Waveskimmer/Legends

The single person waveskimmer was a small repulsorcraft used by Imperial Aquatic assault stormtroopers.

Characteristics
It was able to move under sea. and surf on waves It was a single person vehicle, but two people could manage to ride it.

It carried no weapons, but the seatroopers would fire their infantry weapons while driving the waveskimmer.

Twinpod paracapsules could be used to drop two waveskimmers and two seatroopers from a starship in orbit.

History
Sedri aquatic Imperial garrison was an undermanned garrison in an water world. It had 15 waveskimmers, at least 3 of them were single person waveskimmers. Sedri seatroopers had at least five more single person waveskimmers.

Later, The Strike-class medium cruiser Ion Storm dropped some single person waveskimmers over Sedri, but these weren't usually carried aboard as the cruiser had "stopped in an Imperial depot en route to requisition the appropiate equipment".

Behind the scenes
The vehicle appears first in pages 8,9 and 17 of Battle for the Golden Sun (1988), it appears again (same roleplaying stats and design) in pages 76-77 of Secrets of the Sisar Run (1997). The stat block is too brief and doesn't contain information about the manufacturer. It is just named waveskimmer or single person waveskimmer, but there are many models of waveskimmers, which leads to some confusion.

It doesn't appear in the list of vehicles by Hydrospeare Corporation.

Appearances

 * Battle for the Golden Sun
 * Secrets of the Sisar Run