If the opponent is upwind, the range increases to 360 feet if downwind, it drops to 90 feet. The neodog can detect opponents within 180 feet by sense of smell.
The neodog can identify familiar odors just as humans do familiar sights. Scent: This special quality allows the neodog to detect approaching enemies, sniff out hidden foes and track by sense of smell. It retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions. Low-Light Vision: A neodog can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight and similar conditions of shadowy illumination. Intuition: Calebs have the ability to simply ‘feel’ their surroundings and get a sense of danger – it can use to its handler’s benefit as well as its own through the bond they share.
Darkvision is black and white only, but it is otherwise like normal sight and the creature can function just fine with no light at all. The creature takes normal damage from energy and psychic attacks.ĭarkvision: A neodog can see in the dark up to 90 feet. Wounds either heal immediately or the attack bounces off harmlessly (in either case, the opponent knows the attack was ineffective). If detonated, it instantly kills the creature carrying it.ĭamage Reduction: A neodog ignores some damage from all physical attacks. Core bombs are explosive weapons and should be treated as such. Core bombs can be activated either by the neodog itself in case of capture or the handler if there is no other recourse. They also take care of any problems that might occur if a neodog’s conditioning breaks and it becomes a threat to others. Each Pathfinder Neodog carries a powerful explosive charge, ensuring that it has a good chance of a final strike against any enemies and also that it does not suffer greatly if mortally wounded.Ĭore Bomb: This is less a special feature than a control device to ensure neodogs never fall into enemy hands. Pathfinder neodogs were the forerunners of the Mk II Neodog, now available throughout the Mobile Infantry, and were the first to use potentially any breed of dog as the basis of genetic reconstruction, rather than the Alsatian/wolf hybrids of the first calebs. In the rush to get the Pathfinder class prototype commissioned, the components to make the secondary and tertiary hulls completely self-sufficient were not yet installed.Īfter a major refitting in early 2378, the MVAM features of the USS Miranda-B were fully enabled, at approximately the same time as the Miranda's sister ships, Pathfinder and Stargazer, were completed.In common with much of the other equipment used by the Pathfinders, the Neodogs of these Platoons are fitted with experimental modules, and are genetically enhanced through specialized breeding programs to be stronger, quicker, and tougher – vital for the missions they face alongside their Pathfinder masters. Launched in 2377, the USS Miranda-B was assigned to units on the outer Federation territories to perform patrol and presence missions, as well as the routine mapping and exploration duties that any Starfleet vessel is expected to carry out. This vessel was initially named USS Pathfinder, but recommissioned USS Miranda-B at the request of Fleet Admiral Victor Murdock and in honor of the previous vessel to bear the name, the Jupiter-class USS Miranda (NCC-77000-A). In 2377 the Pathfinder class was launched and designated as the ultimate in front-line explorers. By 2376 the prototype was completed and began her shakedown cruise shortly thereafter. The Pathfinder Class Development Project began the year following confirmed approvals from Starfleet Command and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. " Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas Construction The last three vessels to bear the name have borne the following quote: This quote adorned the commissioning plaque of the first two starships to bear the name Miranda. "O, wonder!" How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" One might recognize this quote from Miranda in Act V: Some travelers from their country land on the island and Miranda falls in love with the young prince, who ends up rescuing them and bringing them back to civilization. The pair were abandoned on an island by some enemies of Prospero. Miranda is also the only daughter of Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The moon was the first location that dilithium was discovered naturally, and enabled warp speed to become an operative mode of travel rather quickly. Miranda, in astronomy, one of the moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus.