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[Blood_Librarian]

I feel like I wanna put that into ASCII art with REXpaint, but I think for now I'll describe it as "BattleShip with deck guns along with a spinal mount cannon. It probably has a hanger deck or two for dropping marines and other land assets as well, maybe a couple fighters."

Essentially the quintessential fleet ordinance dealing war machine.

[Taricus]

Hmm, I'll just take a battlecruiser. Though I'm definitely ensuring it's the best ship of the fleet

[Tyrant Leviathan]

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

Wanna be ship/bunk mates then? I think there is enough room.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

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.

It's a classic for a reason. Sure it's too utopian for bay12 standards but it has cool toys.

[Glass]

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

Wanna be ship/bunk mates then? I think there is enough room.

The plan was one ship for the whole science department. It's just that Madman isn't allowed to do his stuff on it.

EDIT: also, the science cruiser will be called the Athena.

EDIT2: We've determined the ship designation scheme. It's R_[S or V] [designation] [name], so our ship would be the REV _{(Randiri Exploration Vessel)} CE-1 _{(Cruiser (Exploration) 1st of type)} Athena.
Ones ending in V are military (or at least government-owned and armed) "vessels", while civilian ones are "ships" and end in S. the middle initial is used to describe the purpose.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

So we all have the REV Athena and the cargo ship is to store things or what?

[Madman198237]

No, the cargo ship is because I work with explosives and nobody on the regular ship wants me near them, and for darn good reason.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Yeah, that is a good reason. I call Athenas engine bay. Decided my stuff is on the smaller scale for now.

[Glass]

Any ideas for what it should look like? Are we going for a copy of the Enterprise, or did either of you have a different vision for the main ship?

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Does not have to be the copy of a enterprise model, fine with any design really. Function is what I care about with space craft, not appearance. Most of the time I am on ships that look like birds of prey (angular blade like wings with beak like bridges.)

[Madman198237]

Yeah...so far on Discord we have an egomaniacal anti-biotech (When we've discussed a lot of biotech) Taricus, we've got the genetically unstable SM, Glass the inventor-of-things-that-should-not-actually-function, me the space pyrotechnician mixed with a slight dose of insanity, a brand-new admiral with brain implants (Against anti-implant Taricus), and lots of debate on whether or not the fleet flagship should be called the "Sinkable" and if it's legal to not-really-accidentally kill off Taricus and/or revolt and overthrow the GM-directed NPC President.

[Glass]

We're making the Athena designed to look vaguely like an owl. Ok?

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Well considering all the leader of does based on game describition is declare what we do as a fleet and not micro manage everything (seems more quarter master thing) it's mute he is anti everything. Wish the action was here so I can contribute to the freakken plot.


And yes owl. Athenas animal thing.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

And I am pro npc president sid for I am a dwarf. Honor bond warrior people, right? I knew Tar was anti biot ch so not 💭 ng in that direction.

[Glass]

Yeah, I knew about the owl being Athena's animal.

When I made the discord, I hadn't really considered that some people just wouldn't be able to use it. Sorry about that. :-/

There's not really any plot, just people discussing plans. When the game starts and we make an IC thread, the plot will be there.