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Crimson Tide Vittore Montegue's ship Class: Baudo-class Star Yacht Light Freighter Production: Mendel Baudo Length: 32 meters Weapons: (1) Laser Cannon Hyperdrive: Equipped Crew: 2 (plus droids) Capacity: No Passengers (usually) 60 metric tons Compliment: (1) BTL-B Y-Wing - Hunter II (carried externally) Affiliation: Vittore Montegue Faction: Freelance / The Exchange

Contents 1 History 2 Miscellany 2.1 Crew 2.2 Layout

Originally the Iego Angel, this yacht was the personal yacht of Holonet News reporter Atton Kira, until the ship was stolen from a starport on Nar Shaddaa by the Montegue brothers, and renamed Crimson Tide.

Extensively modified, the Tide carries one auxiliary craft - the Hunter II, a vintage Y-Wing - and is crewed predominantly by droids, with the exception of Vittore Montegue and Sadie K'Vesh, for whom the Tide is their permanent residence.

The Crimson Tide is owned by Atton Kira in the The Force Awakens era.

History

The Iego Angel was custom built for Atton Kira a few years after the Clone Wars, paid for with the remnants of his father's fortune. It was the perfect craft for a young and wealthy trust fund socialite: fast, elegant, and comfortable. When Kira began his career as a Holonet News reporter - a cover for his information broker activities - he made a number of modifications to the ship, converting it to run primarily on automated and droid-controlled systems, installing military grade holonet transceivers, and an assortment of codebreaking and intelligence-gathering hardware. He also remodelled the cockpit: two primary consoles accommodated a pilot to the right and a copilot to the left; a communications terminal and astromech socket to the rear provided access to the transceivers and nav computer; and down a short ramp to the bow, an extra console with manual (sublight) flight controls and weapons controls gave Atton the ability to fly the craft into and out of danger on his own.

Atton Kira lost ownership of the Angel while on Nar Shaddaa, when the ship was stolen by Vittore Montegue and his brother. Fortunately, Atton's insurance policy deemed the ship irrevocably lost, and so when Atton and Vittore found themselves in a working relationship some years later, Vittore had inadvertently been responsible for a sizeable windfall for Atton. Using his underworld connections, Vittore obtained new transponder codes; the Angel became the Crimson Tide, and a number of structural tweaks were made - including a new paint job - to help obscure the structural fingerprint of her old identity.

Miscellany

Crew

• Vittore Montegue (Captain / Pilot)
• Sadie K'Vesh (First Mate / Slicer)

• Sleazy (CZ-41) (comms/protocol)
• Katie (R4-K8) (astromech)
• Bumblebee (221-B) (medic)

Layout

The internal layout of the Crimson Tide was designed to suit the needs of Atton Kira - a former intelligence officer turned information broker - but has changed very little since finding it's way into the hands of Vittore Montegue.

The cockpit (1) is configured to be operated by a single pilot, though it additionally includes a communications terminal and a wall-mounted astromech socket - both usually manned by the ship's droid crew while in flight. A large cabin (3) on the port side of the ship is also primarily used by the ship's droids droids: it features a small medical bay used by Bumblebee, a workspace for communications droid Sleazy (though this is often used as a slicing station by Sadie K'Vesh), and the computer interface used by astromech Katie. Atton Kira's private workspace (8), located as far away from the droids as possible, has more recently been converted by Captain Montegue into an interrogation room for captured bounty targets, while the workshop (6) has been converted into an armoury for Montegue's extensive collection of weapons.

Passenger accommodations (7) are minimal, with only two bunks available; this room is currently given over to sole use by Sadie K'Vesh, however. The Captain's suite (2) has a private lounge area, which Montegue uses as his "office"; since Sadie has been aboard, Montegue leaves the door permanently open, and allows Sadie to use the Captain's 'fresher - complete with hydro-shower - rather than the 'fresher located behind the workshop/armoury.