Blade

The Blade is a Scro short-range attack spelljammer. It was built by and for goblins but adapted from the kobold-designed Arrow spelljammer model.
Originally solely a Scro vessel, the end of the Second Unhuman War has seen the Blade become adopted by halflings and humans for short-range trips and gnomes and Giff for testing experimental weapons.

Weapons & Armament

The bottom chamber of most Blades is equipped with a Greek fire projector. As a one-shot use weapon, additionally crew beyond the pilot is not normally necessary to operate the weapon, though sometimes more crew than the Blade can safely support over long distances are brought on board when trips are known to be short.
Some Blades are modified as boarding craft and are stripped of all weaponry save for a light ballista to aid in harpooning an enemy vessel. Boarding Blades are generally denied spelljamming helms, as its difficult to recover them, and are instead dropped by a mothership onto an enemy vessel.
During the Second Unhuman War, some Blades were equipped solely with a ram to be used a suicide craft, mirroring the Imperial Elven Navy's use of Flitters during the First Unhuman War. These Blades were also denied a spelljamming helm and were typically given a non-magical engine.
The majority of Blades are small attack craft, equipped with some small weapon and a ram. This makes them quite effective at fighting IEN Flitters in close range, as the more delicate Flitters are almost always destroyed outright when rammed directly, but also make Blades relatively inefficient at fighting larger craft if not supported by a larger vessel.

Class

Spelljammer

Price

3,200 gp

Width

20 ft.

Length

20 ft.

Weight

1 ton

Complement / Crew

2

Cargo & Passenger Capacity

1/4 ton

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