Dagger

The Dagger is a ship owned by Dirk Zendar.

Characteristics
Dagger is 300 meters across and 45 wide, with its appearance being the picture that is shown in its description. Two turbolasers are forward mounted with a 180 degree field of fire. Another turbolaser is mounted on the aft, another starboard, and another port, all with 180 degree arcs of fire. All of its proton torpedo bays are forward facing. It also possesses numerous point defense flak cannons, genuine slug throwers. Its bridge, unlike many other ships, is buried deep within the recesses of the vessel, so that it can't be taken out in a single hit. The bridge crew vies the outside through view screens. Unlike in the picture, the ship has a red and blue color scheme.

It could support a full complement of about 300 crew if need be, but usually there are only about 100: a bridge crew of 5, 2 replacement crews in case someone is killed or injured, 50 marines for boarding or defensive actions, and 30 engineers, 2 medics, and 3 cooks. It's actually set up quite like Serenity from firefly: the bridge up front, followed by crew quarters, followed by the mess, then the medbay, then the leisure area, and finally the engine room.

History
Dirk bought the ship after a few years of working as a bounty hunter for the CIS, taking out high profile targets for huge amounts of credits. It first saw action during the battle of Sullust, where despite reinforcements failing to show up the Dagger gave a good account of itself, thus earning Dirk more favor in the eyes of the CIS. From then on, however, he stuck to hit and run raids against mining outposts and medical facilities, earning for his ship the nickname 'The Bloody Dagger'