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Gray Monitor Capsule TIER 4

Starfinder Adventure Path #27: Deceivers' Moon (The Threefold Conspiracy 3 of 6) p.0

Small shuttle
Speed 10; Maneuverability perfect (turn 0)
AC 18; TL 18
HP 40; DT —; CT 8
Shields light 60 (forward 15, port 15, starboard 15, aft 15)
Attack (Forward) light particle beam (3d6; 10 hexes)
Power Core Pulse White (140 PCU); Drift Engine none; Systems basic medium-range sensors, crew quarters (good), mk 3 armor, mk 3 defenses, mk 1 mononode computer, security (budget gray cloaking device); Expansion Bays biological experimentation chamber, Drift shadow projector, sample acquisition bay
Modifiers +1 to any 1 check per round, +2 Computers (sensors only), +2 Piloting; Complement 4 (minimum 1, maximum 4)

Crew


Captain gunnery +8 (4th level), Intimidate +10 (4 ranks), Piloting +10 (4 ranks)
Engineer Engineering +10 (4 ranks), gunnery +9 (4th level)
Pilot Piloting +15 (4 ranks)
Science Officer Computers +10 (4 ranks), gunnery +8 (4th level)

Description


The enigmatic grays, known as only a single part of the wide-ranging conspiracy referred to as the Unseen, are masters of technological advancements, especially in the realm of starships. Reliable and substantiated facts are rare when it comes to grays, as the aliens seem to have ways to erase and even alter the memories of those they come into contact with.
The gray monitor capsule, as it is called by Steward agents and others who attempt to learn the truth of the grays, is a small shuttle that invisibly trails starships as they travel through the void, scanning their systems and observing their occupants. Occasionally, the gray crew abducts a victim from one of these vessels while they sleep, performs experiments on them, and then returns them with no memories of the incident. Starship crews who experience “missing time”–short periods where they have no recollection of their activities–are likely being followed by a cloaked gray monitor capsule. When discovered, gray monitor capsules put up a token amount of resistance but usually flee at the first opportunity.
Most gray monitor capsules are built and deployed near hidden gray facilities to watch out for any vessels that might accidentally trespass upon gray-controlled territory. As such, they lack Drift engines and instead are equipped with Drift shadow projectors that stop nearby starships from engaging their own Drift engines so that abductees can be extracted and brought down to a gray facility. The crew of a monitor capsule tends not to keep the projector running for an extended period, as a prolonged loss of Drift capability tends to make travelers anxious and suspicious, sometimes leading to the discovery of the monitor capsule or the gray outpost. However, as most spacefarers don't fully understand the Drift, a temporary stoppage is often chalked up as a Drift engine malfunction that usually “solves itself.”

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