StarCitizen:Cousin Crow's Custom Craft

Cousin Crow's Custom Craft is a StarCitizen:Human company founded by Nampo "Cousin Crow" Vasko in StarCitizen:2924 that specializes in customizing spacecraft. Many of the Genesis ships sold on StarCitizen:Crusader (Stanton II) are converted into branded StarCitizen:Starliners for the corporations that purchase them at the company's flagship location in StarCitizen:Orison. Cousin Crow's operated only on StarCitizen:Lo (Corel III) until 2949, when StarCitizen:Drake Interplanetary released the Privateer, a variant of the StarCitizen:Kraken that was converted by Cousin Crow's into a traveling marketplace. The publicity from this release brought the company record profits.<ref name="galactapedia">Template:Cite RSI</ref> The flagship store is a high-end ship component vendor located on the StarCitizen:Providence industrial platform in Orison.<ref name="ig315">Template:Cite game</ref>

History

Nampo Vasko was born in StarCitizen:New Junction (StarCitizen:Lo, StarCitizen: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.<ref name="portfolio">Template:Cite RSI</ref>

When Nampo was twelve, his mother suffered her biggest loss wagering on the StarCitizen:Murray Cup. To pay her debt, she agreed to "loan" Nampo to a local StarCitizen: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 StarCitizen: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 StarCitizen:Constellation, which the group reworked into a smuggling ship used for small runs through his underworld connections. In 2905, the StarCitizen:Advocacy, acting on an anonymous tip, arrested Nampo and his crew for smuggling and sent them to a rehabilitation facility.<ref name="portfolio" />

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.<ref name="portfolio" />

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 StarCitizen:Corel system. The company's break came in 2942 after it partnered with a luxury tourline company to modify an old StarCitizen:Genesis Starliner into a party ship; a large marketing campaign saturated StarCitizen: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."<ref name="portfolio" />

Drake executives subsequently invited Cousin Crow to visit their headquarters on StarCitizen: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 StarCitizen:Kraken Privateer followed, sealing Cousin Crow's reputation as one of the premier conversion shops in the StarCitizen: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.<ref name="portfolio" /> In 2944, following this success and the earlier party-ship conversion, StarCitizen: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.<ref name="portfolio" />

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 [[StarCitizen::Category:Cargo ships|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.<ref name="portfolio" />

Location

The flagship store sits on the StarCitizen:Providence industrial platform in StarCitizen: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.<ref>"It's a little hard to find at first.", u/Appropriate-Math422, reddit, November 7 2023</ref>

Items for sale

System components

Template:Note <tabber> Coolers=

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

|-| Power Plants =

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

|-| Quantum Drives =

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

|-| Shield Generators =

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

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Vehicle weapons

Template:Note <tabber> Vehicle Weapons - Guns =

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

|-| Vehicle Weapons - Turrets =

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

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Vehicle paints

Template:Note <tabber> Ship Paints =

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Miscellaneous

Template:Note <tabber> Personal Weapons =

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

|-| Utility (Scrapper Modules) =

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

|-| Misc (sustenance) =

</tabber>

References

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