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“What the hell! Evasive action! Evasive action! Engines at critical! Ejecting!!!” - John Sheridan upon encountering a Streib cruiser. [1]

Streib cruiser is a vessel of unknown class used by the reclusive and highly xenophobic Streib race. [1]

Appearance[]

Streib cruisers are very unusually bizarre in terms of appearance, being very asymmetrical, extremely aggressive, and very insect-like in design. The vessel also shows what appear to be numerous windows.

Armament and Specifications[]

As one of the most formidable vessels ever encountered, Streib cruisers are armed with rapid firing energy beam weaponry. Streib cruisers are surprisingly fast and agile, and very few ships can catch up with a Streib cruiser. In terms of combat performance, Streib cruisers usually prefer to employ hit and run tactics when capturing species for study, as a Streib cruiser was physically no match for a single heavily armed Earth Alliance Omega class destroyer. However, it’s weapons still proved dangerous to most smaller vessels and enemy fighters.

Streib cruisers are quite capable of creating their own jump points. These vessels are also one of the few ships out there that have their own artificial gravitation on board.

Streib cruisers are also equipped with a single tractor beam used mainly for capturing enemy fighters and escape pods and moving them towards the forward facing hanger bay. In the event of a Streib cruiser’s destruction, Streib cruisers do not seem to carry shuttles, however, they are equipped with a special escape pod craft called “survival pods”, which are designed to carry two individuals.

Interior[]

The interior of Streib cruisers isn’t fully explored, but from what is shown, is that Streib cruisers have several corridors, as well as a surgery room where prisoners are strapped to a table, experimented upon, tortured, and given mind control implants, that increased their aggression levels. The surgery room is also used as a fighting arena where prisoners from various alien races are forced to fight one another in order for the Streib to learn more about their enemies by testing their enemies strengths and weaknesses. It is believed that most Streib cruisers are mostly fully automated but are known to have Streib crew aboard, but probably no more than twenty onboard at most.

History[]

Streib cruisers were first encountered sometime prior to 2259, when they invaded Minbari space, but were beaten back to their homeworld. The Minbari afterwards made the Streib "understand the depth of their mistake."

The first official and only recorded first contact encounter between the Earth Alliance and the Streib came in 2259, when the Streib began raiding the shipping lanes in Sector 92, abducting dozens of individuals. After investigating reports of strange activity in the sector, John Sheridan along with a full escort from Delta Wing encountered a single Streib cruiser, which jumped out of hyperspace and attacked without warning. All but one Starfury were destroyed outright, while Carlos Ramirez's fighter was disabled, forcing him to limp back to the station with a leaking reactor while Sheridan was forced to eject and was quickly captured by the alien vessel. On board the Streib ship, he was subjected to experimentation and was forced to fight against other prisoners, including a captured Narn named Ta'Lon, with whom he later escaped after the EAS Agamemnon, a squadron of Starfuries, and a Minbari Flyer, the Zhalen quickly caught up with the ship at the Streib homeworld. Minbari ambassador Delenn demanded that the Streib release their captives immediately, but her warnings fell on deaf ears when the Streib foolishly decided to space all of their captives rather than surrender. In an angry response the EAS Agamemnon opened fired and completely destroyed the Streib cruiser, obliterating it. Sheridan and Ta’Lon were able to successfully escape the Streib cruiser in a survival pod and were finally rescued. [1]

Apocrypha[]

Canonbox default The following is based on The Mongoose Publishing RPG books and contradicts canon sources.

The fearsome looking collector ship uses its powerful stealth capabilities to bypass defenses and beacons. They emerge from hyperspace using precision jump engine technologies, and rip apart any unsuspecting ships. Escape pods and survivors are snatched up by the Streib, who patch them up, and take them into hyperspace where they perform dark experiments on them. It's a well-armed ship, but rarely does it get into a head-on battle. Like the Shadows, the Streib prefer using hit and run tactics, and will escape direct conflict, striking later at a time and place of their choosing. If the Streib are forced to do battle, their weaponry can inflict a great deal of damage before the Streib escape back into hyperspace.

  • Crew: 20 (plus up to 20 prisoners)
  • Weapons: 2 twin-linked heavy laser cannons, 3 light laser arrays, 1 tractor beam

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