Entry: 0078596
Subject: Clan Maki
Status: Fanon
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History: A tiny slice of Mandalorian Society, the Maki Clan has risen to galactic prominence with their recent involvement in the suppression of loyalist forces along the rim. There participation was invaluable due to their unique talents and weaponry. It was these talents that ensured the overthrow of the Mandalorian Imperialists and the restoration of true Mandalorian ideals and philosophy. They became saviors of Mandalorian Culture, a post and title that once would have been thought unthinkable.
Clan Maki is best known for their most distinctive deviation from the Galaxy as a whole, their near addiction to cyberization and technological augmentation. Quite often a Maki child is fully cyberized by their early teens, and it was this unique trait that would ensure the small size and isolation of the clan.
This also resulted in the Maki developing an intense interest in the fields of information warfare and computer technology. There is nothing more terrifying for a member of the Maki Clan then the thought of being controlled from afar through their cyber-brains by some distant slicer. To counter this, the Maki clan uses a completely distinct computer language from the galactic norm, one that is almost impossible to understand by most other slicers. In addition many members modify the operating system of their cyber-implants both for added security and efficiency. In addition the Maki clan has conducted significant research into prosthetics, even making complete prosthetic bodies for themselves and medical causes around the galaxy. The tendency to augment their natural abilities with cybernetics and prosthetics would make them cast outs of the Maki clan, it would also be their keyes to re-admittance.
Clan Maki had once been considered renegades of the Mandalorian Clans, Dar’manda. Only through assisting Boba Fett with his prosthetics did the clan gained acceptance once again in the Mandalorian Nation, but this return to the fold would be short lived.
In conjunction with several fringe elements and MandalHypernautics the Maki Clan went to work on a development project designed to create the ultimate in starship construction, a living ship. The project, codenamed: Arcadia, would turn out to be a disaster for the Maki clan when the two prototypes were destroyed as initial pilot testing was about to begin.
Once again the clan found itself under the ire of a Mandalore. They would remain cast out for over a hundred years, until a neo-imperialist movement would cast the Mandalorian People into a bloody civil war. With the apparent victory of the neo-imperialists and with Mandalore the Immortal, the current Mandalore driven from their home system the Maki clan came to the rescue, uniting with elements of the Fett and Skarata clans joining them to fight the neo-imperialist Mandalorians. Since then the Maki Clan has used its traits and unique abilities to ensure the destruction of these neo-imperialists. After Mandalore the Immortal’s apparent demise the leader of the Maki clan, Ari Maki has temporarily taken the reigns of the Mandalorian tribes until a new Mandalore can be chosen.
EquipmentThe Maki Clan has a number of unique pieces of equipment, ranging from homebuilt starfighters to high utility robotic vehicles and mecha.
The Tra’Baar-class Corvette is the great grandchild of advances made by the Maki clan with the Arcadia project. The ship represents the most dangerous production starship that can be piloted by a single pilot. Like most Maki equipment it requires its user to be cyberized with compatible implants. Unlike the original designs these vessels lack any sentience or sense of self becoming one with their pilot and entirely dependent upon the pilot.
The small craft is armed with a pair of quad class-7 turbolaser turrets, two class-9 torpedo launchers, and a plasmatic particle-beam emitter that can slice through the shields and hulls of most light corvettes and starfighters.
Fast, well shielded, and highly maneuverable the Tra’Baar is a favorite of the Maki, almost every member owns one and has customized it to his or her demands. She is feared by starfighter pilots and those smugglers with marks on their head large enough to attract a Maki’s attention.
The Dral’biskar’strill or “Bright Metal Strill” is a unique piece of equipment which currently is in service with Clan Maki, the unit also is a further development of the Drall’strill’gam which first entered service shortly after the cancellation of project Arcadia, almost all examples of the earlier production model or “Strill Suit” as it was called were destroyed or recycled by the Maki clan when the “Metal Strill” proved itself.
“Metal Strills” are tiny and swift quadruped walkers that have small wheels installed within each foot to enable high speed travel on flat terrain. They are capable of completely autonomous action due to a highly advanced learning AI. While very smart the AI has many of the behavioral mannerisms of a giddy child. Additionally the vehicle may be piloted by a fully cyberized member of the Maki clan. Measuring only about two meters in height they can pack a surprisingly large array of weaponry into their meager chassis.
Each “Metal Strill” is equipped with both a ray shield generator and an omni-directional repulsor-shield. In one of the two manipulator arms there is a repeating blaster cannon, in the other a flame projector. In the center of the vehicle is the primary armament, a magazine fed micro-proton torpedo launcher. All of these weapons may be replaced by other arms and equipment designed for specific missions, such as cutting torches, plasma cannons, and micro mass-drivers. In addition four spray emitters on the vehicle enable it to deliver a unique webbed material, most closely analogous to the spray of a stokhi spraynet, which can act as cables making it possible for the vehicle to travel by swift hops from building to building like a jumping spider.
The Maki’gam or “Maki Armor” is the only traditional mecha in use in the galaxy as a whole. Equipped with a repulsor-shield and ray shielding this towering suit of armor can withstand attacks by most small arms and light artillery. Still, it has little chance when facing the awesome firepower of a heavy blaster cannon or turbolaser.
The armor is impossible to utilize without Maki style cybernetics, this is because the cockpit is completely empty of instrumentation, controls, and even view ports, much like the inside of a “Metal Strill”. Basically it’s a seat with a cyberport. Once plugged in a Maki Warrior turns the suit itself into his body, enabling the Maki to design oversized versions of traditional small arms for the armor. These very from railgun designs to heavy blaster cannons, but all are used by the suit just as an infantrymen uses his own equipment, with his hands.
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