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EXT. NEON - SPACEPORT LANDING PAD - DAY

Rain slicks the metal plating of the landing pad, reflecting the garish neon glow of the city towers piercing the gray skies of Volii Alpha.

The Stingray T settles heavily onto the damp deck, its thrusters venting a hiss of superheated steam.

LEO (40s, weathered trench coat, eyes sharp as glass) steps down the ramp. As he looks up toward the towering silhouettes of the skyline, the distinct thruster growl of a departing vessel tears through the air.

Leo tracks it. The ship’s silhouette is unique, unmistakably sporting heavy-grade ASC Taiyo structural components. It banks hard into the clouds, leaving no transponder code behind.

INT. RYUJIN INDUSTRIES - WIZZACKR’S OFFICE - DAY

Heavy paranoia permeates the air. Ryujin’s corporate opulence has been thoroughly retrofitted.

Wizzackr’s personal and cyber-security teams—hardened mercenaries and white-hat netrunners—patrol the corridors alongside the usual Ryujin guards. It is a fortress within a fortress, designed to keep the invisible knives of the galaxy at bay.

Leo strides past Wizzackr’s assistant, who offers a brief nod. Leo pushes open the heavy titanium door and steps inside. Wizzackr sits behind a massive obsidian desk, illuminated by flickering holo-screens.

WIZZACKR: You made it through the rain, Leo. Talk to me. Did Callie, Drazhan, and Jackson dig up anything on the Colltech breach?

Leo takes a seat across from the CEO, his expression grim.

LEO: More than we bargained for. Drazhan managed to deep-cover infiltrate the strike team. It’s not a standard corporate espionage outfit. It’s an amalgam—spawned from the gutter-sweep remnants of the Crimson Fleet, rogue Ecliptic mercenaries, and violent Spacers working in tandem.

WIZZACKR: A coalition of the damned. To what end? Just extortion?

LEO: No. Drazhan found out the attack’s primary directive was twofold: completely shut down Colltech’s heavy ship manufacturing lines, and siphon deeply buried, classified archives.

WIZZACKR: And Callie and Jackson?

LEO: Undercover as corporate security and Coll’s new personal assistant. They uncovered the stolen data package. It covers everything—Coll’s personal transit schedules, security protocols, right down to family vitals and residential locations. They’re exposed, Wizzackr.

WIZZACKR: Then we have a war on our hands. What's your play?

LEO: We expand the board. I pulled files from the recent United Colonies academy graduates. Meet Pearl. Top of her class in close-quarters weapons, lethal stealth profiling, and raw tactical intuition.

Leo slides a datapad across the desk.

LEO: (CONT'D) And to back her up, I pulled a mid-term Freestar Ranger named Isaac. Ninety percent closure rate on volatile cases. The remaining ten percent aren't failures—he’s just quietly letting them simmer until the targets slip up. He prefers heavy pistols and custom blades. Keeps a low, lethal profile. I’ve dispatched them both to secure Coll’s family off-world.

WIZZACKR: Good. We need hounds that don't bark before they bite.

Leo stands, pacing toward the floor-to-ceiling glass looking out over the neon sprawl.

LEO: One more thing, Wizzackr. As I touched down, I saw a ship leaving with a custom ASC Taiyo build. Whose was it?

WIZZACKR: (Smiles thinly) Cyber Vin Louis. CVL. A master shipwright who values absolute shadow-state privacy.

Wizzackr taps his console, sending a encrypted comm-ping.

WIZZACKR: (CONT'D) Let’s see if he’ll humor an introduction. CVL says yes, on one condition, I escort you personally to his private shipyard. The location stays dark.

LEO: Fair enough. I know the value of an invisible dock.

EXT. CYBER VIN LOUIS SHIPYARD - TROPICAL WORLD - DAY

The air is thick, humid, and smells of salt and heavy foliage. It reminds Leo sharply of the resort world Paradiso, save for the hum of heavy industrial fabrication hidden beneath the jungle canopy.

CYBER VIN LOUIS: (50s, ink-stained fingers, piercing cybernetic ocular implant) waits on the scorched landing pad beside Wizzackr’s updated Hayabusa. He nods in greeting, leading them past towering ferns to a massive hangar bay.

Inside rests the Akagane Liner.

CYBER VIN LOUIS: Magnificent, isn’t it? Modular frame, reinforced bulkheads, zero-signature dampening nodes woven straight into the hull plating.

Leo runs a hand along the brushed metal, studying the interior layout as Cyber guides them through the vessel. The architecture is a masterpiece of efficiency and defensive flow.

LEO: It’s a work of art, CVL. But luxury passenger transport isn't what I need right now. I need an apex predator. I’m taking the fight back to the bastards who hit Colltech. I’m building a prison ship.

EXT. KREET - SHIP SHOP - DAY

The arid winds of Kreet whip across the landing fields. Leo stands at the console of the local ship technician, rewriting the schematics of the Akagane from the hull up.

He locks in a three-deck prison transport layout. Deck 0 houses the massive aft landing bay—a 134LSE Landing Bay B Aft—anchoring the ship's heavy underbelly.

Leo steps up into Deck 1. He configures a Stroud Premium Edition Battle Station (2x2) as the central tactical hub. Through the fore-aft doorway, he drops a SPE 2-Story Staircase on the port side. Forward of the stairs sits a pristine SPE Infirmary (1x1), while starboard plays host to a heavy-duty SPE Brig (2x1 Aft) designed to hold the worst scum the galaxy has to offer.

He climbs the stairs to Deck 2. A starboard doorway leads directly into another SPE Brig (2x1 Aft) for maximum containment overflow. Aft of that secondary brig lies a sprawling SPE Crew Dormitory (2x1). Forward of the stairwell sits an expansive SPE Control Station (3x1).

Tied into the mid-starboard doorway of the control station is an intimate SPE Captain’s Quarters (1x1 Stbd). Pushing through the forward starboard door, Leo routes into a TIG Half (2x1) hallway, seamlessly connecting an ASC-T Tanto flight pod to the port side for rapid tactical deployment. Capping the extreme forward end of the hallway is a TIG Long Range Docker.

Next comes the ghost-making hardware.

Leo slams his fist onto the console, routing raw power through a massive DPA Insanity 8000 Grav reactor. He links the system to a catastrophic Dsa MS70C Singularity Drive.

To keep the beast unscratchable, he bolts down a Singularity C-50 Omni Shield generator, pumping out a staggering 50,000 units of absolute energy deflection. This is reinforced by a dual pairing of TIG Class C Assurance T9B shield boosters, flanked by heavy Matilija’s Aerospace HMF-V shield boosters.

For the hunt, Leo installs a Matilija’s Aerospace XMA9 Scanning Radar Dish to completely obliterate weapon lock-on times, slash power costs, minimize targeting delays, and mask contraband signatures. Finally, he seals the belly with an ASC-D Multi-Frequency Scan Jammer and a Multi-Purpose Sensor Suite Dome Top.

The ship hums to life, the dark metal drinking in the harsh Kreet sunlight. It is heavily armed, entirely invisible to scans, and built for a relentless hunt.

Leo climbs aboard the ramp. The war against the fractured syndicates has officially begun.

The ships specs:

Fuel = 10,480, Hull = 7269, Cargo = 1,000,325 (4,951,609 with skill and TN) Shielded Capacity = 1,000,000, C Class Reactor = 216 (### with skill), Crew = 14, Jump = 144, Shield = 60800 (103,360 with skill). Prisoner beds = 28.

Top speed is = 197 (non-boosted and with skill), Boosted top speed is = 762 (with skill)

Mob = 100, Mass = 1457

Weapons:

Par = 482 (4 x Kit Bash 250 MeV Alpha Beams), Par = 691 (6 x DSA MPb-Mark-X Obliterators), and EM = 10 (7 x Neutralizer 112MeV Gamma EM Turrets)

Huge thanks to CyberVinLoius (Cardinal151515) for posting the build video for the Akagane Liner. Here is the reddit post of it and Youtube build:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarfieldShips/comments/1vjvgh0/rs23_akagane_liner_ryujin_industries/

Youtube build video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhryP8pbCQ4

Stop by to both and give them some love if you like the build.

Interior Video of Akagane III:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ERS_Shipbuilder/comments/1vlrjti/akagane_iii_interior_video/

Battle video of Akagane III: