine noise. Although radiostatic dampers are more effective, they come at the cost of reduced engine power and increased electromagnetic signature. Nonetheless, Rebel techs have removed all non-essential equipment: civilian stabilizers, high-altitude lifters, long-range receivers to reduce the Modified Overracer's electromagnetic signature. Known enthusiastically as "flying rocks" amongst Rebel scouts, these streamlined speeder bikes are a repulsorlift motor with a blaster and comlink. *After Endor* Four years after the debacle at Endor, the Rebel Speeder Bike continues to see service with the New Republic. The corvette FarStar was assigned six of these vehicles.
Sources: RASB***Pg 108, 109 / TDSBS (Campaign Book)***Pg 1, 75 & (Mobquet Overracer Card) / WHOSAV***Pg 76
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