{"data":{"id":12991,"title":"Vanduul Warship Analysis","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/12991-Vanduul-Warship-Analysis","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/12991","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/12991","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"None","images":[{"id":493,"name":"Enemy-Fighter-Underside.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/11ugl2q56jy8pr\/source\/Enemy-Fighter-Underside.jpg","alt":"","size":406259,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:20:27+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/493","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/493\/similar"},{"id":494,"name":"Vanduul_scale.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/b66meyx8xnif7r\/source\/Vanduul_scale.png","alt":"Size comparison","size":580874,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:20:25+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/494","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/494\/similar"}],"images_count":2,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\n\nAs promised, we\u2019re sharing the universe background articles printed in previous issues of Jump Point. Today\u2019s post about the captured Vanduul warship appeared last month, in issue four. Subscribers get early access to these stories, plus exclusive behind the scenes articles and new stories from the Star Citizen universe each! Anyone interested in subscribing can do so here. From: UEEHICOM, Office of Naval Intelligence\n\nClassification: TOP SECRET\nSix months ago, a United Empire of Earth picket lucked into a true prize: a Vanduul carrier-ship, henceforth referred to as X12, dead in space off Garron. Later analysis suggests that the warship suffered a disastrous engine failure which flooded much of the crew quarters with deadly anti-matter radiation and left the survivors unable to follow the standard Vanduul protocol of self-destruct when threatened with capture. A detachment from the 8th UEE Marine Division boarded the ship and was able to subdue the remaining crew with relative ease. Although no Vanduul survived for interrogation, the ship has provided a wealth of potential information about their culture and habits. What follows is an initial report. Social Organization\nThe ship in question seems to belong to the Goran horde. We now hesitate to use the term clan to refer to Vanduul warrior-hordes because an extensive mitochondrial DNA analysis of material recovered from X12 suggests a wide range of genetic diversity. This raises a host of interesting questions about the unseen center of Vanduul society. We have known almost since their initial discovery by Earth forces that Vanduul are as likely to engage in warfare between hordes as they are with other species, but it is now an open question by what method these hordes are formed. Military anthropologists suggest that there may be a convocation of sorts in which war parties vie to recruit the best and strongest members for their banners, though this is largely speculation at this time. It is also possible that Vanduul spread out of a homeworld and form their hordes naturally. Language\nVanduul script seems to be both infrequent and crude. There is a unified system of quasi-pictographic writing located in brief segments throughout the ship, although the exolinguistic team at the University of Moscow tasked with its study has made absolutely no progress in discerning it. They have found no correspondence between it and spoken Vanduul language, and it resembles nothing so much as a cross between Egyptian heiroglypics and written braille. The ship does carry an excessive amount of video-based media, 95% of which is a single Vanduul speaking directly into a camera. Translation work is underway, although it is estimated to take several years with the available data; we have yet to unearth any kind of Rosetta stone for the Vanduul script. Vanduul video technology is interestingly primitive: simple low-resolution 2D screens with video that appears \u2018overly green.\u2019 It is jarring compared to the modern high resolution holography recordings used by all other known species. Since the general level of Vanduul technology is high and since they have raided more advanced species for generations, it is speculated that this is intentional and possibly a necessity coming from their uniquely structured eyes. Artifacts\nX12 carried a crew of approximately 1,400 Vanduul. The vast majority of these were housed in a series of tightly packed racks clustered around the ship\u2019s engine, and little from this area of the ship is exploitable. There are six apparent staterooms located in the bow of the ship, from which a variety of interesting artifacts have been recovered. Exploration of these personal quarters, believed to belong to the captain, first officer and top pilots, has first and foremost confirmed the Vanduul interest in trophies. Prizes seemed to be grouped culturally: one pilot (?) had dozens of Banu vases, another a small collection of Xi\u2019an rings. The captain, chillingly, displayed dozens of bleached human arm bones on his walls. The culture significance is unknown, but as any privateer can tell you, the Vanduul are not traders. Onboard d\u00e9cor is unexpectedly varied. A major portion of the ship\u2019s interior surface is exposed armor: Vanduul metals tend to have a tan hue, a result of iron impurities apparently present on their manufacturing worlds. Specific rooms, however, are painted with elaborate designs or artificial environments. One, colored with murals of pink-blossomed trees, appears to be a Vanduul recreational room, complete with gym equipment and a swimming area.\n\nAnalysis of personal effects does confirm the importance of the knife to Vanduul culture. A large portion of the crew died grasping their elaborate yet functional knives. Metallurgical study suggests that all knives have a common point of origin, but that they have widely disparate manufacturers. There is some suggestion that individual Vanduuls construct their own knives (handedness musculature in autopsies match irregularities in knife construction in every instance). Knife imagery also appears throughout their media, with printed images of knives being common on the walls of personal quarters. One compartment, termed the \u201cchapel,\u201d feature elaborate stained glass images of knives (imagery which seemed to match the specific knife found in the quarters of the captain or chieftain). Spacecraft\nThe warship itself was towed to Centauri Roads Naval Testing Station for further study. Naval engineers report that the damage suffered in the reactor explosion is too great to ever consider returning it to service. Externally, X12 is roughly equivalent to the UEE\u2019s Indefatigableclass in tonnage. She is heavily armored, with that armor likely amplifying the damage suffered: the same layered system capable of protecting against an estimated three to four torpedo strikes also forced the internal explosion inward to the ship\u2019s lower decks. Internally, she carries an air wing more impressive than even a Bengal-class carrier: roughly three hundred of what have become known on the frontier as \u201cScythe\u201d fighters (their UEE reporting name, Frank, has not caught on beyond the military services). Note that barely one hundred of these were combat ready; the rest were kept below decks as spares. During a full scramble, only a third of the total complement could be used. Per Senate request, the majority of these fighters have since been sold off to private enterprise to finance an important public works project, although Naval Intelligence continues to maintain a squadron for maneuver testing and potential covert operations.","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\n\nWie versprochen, teilen wir die Hintergrundartikel des Universums, die in fr\u00fcheren Ausgaben von Jump Point ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurden. Der heutige Beitrag \u00fcber das gefangene Vanduul-Kriegsschiff erschien letzten Monat in Ausgabe vier. Abonnenten erhalten einen fr\u00fchen Zugang zu diesen Geschichten, sowie exklusive Artikel hinter den Kulissen und neue Geschichten aus dem Star Citizen Universum! Jeder, der sich f\u00fcr ein Abonnement interessiert, kann dies hier tun.\n\n\nVon: UEEHICOM, B\u00fcro f\u00fcr Marineintelligenz\n\nKlassifizierung: STRENG GEHEIM\n\nVor sechs Monaten hatte ein Streikposten des Vereinigten Reiches der Erde Gl\u00fcck zu einem wahren Preis: einem Vanduul-Tr\u00e4gerschiff, das fortan als X12 bezeichnet wird, tot im Weltraum vor Garron. Sp\u00e4tere Analysen deuten darauf hin, dass das Kriegsschiff einen katastrophalen Motorschaden erlitt, der einen Gro\u00dfteil der Mannschaftsunterk\u00fcnfte mit t\u00f6dlicher Antimateriestrahlung \u00fcberflutete und die \u00dcberlebenden nicht in die Lage versetzte, das standardm\u00e4\u00dfige Vanduul-Protokoll der Selbstzerst\u00f6rung einzuhalten, wenn sie von der Gefangennahme bedroht waren. Eine Abteilung der 8. UEE Marine Division bestieg das Schiff und konnte die verbleibende Besatzung relativ leicht unterwerfen. Obwohl kein Vanduul f\u00fcr das Verh\u00f6r \u00fcberlebte, hat das Schiff eine F\u00fclle von potenziellen Informationen \u00fcber seine Kultur und seine Gewohnheiten geliefert. Was folgt, ist ein erster Bericht. Soziale Organisation\nDas fragliche Schiff scheint der Goraner Horde zu geh\u00f6ren. Wir z\u00f6gern nun, den Begriff Clan zu verwenden, um uns auf Vanduul-Kriegerhorden zu beziehen, denn eine umfangreiche mitochondriale DNA-Analyse des aus X12 gewonnenen Materials deutet auf eine breite Palette genetischer Vielfalt hin. Dies wirft eine Vielzahl interessanter Fragen \u00fcber das unsichtbare Zentrum der Vanduul-Gesellschaft auf. Wir wissen fast seit ihrer ersten Entdeckung durch die Erdstreitkr\u00e4fte, dass Vanduul genauso wahrscheinlich zwischen den Horden k\u00e4mpfen wird wie mit anderen Arten, aber es ist jetzt eine offene Frage, mit welcher Methode diese Horden gebildet werden. Milit\u00e4ranthropologen schlagen vor, dass es eine Art Einberufung geben k\u00f6nnte, in der Kriegsparteien darum wetteifern, die besten und st\u00e4rksten Mitglieder f\u00fcr ihre Banner zu gewinnen, obwohl dies derzeit weitgehend Spekulationen sind. Es ist auch m\u00f6glich, dass sich Vanduul aus einer Heimatwelt ausbreitete und ihre Horden auf nat\u00fcrliche Weise formt. Insbesondere sind alle von X12 untersuchten K\u00f6rper m\u00e4nnlich, was darauf hindeutet, dass es eine gewisse zentrale Konvergenz der Vanduul-Gruppen geben muss, in denen die Paarung und andere kooperative Aktivit\u00e4ten stattfinden. Sprache\n\nDie Vanduul-Skript scheint sowohl selten als auch grob zu sein. Es gibt ein einheitliches System quasi-piktographischer Schriften, die sich in kurzen Segmenten im gesamten Schiff befinden, obwohl das exolinguistische Team der Universit\u00e4t Moskau, das mit der Untersuchung beauftragt ist, absolut keine Fortschritte bei der Beurteilung gemacht hat. Sie haben keine \u00dcbereinstimmung zwischen ihr und der gesprochenen Vanduul-Sprache gefunden, und sie \u00e4hnelt nichts weiter als einer Mischung aus \u00e4gyptischen Heiroglypics und geschriebener Blindenschrift. Das Schiff transportiert eine \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfige Menge an videobasierten Medien, von denen 95% ein einziger Vanduul sind, der direkt in eine Kamera spricht. Die \u00dcbersetzungsarbeiten sind im Gange, obwohl es mit den verf\u00fcgbaren Daten voraussichtlich mehrere Jahre dauern wird; wir haben noch keinen Rosetta-Stein f\u00fcr das Vanduul-Skript gefunden. Die Vanduul-Videotechnologie ist interessant primitiv: einfache, niedrigaufl\u00f6sende 2D-Bildschirme mit Video, das \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfig gr\u00fcn erscheint. Es ist ruckartig im Vergleich zum\nmoderne hochaufl\u00f6sende Holografieaufnahmen, die von allen anderen bekannten Arten verwendet werden. Da das allgemeine Niveau der Vanduul-Technologie hoch ist und sie seit Generationen fortgeschrittenere Arten \u00fcberfallen haben, wird spekuliert, dass dies beabsichtigt und m\u00f6glicherweise eine Notwendigkeit ist, die aus ihren einzigartig strukturierten Augen kommt.\n\n\nArtefakte\n\nX12 trug eine Besatzung von etwa 1.400 Vanduul. Die \u00fcberwiegende Mehrheit davon befand sich in einer Reihe von dicht gepackten Regalen, die um den Schiffsmotor herum angeordnet waren, und wenig aus diesem Bereich des Schiffes ist ausbeutbar. Es gibt sechs scheinbare Kabinen im Bug des Schiffes, von denen eine Vielzahl von interessanten Artefakten geborgen wurden. Die Erforschung dieser pers\u00f6nlichen R\u00e4ume, von denen man annimmt, dass sie dem Kapit\u00e4n, dem Ersten Offizier und den Spitzenpiloten geh\u00f6ren, hat in erster Linie das Interesse Vanduuls an Troph\u00e4en best\u00e4tigt. Die Preise schienen kulturell gruppiert zu sein: Ein Pilot (?) hatte Dutzende von Banu-Vasen, ein anderer eine kleine Sammlung von Xi'an-Ringen. Der Kapit\u00e4n zeigte k\u00fchlend Dutzende von gebleichten menschlichen Armknochen an seinen W\u00e4nden. Die kulturelle Bedeutung ist unbekannt, aber wie jeder Freibeuter sagen kann, sind die Vanduul keine H\u00e4ndler. Die Ausstattung an Bord ist unerwartet vielf\u00e4ltig. Ein gro\u00dfer Teil der Schiffsinnenfl\u00e4che ist mit einer Panzerung versehen: Vanduul-Metalle neigen dazu, einen braunen Farbton zu haben, der auf Eisenverunreinigungen zur\u00fcckzuf\u00fchren ist, die anscheinend auf ihren Produktionswelten vorhanden sind. Bestimmte R\u00e4ume werden jedoch mit aufwendigen Designs oder k\u00fcnstlichen Umgebungen gestrichen. Einer, der mit Wandmalereien von rosa bl\u00fchenden B\u00e4umen bemalt ist, scheint ein Aufenthaltsraum von Vanduul zu sein, komplett mit Fitnessger\u00e4ten und einem Badebereich.\n\nDie Analyse pers\u00f6nlicher Effekten best\u00e4tigt die Bedeutung des Messers f\u00fcr die Vanduul-Kultur. Ein gro\u00dfer Teil der Crew starb, als sie ihre aufw\u00e4ndigen, aber funktionellen Messer packte. Metallurgische Studien deuten darauf hin, dass alle Messer einen gemeinsamen Ursprungspunkt haben, aber dass sie sehr unterschiedliche Hersteller haben. Es gibt einige Vermutungen, dass einzelne Vanduuls ihre eigenen Messer bauen (Handlichkeitsmuskulatur bei Autopsien entspricht in jedem Fall Unregelm\u00e4\u00dfigkeiten im Messerbau). Messerbilder erscheinen auch in den Medien, wobei gedruckte Bilder von Messern an den W\u00e4nden der Privatr\u00e4ume \u00fcblich sind. Ein Fach, die so genannte \"Kapelle\", zeigt aufwendige Glasmalereien von Messern (Bilder, die dem spezifischen Messer im Viertel des Kapit\u00e4ns oder H\u00e4uptlings zu entsprechen schienen).\n\n\nRaumschiffe\n\nDas Kriegsschiff selbst wurde zur Centauri Roads Naval Testing Station geschleppt, um es weiter zu untersuchen. Marine-Ingenieure berichten, dass die Sch\u00e4den, die durch die Reaktorexplosion entstanden sind, zu gro\u00df sind, um sie jemals wieder in Betrieb zu nehmen. Extern entspricht X12 in etwa der unerm\u00fcdlichen Klasse der UEE in Tonnage. Sie ist schwer gepanzert, wobei diese R\u00fcstung den erlittenen Schaden wahrscheinlich noch verst\u00e4rken wird: Das gleiche geschichtete System, das in der Lage ist, sich vor gesch\u00e4tzten drei bis vier Torpedotreffern zu sch\u00fctzen, zwang die innere Explosion auch nach innen in die unteren Decks des Schiffes. Intern tr\u00e4gt sie eine Tragfl\u00e4che, die beeindruckender ist als selbst ein Tr\u00e4ger der Bengal-Klasse: Etwa dreihundert von dem, was an der Grenze als \"Scythe\"-K\u00e4mpfer bekannt geworden ist (ihr UEE-Berichtsname Frank hat sich au\u00dferhalb der Milit\u00e4rdienste nicht durchgesetzt). Beachten Sie, dass kaum hundert von ihnen kampfbereit waren; der Rest wurde als Ersatz unter Deck gehalten. W\u00e4hrend eines vollst\u00e4ndigen Scramble konnte nur ein Drittel des gesamten Komplements verwendet werden. Auf Antrag des Senats wurde die Mehrheit dieser Kampfflugzeuge inzwischen an Privatunternehmen verkauft, um ein wichtiges Projekt f\u00fcr \u00f6ffentliche Arbeiten zu finanzieren, obwohl Naval Intelligence weiterhin eine Staffel f\u00fcr Man\u00f6verver und potenzielle verdeckte Operationen unterh\u00e4lt.","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\n\nAs promised, we\u2019re sharing the universe background articles printed in previous issues of Jump Point. Today\u2019s post about the captured Vanduul warship appeared last month, in issue four. Subscribers get early access to these stories, plus exclusive behind the scenes articles and new stories from the Star Citizen universe each! Anyone interested in subscribing can do so here. From: UEEHICOM, Office of Naval Intelligence\n\nClassification: TOP SECRET\nSix months ago, a United Empire of Earth picket lucked into a true prize: a Vanduul carrier-ship, henceforth referred to as X12, dead in space off Garron. Later analysis suggests that the warship suffered a disastrous engine failure which flooded much of the crew quarters with deadly anti-matter radiation and left the survivors unable to follow the standard Vanduul protocol of self-destruct when threatened with capture. A detachment from the 8th UEE Marine Division boarded the ship and was able to subdue the remaining crew with relative ease. Although no Vanduul survived for interrogation, the ship has provided a wealth of potential information about their culture and habits. What follows is an initial report. Social Organization\nThe ship in question seems to belong to the Goran horde. We now hesitate to use the term clan to refer to Vanduul warrior-hordes because an extensive mitochondrial DNA analysis of material recovered from X12 suggests a wide range of genetic diversity. This raises a host of interesting questions about the unseen center of Vanduul society. We have known almost since their initial discovery by Earth forces that Vanduul are as likely to engage in warfare between hordes as they are with other species, but it is now an open question by what method these hordes are formed. Military anthropologists suggest that there may be a convocation of sorts in which war parties vie to recruit the best and strongest members for their banners, though this is largely speculation at this time. It is also possible that Vanduul spread out of a homeworld and form their hordes naturally. Language\nVanduul script seems to be both infrequent and crude. There is a unified system of quasi-pictographic writing located in brief segments throughout the ship, although the exolinguistic team at the University of Moscow tasked with its study has made absolutely no progress in discerning it. They have found no correspondence between it and spoken Vanduul language, and it resembles nothing so much as a cross between Egyptian heiroglypics and written braille. The ship does carry an excessive amount of video-based media, 95% of which is a single Vanduul speaking directly into a camera. Translation work is underway, although it is estimated to take several years with the available data; we have yet to unearth any kind of Rosetta stone for the Vanduul script. Vanduul video technology is interestingly primitive: simple low-resolution 2D screens with video that appears \u2018overly green.\u2019 It is jarring compared to the modern high resolution holography recordings used by all other known species. Since the general level of Vanduul technology is high and since they have raided more advanced species for generations, it is speculated that this is intentional and possibly a necessity coming from their uniquely structured eyes. Artifacts\nX12 carried a crew of approximately 1,400 Vanduul. The vast majority of these were housed in a series of tightly packed racks clustered around the ship\u2019s engine, and little from this area of the ship is exploitable. There are six apparent staterooms located in the bow of the ship, from which a variety of interesting artifacts have been recovered. Exploration of these personal quarters, believed to belong to the captain, first officer and top pilots, has first and foremost confirmed the Vanduul interest in trophies. Prizes seemed to be grouped culturally: one pilot (?) had dozens of Banu vases, another a small collection of Xi\u2019an rings. The captain, chillingly, displayed dozens of bleached human arm bones on his walls. The culture significance is unknown, but as any privateer can tell you, the Vanduul are not traders. Onboard d\u00e9cor is unexpectedly varied. A major portion of the ship\u2019s interior surface is exposed armor: Vanduul metals tend to have a tan hue, a result of iron impurities apparently present on their manufacturing worlds. Specific rooms, however, are painted with elaborate designs or artificial environments. One, colored with murals of pink-blossomed trees, appears to be a Vanduul recreational room, complete with gym equipment and a swimming area.\n\nAnalysis of personal effects does confirm the importance of the knife to Vanduul culture. A large portion of the crew died grasping their elaborate yet functional knives. Metallurgical study suggests that all knives have a common point of origin, but that they have widely disparate manufacturers. There is some suggestion that individual Vanduuls construct their own knives (handedness musculature in autopsies match irregularities in knife construction in every instance). Knife imagery also appears throughout their media, with printed images of knives being common on the walls of personal quarters. One compartment, termed the \u201cchapel,\u201d feature elaborate stained glass images of knives (imagery which seemed to match the specific knife found in the quarters of the captain or chieftain). Spacecraft\nThe warship itself was towed to Centauri Roads Naval Testing Station for further study. Naval engineers report that the damage suffered in the reactor explosion is too great to ever consider returning it to service. Externally, X12 is roughly equivalent to the UEE\u2019s Indefatigableclass in tonnage. She is heavily armored, with that armor likely amplifying the damage suffered: the same layered system capable of protecting against an estimated three to four torpedo strikes also forced the internal explosion inward to the ship\u2019s lower decks. Internally, she carries an air wing more impressive than even a Bengal-class carrier: roughly three hundred of what have become known on the frontier as \u201cScythe\u201d fighters (their UEE reporting name, Frank, has not caught on beyond the military services). Note that barely one hundred of these were combat ready; the rest were kept below decks as spares. During a full scramble, only a third of the total complement could be used. Per Senate request, the majority of these fighters have since been sold off to private enterprise to finance an important public works project, although Naval Intelligence continues to maintain a squadron for maneuver testing and potential covert operations."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":260,"created_at":"2013-05-10T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-30 10:27:24","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":12990,"next_id":12992}}