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Player > Starships > Manufacturers > Vindicas
Starfinder Starship Operations Manual p.77
Battle-ready Behemoths
Manufacturing Centers: Vesk Prime, Vesk-3
Specialties: Spartan, imposing gunships
Famous Models: Enforcer, Punisher, Tyrant
While Blood Mountain Clans (page 69) emerged from the Gap as the
Veskarium’s eminent and oldest surviving starship manufacturer,
Vindicas arose only a few years later through a merger between
several minor shipyards with military ties. The timing couldn’t have
been better—emissaries from Absalom Station’s system arrived
shortly afterward in sophisticated starships, sharing the gift of
Drift technology and inspiring Veskarium leaders to crave this
new system’s subjugation. Yet the vesk-operated starships that
had conquered and controlled the Veskarium were insufficient
to overwhelm this unfamiliar enemy, and the high despots
demanded new starships capable of bringing it into submission.
Blood Mountain Clans struggled to adapt to these orders, but the
agile Vindicas quickly delivered blueprints for dreadnoughts large
enough to blot out a sun. By the Battle of Aledra in 36 ag, Vindicas
had grown more than a hundred-fold, secured countless military
contracts, and supplied the largest warships created to date.
Since then, Vindicas has specialized in building even larger
and more imposing starships, designed to end most conflicts
through intimidation before they even begin. These ships’
unmatched firepower is in contrast to their amenities, which
are infamously spartan—a point that Vindicas representatives
laud as a feature rather than a flaw, noting that sparse living
quarters encourage discipline and vigilance in the crew. Even
the company’s leadership structure extols traditional vesk
toughness, forcibly retiring any physically unfit executive on
the premise that “any leader unfit to lead an assault is unfit to
lead the company.†Unsubstantiated rumors even suggest that
managerial promotions involve ritual combat.
Thanks to the Veskarium’s nearly endless state of war,
Vindicas continued to grow through the end of the third century
ag. However, Emperor Dmarangor I’s abdication in 296 ag at
the end of the Swarm War commenced a decades-long era of
uncomfortable peace. As Vindicas’s hawkish lobbyists urge the
high despots to declare a new war and its complacent executives
wait out this lull, the company’s sales have steadily declined.
Yet its leaders are aging, and many of the eligible replacements
believe in diversifying the Vindicas brand—not only with a
greater focus on research and development, but also with civilian
transports, cargo vessels, advanced surveillance starships, and
more. But other candidates are fiercely imperialist and dedicated
to the Veskarium war machine. Given the right opportunity, such
Vindicas operatives might trigger a new galactic war to restore
not only their company’s factories to full production, but also their
corporation’s honor on the field of battle.
Manufacturer Perk: Vindicas ships are infamous for fielding huge quantities of weapons. The second starship weapon mounted in each non-turret arc on a Vindicas starship requires 5 fewer PCU than normal.
Name | Tier | Type | Source |
---|---|---|---|
Vindicas Punisher | 7 | Large destroyer | NSP p.122 |
Vindicas Enforcer | 12 | Huge cruiser | NSP p.122 |
Vindicas Tyrant | 16 | Colossal dreadnought | CRB p.315 |
Conqueror of Worlds | 20 | Supercolossal ultranought | NSP p.123 |
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