Cousin Crow's Custom Craft

Company

Cousin Crow's Custom Craft

Industry

Spacecraft modification

Products

Spacecraft modification

Race

Human

Headquarters

Orison, Crusader, Stanton system

People

Founder

Nampo Vasko

Founded

SEY 2924 (2924)

External sites

Portfolio

RSI Portfolio

Galactapedia

Cousin Crow's Custom Craft is a Human company founded by Nampo "Cousin Crow" Vasko in 2924 that specializes in customizing spacecraft. Many of the Genesis ships sold on Crusader (Stanton II) are converted into branded Starliners for the corporations that purchase them at the company's flagship location in Orison. Cousin Crow's operated only on Lo (Corel III) until 2949, when Drake Interplanetary released the Privateer, a variant of the Kraken that was converted by Cousin Crow's into a traveling marketplace. The publicity from this release brought the company record profits. The flagship store is a high-end ship component vendor located on the Providence industrial platform in Orison.

History

Nampo Vasko was born in New Junction (Lo, Corel system) in 2883. He spent his youth alongside friends rather than completing his Equivalency, and he later stated that his primary education came from the smuggling runs his mother took him on. To pay off debts from her gambling addiction, his mother frequently moved contraband in and out of New Junction, and Nampo's role was to provide a cover story and act as a distraction if any authorities paid the ship unwanted attention.

When Nampo was twelve, his mother suffered her biggest loss wagering on the Murray Cup. To pay her debt, she agreed to "loan" Nampo to a local Banu criminal souli. The Banu put him to work on a wide variety of tasks, and Nampo developed a love for stripping ships for parts. It was through this work that he acquired the first ship he ever attempted to repair himself, a 2894 Cutlass that was later featured prominently at the flagship store opening with a sign describing it as the ship that made Cousin Crow fall in love with ships. Even after helping pay off his mother's debt, Nampo became a regular at the Banu chopshop and grew more entangled with New Junction's criminal underworld. He continued to work on ships and absorbed the Banu philosophy that no design was sacred and that anything could be improved to look or work better. He created ship liveries for fake companies and modified internal layouts to build smuggler's holds. Seeing the credits that smugglers made compared to chopshop workers, Nampo assembled a group of friends and stole a Constellation, which the group reworked into a smuggling ship used for small runs through his underworld connections. In 2905, the Advocacy, acting on an anonymous tip, arrested Nampo and his crew for smuggling and sent them to a rehabilitation facility.

In prison, as his friends fell into gangs, Nampo used his affable personality to survive. His jet-black hair and his ability to move between groups earned him the nickname Cousin Crow, with "cousin" being slang at that facility for someone who could be trusted. After an early release, he returned to his North Block neighborhood and earned credits doing ship repairs and modifications for people he had met through connections made in prison. Because they knew him as Cousin Crow, he used the name when he opened a small ship customization shop in 2924.

Cousin Crow's Custom Crafts grew into a North Block gathering place. Cousin Crow stayed on the straight and narrow while customizing ships to be as audacious or as inconspicuous as their owners desired, and he often hired friends fresh out of prison or looking to leave the outlaw life. The most notable was Tufo Donato, who went on to design several of the company's most famous liveries and the graffiti-style murals later installed at the Orison store. The shop's reputation slowly spread and attracted customers from outside the Corel system. The company's break came in 2942 after it partnered with a luxury tourline company to modify an old Genesis Starliner into a party ship; a large marketing campaign saturated Spectrum with images of the starliner and established Cousin Crow's as a name in ship conversion circles across the empire. A piece of that ship was later displayed at the store opening with the campaign's tagline, "So much fun, it shouldn't be legal."

Drake executives subsequently invited Cousin Crow to visit their headquarters on Magnus, where they showed him plans for their first capital ship and offered him the chance to make an exclusive livery for the launch. Cousin Crow countered with a bolder idea. Many of his clients had hired him to convert their ships' holds into Banu-style marketplaces, so he proposed working with Drake directly rather than performing after-market retrofits. The executives accepted, and the Kraken Privateer followed, sealing Cousin Crow's reputation as one of the premier conversion shops in the UEE. After this success, Vasko expanded the North Block shop and hired friends and family at high salaries, became a collector of classic ships, a patron of the arts, and a follower of high-end street fashion. In 2944, following this success and the earlier party-ship conversion, Crusader Industries approached Cousin Crow about overseeing the engineering team responsible for converting branded starliners to customer specifications. As part of the deal, Cousin Crow negotiated for a flagship store on one of Orison's most heavily trafficked platforms.

When the flagship store opened on Orison in 2949, the event drew such a crowd that the Providence platform registered a record number of controlled bursts to maintain its altitude. Patrons packed the store and overflowed up the stairs in both directions, spilling into the Crusader Discovery Center and the Covalex store. Culture reporter Sabastien Frost remarked that many attendees from Lo had spent their life savings to attend. The store was built from a series of old repair bays formerly used to maintain Crusader's fleet of cargo haulers, and its open design allows customers to watch ship customization in progress. For the opening, the bays held classic ships and pieces of ships showcasing Cousin Crow's most famous modifications and paints, including a piece of the first Kraken Privateer and a replica of the stolen Constellation's smuggler's hold, displayed as his first failed design for not properly concealing contraband. The shop features a triptych of graffiti-style murals designed by Tufo Donato that pay homage to Vasko's home neighborhood of North Block in New Junction.

Location

The flagship store sits on the Providence industrial platform in Orison. It is reached from the tram stop at Providence by following the back railing past the display screens, descending the stairs near the gift shop, and continuing through a door to a lower level.

Items for sale

System components

System Components Updated: May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01) - Alpha 3.18.2

CoolersPower PlantsQuantum DrivesShield Generators

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Grade	Class	aUEC	Performance
Aegis Dynamics	Avalanche	2	A	Military	58,100	N/A
	Blizzard	3	A	Military	146,250	N/A
	Glacier	1	A	Military	19300	N/A
	Permafrost	2	B	Military	49650	N/A
	Polar	1	B	Military	17550	N/A
	Tempest	3	B	Military	130900	N/A
J-Span	Cryo-Star	1	B	Civilian	15050	N/A
	Cryo-Star EX	2	B	Civilian	40400	N/A
	Cryo-Star SL	0	B	Civilian	6300	N/A
	Cryo-Star XL	3	B	Civilian	115750	N/A
Tyler Design & Tech	IceBox	2	B	Stealth	28650	N/A
	NightFall	2	A	Stealth	32600	N/A
	SnowBlind	1	A	Stealth	12850	N/A
	VaporBlock	1	B	Stealth	11950	N/A
Wen-Cassel Propulsion	Kelvid	0	B	Civilian	6300	N/A
	Tepilo	0	A	Civilian	6300	N/A

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Grade	Class	aUEC	Performance
Aegis Dynamics	Bolide	2	B	Military	43,200	N/A
	Fierell Cascade	1	B	Military	17,900	N/A
	Fulgur	3	B	Military	130,850	N/A
	QuadraCell	1	A	Military	20,300	N/A
	QuadraCell MT	2	A	Military	56,850	N/A
	QuadraCell MX	3	A	Military	148,250	N/A
Amon & Reese Co.	DynaFlux	1	B	Military	17,150	N/A
	UltraFlux	2	B	Military	46,150	N/A
	MegaFlux	3	B	Military	124,150	N/A
	JS-300	1	A	Military	19,700	N/A
	JS-400	2	A	Military	53,150	N/A
	JS-500	3	A	Military	139,750	N/A
Lightning Power Ltd.	DuraJet	0	D	Civilian	4,000	N/A
Sakura Sun	Celestial	3	B	Civilian	100,500	N/A
	Lotus	2	A	Civilian	44,650	N/A
	MagnaBloom	1	B	Civilian	16,400	N/A
	Radiance	2	B	Civilian	42,250	N/A
	TigerLilly	3	A	Civilian	165,450	N/A
	WhiteRose	1	A	Civilian	16,850	N/A
Tyler Design & Tech	DeltaMax	1	B	Stealth	10,713	N/A
	Eclipse	2	A	Stealth	74,550	N/A
	GammaMax	2	B	Stealth	59,050	N/A
	Slipstream	1	A	Stealth	18,600	N/A

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Grade	Class	aUEC	Performance
RAMP Corporation	Bolt	2	B	Stealth	53,700	N/A
	Spectre	1	A	Stealth	36,150	N/A
	Spicule	2	A	Stealth	63,200	N/A
	Zephyr	1	B	Stealth	30,250	N/A
Tarsus	Ranger	3	B	Civilian	101,700	N/A
	Sojourn	2	B	Civilian	32,850	N/A
	Voyage	1	B	Civilian	15,600	N/A
Wei-Tek	Balandin	3	B	Military	142,050	N/A
	Siren	1	B	Military	52,000	N/A
	TS-2	3	A	Military	93,700	N/A
	VK-00	1	A	Military	43,300	N/A
	XL-1	2	A	Military	94,900	N/A
	Yeager	2	B	Military	74,350	N/A

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Grade	Class	aUEC	Performance
Ascension Astro	Cloak	1	D	Stealth	14,650	N/A
	Mirage	1	A	Stealth	36,150	N/A
	Obscura	2	C	Stealth	36,200	N/A
	Sheut	2	B	Stealth	44,850	N/A
	Umbra	2	A	Stealth	56,850	N/A
	Veil	1	B	Stealth	22,400	N/A
Behring Applied Technology	6MA 'Kozane'	2	B	Civilian	31,650	N/A
	6SA 'Arbiter'	1	B	Civilian	11,750	N/A
	7CA 'Nargun'	3	A	Civilian	101,100	N/A
	7MA 'Lorica'	2	A	Civilian	30,300	N/A
Gorgon Defender Industries	CoverAll	2	B	Military	33,700	N/A
	ForceWall	1	B	Military	22,000	125
	FullBlock	3	B	Military	52,350	N/A
	FR-66	1	A	Military	18,450	N/A
	FR-76	2	A	Military	38,250	N/A
	FR-86	3	A	Military	136,400	N/A
Seal Corporation	PIN	0	C	Civilian	3,400	33

Vehicle weapons

Vehicle Weapons Updated: May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01) - Alpha 3.18.2

Vehicle Weapons - GunsVehicle Weapons - Turrets

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Type	aUEC
Amon & Reese Co.	Omnisky III Cannon	S1	Laser Cannon	12,000
	Omnisky VI Cannon	S2	Laser Cannon	16,000
	Omnisky IX Cannon	S3	Laser Cannon	16,000
Apocalypse Arms	Havoc Scattergun	S1	Ballistic Scattergun	6,800
	Hellion Scattergun	S2	Ballistic Scattergun	10,000
	Predator Scattergun	S3	Ballistic Scattergun	18,000
	Strife Mass Driver Cannon	S2	Mass Driver Cannon	14,000
Behring Applied Technology	SW16BR1 "Buzzsaw" Repeater	S1	Ballistic Repeater	6,500
	SW16BR2 "Sawbuck" Repeater	S2	Ballistic Repeater	8,300
	SW16BR3 "Shredder" Repeater	S3	Ballistic Repeater	15,000
	EVSD Cannon	S2	Distortion Cannon	7,100
	MVSA Cannon	S2	Laser Cannon	9,500
Gallenson Tactical Systems	YellowJacket GT-210 Gatling	S1	Ballistic Gatling	4,500
	Scorpion GT-215 Gatling	S2	Ballistic Gatling	7,800
	Mantis GT-220 Gatling	S3	Ballistic Gatling	13,000
Joker Engineering	Suckerpunch Cannon	S1	Distortion Cannon	2,500
	Suckerpunch-L Cannon	S2	Distortion Cannon	4,600
	Suckerpunch-XL Cannon	S3	Distortion Cannon	10,000

Manufacturer	Model	Size	Type	aUEC
Flashfire Systems	VariPuck S1 Gimbal Mount	S1	Weapon Mount	1,000
	VariPuck S2 Gimbal Mount	S2	Weapon Mount	2,000
	VariPuck S3 Gimbal Mount	S3	Weapon Mount	3,500
	VariPuck S4 Gimbal Mount	S4	Weapon Mount	6,500
	VariPuck S5 Gimbal Mount	S5	Weapon Mount	11,000
	VariPuck S6 Gimbal Mount	S6	Weapon Mount	21,000

Vehicle paints

Vehicle Paints Updated: May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01) - Alpha 3.18.2

Ship Paints

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous / Other Updated: May 1, 2023 (2023-05-01) - Alpha 3.18.2

Personal WeaponsUtility (Scrapper Modules)Misc (sustenance)

Manufacturer	Model	Type	aUEC
Greycat Industrial	Cambio-Lite SRT Attachment	Multi-tool attachment	320
	Cambio-Lite SRT Attachment (can)	RMC Canister (Small)	35

Manufacturer	Model	Type	aUEC
Greycat Industrial	Cinch Scraper Module	Scraper Module	750
	Abrade Scraper Module	Scraper Module	1,200
	Trawler Scraper Module	Scraper Module	1,600

Manufacturer	Model	Type	aUEC
CRUZ	CRUZ Lux	Food	5
Bevic Group	Vestal Water	Food	3
Snaggle	Snaggle Protein Stick (Pepper^3)	Food	3
	Snaggle Stick (Smoke Daddy)	Food	3

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