PRIVATE SECURITY · STD
Sentinel Transit Defense
HEADQUARTERS
Eos-7, Wolf 359
SPECIALTY
Frontier security, mining operations and unconventional threats
REPUTATION
Effective but controversial
Overview
Sentinel has the industry's most unusual founder. Its chief executive, Marek Venn, is a former pirate.
Venn spent years participating in cargo raids before abandoning piracy and eventually cooperating with ICIA. He later entered the private-security industry. Whether he genuinely reformed remains a frequent subject of argument.
His knowledge of piracy nevertheless gives Sentinel an advantage: they understand how pirates think because their CEO used to be one.
Craft
Jackal Patrol Craft
Fast, inexpensive and particularly useful around asteroid fields.
- PROPULSION
- Promegen / QV powered.
WEAPONS
- one Vertikron cannon
- one thorium RFG
Hound Escort
- PROPULSION
- PAP / Promegen propulsion with QV maneuvering.
WEAPONS
- two Vertikron cannons
- two thorium RFGs
- electronic countermeasures
Tactics
Sentinel employs deliberately unpredictable navigation. Instead of following ideal interception geometry, its escorts sometimes behave as pirates themselves would — using asteroids, moons, orbital infrastructure and sensor shadows to deny attackers predictable approaches.
Services
Sentinel is especially popular with:
- asteroid miners
- independent shuttles
- frontier settlements
- prospectors
- private expeditions
- small freight operators
Limitation
Sentinel has no interstellar escort capability and has occasionally been criticized for accepting contracts other companies consider unnecessarily dangerous.
Record
Sentinel has suffered casualties during asteroid-belt ambushes.
