Star Wars Unisystem

EQUIPMENT

Availability Table
This table lists the availability codes used in the tables and descriptions below. It is copied from WEG version of the game.

ARMORS

     In keeping with Star Wars tradition, armors don't give all that protection, especially against energy attacks. Most of the armor suits listed below were taken from the d20 version; just to add some diversity.

• AV: Armor Value. The amount of protection offered by a specific suit. An off-the-rack suit will have the AV listed in parenthesis. The number before the slash is the protection for physical damage, the one after for energy damage (blasters, lightsabers, etc). AV can be increased to the maximum allowed by the die roll for 10% of the original price per point (the energy AV rises accordingly). Example: a Blast Vest can have its AV raised from 4/2 to 7/3 for 90 credits.
• EV: Encumbrance Value. The amount of penalty to Speed and Tasks or Tests requiring silence or fast reaction times is based on this (WitchCraft, p.143).
• PA: Protection Area. A quick way to know what parts of the body a given suit protects. H=head. T=torso. A=arms. L=legs. All=all of the body, including the head.
• Cost: Price in credits. Availability, legality and offer/demand rates can decrease or increase these.
• Avail: Availability. Check the table above.
• Notes: Extra abilities and special characteristics of any given suit are listed here.

WEAPONS

SIDEARMS

     All the weapons in the table below are Character Scale. They represent average exemplars of each category, with different brands and models having different specifications. Some of these common items, like the Wookiee Bowcaster, and special ones have expanded entries further below.

• Damage: The amount of blaster damage that gets through armor is doubled.
• Range: Numbers are given in meters (yards) and represent point-blank, short, medium and long ranges. These are the limits: anything below them is within that range category, anything greater goes to next category. Unisystem write-ups usually have an extreme range also, but since I was converting from WEG, I decided to drop them. If you need them, just double the long range.
• Cost: Price in credits. Availability, legality and offer/demand rates can decrease or increase these.
• Cap: Capacity. The number of shots a given weapon may fire before needing recharge. Generator: the weapon gets its energy from a generator and has virtually unlimited firing capacity. You might want to ignore this characteristic if you are running a highly cinematic campaign (we sure don't see the movie characters stop to reload).
• Avail: Availability. Check the table above.
• Notes: Stun setting: the weapon has a stun setting letting it do the same rating of Endurance damage (this is not doubled after armor). Auto: automatic weapons. SA: semi-automatic. T: the weapon has targeting systems or scopes that give +2 on an Aiming (Perception+Blasters) Task, with a folding stock giving an extra +1.

Orbital Sniper Blaster Rifle
Model: Borstel/Taim & Bak NX-5 Orbital Sniper Blaster Rifle
Scale: Starfighter
Skill: Gunnery (Orbital)
Fire Rate: 1/2
Ranges: 10km/Atmosphere/Low Orbit (1)
Damage: D10 x 10 (50) blaster
Capacity: 3 or generator
Availability: 4, X
Cost: 25,000+ credits (black market)
     This terrifying weapon came out of the joint R&D department of Borstel and Taim & Bak. The intention was to create a precision, yet powerful weapon, for use in hostage and siege situations involving planetary-scale engagements. The engineers took a KX9 laser cannon and redesigned it as a sniper rifle that could shoot from a planet's low orbit to its surface. The rifle has one-fourth the effective energy output of a regular KX9, since most of its energy is directed towards maintaining cohesion in atmosphere. This is accomplished through the use of triple the normal amount of galven coils and circuits. High-performance cooling systems prevent waste heat-degradation of internal components, but even with them, the rifle can only fire once every ten seconds. The internal power cell has enough energy to fire three shots, but the rifle can be connected to a generator for unlimited fire. An integral -- and very important --, accessory of the Orbital Sniper Rifle is the XL-500 Holographic Imaging and Target Acquisition System (HITAS), that makes the weapon's mission feasible. The rifle also has a port that allows connection with a starship's sensor suite for increased accuracy. The weapon's great weight (135kg) makes it only suitable for zero-g environments. The gunner fires from a prone position with the rifle leveled up by an integral magnetic bipod.
     To fire this rifle, the gunner must first acquire its target. This requires accumulating several Success Levels in successive Perception+Gunner (Orbital) Tasks. Only range penalties apply, since the HITAS compensates for most of the variables. If the rifle is connected to a starship's sensor suite, the gunner can add the Focus Mode bonus to the rolls. Walker-Scale objects and buildings require up to three Success Levels. Character-Scale targets usually require 10 Success Levels. Once the target is acquired, the gunner can fire. Note that this weapon is Starfighter-Scale, so damage must be adjusted accordingly.
     Before releasing the rifle on the market, Borstel and Taim & Bak held a demonstration to Imperial and law enforcement officers from several worlds. Despite the designers enthusiasm, the weapon failed to impress the crowd gathered. Although everybody agreed the technical feat of producing that weapon was worthy of praise, they thought it too cumbersome and of limited application. Imperial officers agreed on the lack of usefulness of the rifle for the Empire, but quickly recognized the danger it would pose in the hands of subversive organizations. At the end of the demonstration, they arrested the engineers responsible for the project, confiscated all the copies of the design plans and fined Borstel and Taim & Bak. When they aprehended the rifles already produced, the officers realized 8 units were missing. Rumors say that, of the eight unaccounted for-rifles, one or two may have found their way to both the Black Sun organization and the Tenloss Syndicate; two others belong to Hutt clans; and one is now the property of the notorious assassin Talos Cain.

Wookiee Bowcaster
Model: Wookiee bowcaster
Scale: Character
Skill: Hand Weapons (Bowcaster)
Fire Rate: 1
Ranges: 3/10/30/50m
Damage: D6 x 7 (21) blaster
Capacity: 6
Availability: 3, R
Cost: 900 credits
     The Wookiee bowcaster fires explosive darts surrounded by an energy cocoon. This field increases the penetration power of the dart, allowing it to punch through armor more easily before exploding. Against bowcaster shots, the characters uses his armor's energy AV. Damage that gets through the armor's AV is doubled due to the explosive charge. If the character finds himself with an empty gas chamber (to generate the energy cocoon), he can still fire the dart, but now it must punch through the armor's physical AV. Damage that gets through is still doubled.
     Bowcasters must be cocked after every shot. This requires a Difficult Strength Test, with Extra Action penalties when appropriate.
     Many Wookiees customize their bowcasters adding a second string, or extra bows, or automatic cocking systems.
     

MELEE

• Damage: The amount of damage for a given weapon.
• Range: Numbers are given in meters (yards) and represent point-blank, short, medium and long ranges. These are the limits: anything below them is within that range category, anything greater goes to next category.
• Cost: Price in credits. Availability, legality and offer/demand rates can decrease or increase these.
• Avail: Availability. Check the table above.
• Notes: S/S: Slashing/stabbing weapon. AP: Armor piercing weapon; divide target's AV by the number. *In the case of lightsabers, the resulting AV will abosrb damage, but only once, and teh armor is destroyed in the process. E: Energy damage.

EXPLOSIVES

• Damage: The first multiplier is for Ground Zero range, the second is for General Effect and the third for Maximum Range.
• Range: Numbers are given in meters (yards) and represent Ground Zero, General Effect and Maximum Range. These are the limits: anything below them is within that range category, anything greater goes to next category.
• Cost: Price in credits. Availability, legality and offer/demand rates can decrease or increase these.
• Avail: Availability. Check the table above.

HEAVY

     All the weapons listed in this section require the appropriate Gunnery Skill to be operated.

Anti-Orbital Ion Cannon
Model: KDY v-150 Planet Defender
Type: Heavy Ion Surface-To-Space Cannon
Scale: Capital
Size: 12 (only for purpose of determining target's maximum size)
Toughness: 5
DC: 500
Fire Rate: 1/1
Accuracy: 5
Ranges: Atmosphere/Low Orbit (1)/High Orbit (3)
Strength: 24
Availability: 3, X
Cost: 500,000 credits (new), 100,000 (used)

Atgar Anti-Vehicle Tower
Model: Atgat 1.4 FD P-Tower
Type: Light Anti-Vehicle Laser Cannon
Scale: Speeder
Toughness: 2
DC: 20
Fire Rate: 1/2
Accuracy: 1
Ranges: 10/500/2km/10km
Damage: D8 x 12 (48) blaster
Availability: 2, R or X
Cost: 10,000 credits (new), 2,000 (used)

OTHERS

     This section lists all the other equipment that requires some conversion. Not much so far.

MEDICAL

Bacta Tank
Avail: 2, R.
Cost: 3000
      The ultimate in healing technology, a bacta tank allows a character to recover 2 Life Points per hour. Setting a bacta tank is a Moderate Intelligence+Medicine Task, but a ready bacta tank can be used by anyone with at least 2 levels in Medicine without a roll.

Medpac
Avail: 1
Cost: 100
     A high-tech First Aid kit, it gives +3 to a First Aid Task to cure damage or to stabilize a dying character. The Medpac possesses advanced diagnostic systems that can guide an unskilled person in performing First Aid, as such, these people doesn't suffer the unskilled penalty and have the +3 bonus as well. Once used, however, it is spent.

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