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Player > Starships > Manufacturers > Blood Mountain Clans
Starfinder Starship Operations Manual p.69
Ancient Veskarium Shipbuilders
Manufacturing Centers: Conqueror’s Forge, Vesk Prime
Specialties: Military fighters and attack craft
Famous Models: Devastator, Dmolangari, Mauler, Predator
Based on the Veskarium capital world of Vesk Prime, the Blood
Mountain Clans (BMC) trace their heritage back to before the
Gap, when vesk inhabited only their own home world. The
Veskarium had conquered all of Vesk Prime and looked to
neighboring planets for its next conquest. Betting on a future
beyond a single world, several vesk warrior clans inhabiting
the Doshkoraz Mountains around the volcanic Blood Mountain
joined forces and created an aerospace consortium that would
catapult the Veskarium into space. The Blood Mountain Clans
built the first spaceships that carried vesk to other worlds,
and they have remained a major force in the Veskarium
military-industrial complex ever since.
Now one of the Veskarium’s most powerful corporations, the
BMC prides itself on its warrior heritage, producing military
starships for the Veskarium as well as for private sale. Based
on Pact Worlds designs, the BMC built the Veskarium’s first
Drift engine, which took the vesk empire to the stars and into
interstellar war with the Pact Worlds and the Swarm.
The BMC fared well in both the Silent War and the
Swarm War, as its famous Mauler fighter was the Veskarium
military’s primary starfighter, used to great effect against
both enemy factions. The core design of the BMC Mauler has
remained virtually unchanged for almost 300 years, though
its components have undergone regular updates. The Mauler
remains the standard fighter of the Veskarium fleet, and the
starship has been so successful and is so well known that many
vesk use “mauler†as a synonym for any starfighter, whether or
not it was built by the BMC.
The BMC’s history and the Mauler’s success have given
the company a reputation for fierceness in both its corporate
behavior and its starships’ combat performance, a belief
enhanced by the tendency of enthusiastic vesk pilots to ram
their Maulers into opponents’ ships in overzealous or last-ditch
attacks. As a result, BMC ships are widely regarded as good
ramming vessels, and ramming prows (page 16) are a common
weapon on larger BMC ships like the Devastator (page 111). The
Mauler’s usefulness for ramming has also made the fighter a
favorite among the nihilistic Cult of the Devourer. Cultists
can’t usually acquire Maulers by legitimate means, however,
instead resorting to theft, piracy, or hastily constructed shell
corporations. BMC’s leadership now faces a dilemma: how
to prevent association with the Cult of the Devourer from
tarnishing an otherwise famous brand.
Manufacturer Perk: BMC ships are known for packing a punch when they ram other vessels. When using the ramming speed pilot stunt, a starship with a BMC frame is considered one size category larger when determining collision damage for a successful ramming attack.
Name | Tier | Type | Source |
---|---|---|---|
BMC Mauler | 2 | Tiny fighter | CRB p.314 |
BMC Predator | 9 | Small shuttle | NSP p.120 |
BMC Dmolangari | 11 | Huge bulk freighter | SOM p.104 |
BMC Devastator | 14 | Gargantuan carrier | SOM p.111 |
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