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[Glass]

For the science department ship, I'd like one based off the survey craft, though with additional tools for mining, as well as some defenses (not heavy ones, but enough to fend off a normal attack).

Anyone else in the department have any specific requests?

[Madman198237]

I need an old, but large and spaceworthy, freighter (The kind with large bays suitable for the assembly of large ground vehicles and small spaceships, as well as some manufactories and regular old science lab stuff. Also, the kind you won't miss, should it mysteriously vanish into a smallish explosion) with lots of interior space. Usually hanging out on the fringes of the fleet, outside the blast zone of a 200-megaton yield matter/antimatter annihilation bomb (I don't have one yet, but you never know...) Mostly robotic/automated crew as well. Any non-robotic positions filled strictly by volunteers.


Honestly, since I'd already like to be using an old freighter, might as well put the mining gear and such for the indy/do-it-yourself/from-scratch inventing on the freighter, which already has the capacity for both the ore and the equipment needed to refine it. The survey vessel can be used for, you know, surveying, specifically research on weird phenomena.

[Glass]

Madman can have his ship to himself.

[Madman198237]

That was the point.

The point that's so disturbingly...sane....that the collective rest of the RDOSA must have done it to me.

[Glass]

No. It's just that I have no interest in staying on a ship that is specifically meant to be completely expendable in case you completely vaporize both it and anything inside of in.

[tntey]

A passnager liner would be good for the diplo corp.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

I could nerd out and say a cruiser should be a science vessel. Original enterprise was one. Science and cruiser.

[Madman198237]

Star Trek is probably not the best reference...considering the little I've seen of it. Yes, you can mix functions, but a vessel purpose-built to be a cruiser is probably going to have an all-enveloping armor shell and whatnot, whereas a survey ship will have sensors everything, powerful sensors meant to gather all the information it can, with thin armor so as not to obstruct said instruments. Also, the cruiser is going to be loaded with heavy weapons and ammo storage, and doesn't want to be made larger, heavier, and slower by the addition of science equipment. It needs all the speed it can get, and doesn't want to be a bigger, more expensive target.

[chubby2man]

I could nerd out and say a cruiser should be a science vessel. Original enterprise was one. Science and cruiser.

Hmm I'm going to let the science department have two ships, one can be for experiments, and the other can be a survey vessel. You can use a cruiser, though it'll be weaker than a military one.

Survey/Raider cross please. Requesting and it from the mad scientists now.

This is fine, just describe how it fulfills both roles.

[Madman198237]

One science vessel is the cargo ship, the other science vessel should be a survey/cruiser mix like mentioned. It doesn't need to be anywhere near the strength of a military cruiser (Though as it's not my ship, I'm not too concerned) but a cruiser hull modified for scientific instruments should work great.

[Glass]

Agreed, a science cruiser would be great. And it'll also have labs in it. Just not ones where Madman works.

[Madman198237]

Nobody likes me and my megaton-yield antimatter annihilation devices...




_{Can't really blame you}

[Smoke Mirrors]

Speed and sensors of a survey, but with the weaponry and attack speed of a raider.

[Blood_Librarian]

Name: Bar'Quaria Marloss
Race: Hanarian
Dept: Navy
Role: Admiral, prefers having their own capital ship, but optional.
Skill: Augmented Fleet Command
Liability: Sensitive Implants. ((Prone to both damage of the digital variety and of the bludgeoning variety to brain case. They don't really "show" in terms of visual looks unless you notice the port on their spine though.))

[chubby2man]

Blood: The Augmented Hanarian. Looks good! You can include what you want to be your flagship in you character descryption however. Should be a strong character!