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Player > Starships > Manufacturers > Death’s Head
Starfinder Starship Operations Manual p.70
Grim Manufacturers
Manufacturing Centers: Eox (the Atraskien Shelf, Orphys)
Specialties: Mass-produced undead starships
Famous Models: Charon, Necroglider, Phantasm
Death’s Head is defined by massive production runs. Its low
prices and easy availability inspire voracious demand, but the
true cost is paid inside its nightmarish factories. Shipyards that
resemble prison camps more than assembly lines swarm with
monstrous laborers. Undead work grueling hours that would
have broken their living counterparts, all while navigating
hazardous conditions and industrial accidents. Death’s Head
takes full advantage of its undead workforce to cut every
available cost and corner. Still, undeath offers no guarantee of
safety from machinery mishaps, so the company always has
vacancies to fill.
Like Blackwind and Thaumtech, Death’s Head was founded
during the Gap but lost substantial data from that time.
Rather than reverse-engineer the company’s own technology,
its leadership chose a faster approach. They took the small
proof-of-concept models found in the company’s hangars,
expanded on the designs just enough for mass production, and
then released hordes of cheap, single-occupancy ships to sell
by the squadron. Though these hastily assembled fighters and
shuttles were legendarily shoddy, they reached the post-Gap
market faster than their Eoxian competitors; Death’s Head has
ridden this momentum for over two centuries.
Death’s Head caters to undead clientele, which makes
cutting costs even easier. Its ships have no need for life support
or environmental controls, and though unpopular with living
customers, the company is a top manufacturer among Eoxians.
The Necroglider is the sixteenth iteration of Death’s Head’s
original single-occupancy design and boasts the lowest price
tag in the history of the model. Numerous bone sages have
longstanding contracts that ensure a near-endless supply of
Phantasms for their forces. Large-frame Charon freighters
are popular with merchants willing to trade life support for
extra cargo space, and Death’s Head pays traders for bodies to
reanimate in exchange for discounted maintenance costs. The
company is careful to keep these arrangements legal, but the
Stewards frequently stop these ships for “surprise†inspections.
Perigost Zephilem (NE male elebrian necrovite) is the CEO
of Death’s Head. Considered eccentric even among necrovites,
he was once the bone sage of a necropolis called Delthani.
Strangely, Delthani has been missing since the Gap ended.
Zephilem has no idea what happened to his former domain, and
he endlessly pursues information that might reveal its fate. His
rivals know how to exploit his obsessions, and they’ve done so
in the past to divide his attentions.
Manufacturer Perk: As a dubious benefit of their haphazard wiring, certain countermeasures are easy to install in Death’s Head ships. Reduce the BP cost to install shock grid computer countermeasures by 1.
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