Malfillion



Malfillion, Rebel Smuggler is a leader who can be hired by the player to lead fleets or fight in ground combats. He is from an unknown reptilian race.

Hiring Malfillion requires initial payment of 100 BC, and 2 BC per turn thereafter.

Unique Ship
This leader has a unique combat vessel, the Windleaf, that they will use when deployed to the strategy map. The Windleaf behaves like a normal leader transport except that it may also engage in space combat. The vessel uses Command Points like a normal ship of its class. The Windleaf has 7x spinal laser cannons, 5x Laser PDs (forward) and 2x Laser PDs (left and right). The ship has Class II shields (central) an ECM jammer, and basic engines. It is unarmored, and uses the pirate frigate hull.

Navigator +10
Malfillion, Rebel Smuggler is a skilled navigator, granting a speed bonus of 10 AU per turn to his fleet.

Blockade Expert +100%
Malfillion, Rebel Smuggler has extensive knowledge of smuggling operations. As a result, his fleet gains +100% effectiveness when blockading an enemy planet. This skill allows a fleet to exceed the normal cap of 25% on the amount of resources that can be stolen from a blockaded planet per turn.

Smuggler's Insight +20
Malfillion, Rebel Smuggler knows every trick in the space-book for hiding valuables from ship inspectors. As a result, when his fleet kills an enemy Merchant ship, he gains 20 BC for your empire per ship destroyed. After his cut, of course.

Ground Combat (not indicated on his leader profile)
Malfillion can participate in ground combat. He has 2 locked skills, his unique laser pistol (range 1-5, AP 2, 10 thermal damage) and another which gives bonus of 25 BC per enemy unit he gets the killing blow on.

Lines
Flavour text on encounter:
 * Let me make this abundantly clear: I do the job, and then get paid. Shiny?

On being hired:
 * We're square then. What's the job? Smuggling? Piracy? Being dashing and handsome?

On being rejected:
 * Well, maybe we'll be seeing each other around then, under less friendly circumstances.

On being fired:
 * You think I didn't see this coming? I'm always two steps ahead, and I know some other emperors who want a man with that kind of know how.

If the player is too poor:

Trivia
Malfillion's name is a reference to actor Nathan Fillion, who played Malcolm (usually abbreviated to Mal) Reynolds on the TV show Firefly. In the movie based on the show, the pilot of his ship says "I am a leaf on the wind" after an action sequence.