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[m1895]

"Raptorclaw" Assault Boat
Building upon our boarding skiffs, the Raptorclaw is a comparably sleek fully-enclosed (but not pressurized) vessel.
Large enough to carry two teams into the fray, It also has frontal armor rated for any coilguns below 40mm and most point defense systems. The side doors, meanwhile, are only rated for moderate flak and glancing hits. The pilot sits near the back and above the engines, with "bulletproof glass" making up the front canopy. The engines, by the way, do not propel the Raptorclaw meaningfully faster than the skiffs. Two "wings" positioned on the top back, slanted down provide carrying space for heavy equipment (heavy equipment not included.)

Plasma Dragon
The Dragon is built to replace the SMG in use with our boarding parties.
A hefty son of a bitch of a handgun, the Dragon is usually used with an armbrace. while short-ranged and slower-firing than the smgs, it practically ignores most kinetic-focused armors (though it suffers against rarer thermal-focused types) and can kill a man instantly with one shot. It can fire about 10 shots before emptying it's tank, but carrying spare tanks to slot in the grip is easy.

Blind Joe's Cantina
This world we've settled is harsh and fraught with peril, but much of the local flora is ripe for brewing (and we've done a good job separating what is from what isn't.)
Blind Joe's is the favorite (and only) watering hole in our wretched hive of scum and villainy. Aside from providing somewhere for our spacers to go on shore leave, it has the vital role of attracting new marks recruits to our haven

[Man of Paper]

The Raptorclaw is Normal and not easier due to armoring.

Plasma Dragon is Very Hard. The Energy Handcannon is a departure from your current equipment but within the realm of possibility should your faction wish to swing into the direction of energy weapons.

Blind Joe's Cantina is Theoretical. Infrastructure as a pirate faction ain't easy without having some money to spend on the project It is otherwise reasonable.

[m1895]

"Targe" Boarding Drone
The Targe is a squat block of a drone on 6 stumpy, arachnid legs. It is equipped with two independently traversing SMGs, as well as foot-mounted magclamps and a plasma torch. combined with it's heavy frontal armor, The Targe is built to be the first through the breach, providing suppressive fire and a significant target. The drone isn't exceptionally bright, acting as more heavy equipment for a boarding team than an independent boarder by itself, requiring their direction to act.

"Calypso" Stationary Motion Tracker
A cylindrical body with a screen and keyboard mounted at the top, and magclamps and sensors mounted on the bottom. The Calypso is a piece of heavy kit that, once set up, can detect all motion and its magnitude within the pressurized sections of a ship, as well as any contact and its magnitude with the hull and scaffolding within the depressurized sections (with exceptions for particularly large and "uniquely" designed vessels.) After tuning the Calypso, the operator may connect the screen readout to a mobile tablet, though further tuning is impossible from the tablet, it allows the operator to still view changes without requiring them to stay next to the Calypso. Currently, we expect Calypso systems to be relatively uncommon to deploy.

Improved boarding party v2 (1): m1895
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895

[Rockeater]

"Remora" Manipulation ship
Inspired by the process scavengers use to bring hulks to their facility the Remora is a small ship designed to stick to victim ships and prevent them from running away or aim spinal and directional weapons

Tee Remora is designed around maximizing the effectiveness of it's clamp on it bottom side and engine, all free space in the ship's internal, not dedicated to it minimal cockpit and life support system, fuel and supporting components, is dedicated to powering the engine and clamps to the maximal extend. The ship is fairly wide long and shot to it size to maximize the contact area of the ship with the clamped ship, and although it have some armoring on it top, the ships main defense are it speed when alone and proximity to the clamped ship when not.

Improved boarding party v2 (1): m1895
Condor-Class Corvette (2): m1895, Rockeater
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater

[Man of Paper]

The Targe is currently Impossible. Drones can be a bit difficult to break into and maintain for a fledgling pirate gang, so anything that could affect difficulty negatively does so with extra weight.

Calypso is Very Hard. It's an advanced step but well within reach.

Remora is Easy. It is essentially a remodeled Boarding Ship.

[m1895]

Boarding Party Breachers
Attached to the basic boarding party, the Breacher is a specialist in creating novel entry points though hardened positions. Equipped with a 12 gauge coil shotgun that fires flechette in a discarding sabot (though it should be able to fire any 12 gauge gauss shot), the Breacher can easily put down anyone they see, even through light armor, but the real meat of their capabilities lies in the breaching charges they carry. Each one is a shaped charge capable of punching a good-sized hole through a bulkhead, large enough for a boarding party attack through two by two. To make the most of this, the boarding party has been given proper assault training to clear a room while the enemy is still reeling from the shock. Furthermore, an extra goon has been added to the standard boarding party, who acts as the Breacher's "battle buddy".
Less materially importantly, the entire boarding party receives a paint pot to customize their helmet and the jolly roger on each shoulder.

"Memento Mori" Compact Railrifle
The Mori is a bullpup railrifle that fires 5mm slugs at nearing on hypervelocity. The mori is fed from quad-stacked mags that fit 60 rounds in a fairly short but chunky mag. The trigger actuates a piston in the chamber that shoves a round between the rails as well as actuating the capacitor, and this is where things get interesting, see, the slugs are coated in a material that readily bursts into plasma when exposed to relatively low (which is still really quite high) current, now this is obviously "cold" plasma in relatively low quantities, so it's not going to have any effect on target, but it acts as a buffer between the slug and the rails, greatly lowering rail deformation so we can use the damn things for more than 5 rounds (the pirate who tested the gun also assured us the bright blue sheath on the slug looks "fuckin rad.") The railrifle also notable has an integrated, compact 12 gauge gauss shotgun, and while there is talk of creating "micronades" for it, right now it only fires solid slugs, though any 12 gauge gauss rounds we make should work.

[Rockeater]

Improved boarding party v2 (1): m1895
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (1): Rockeater

[m1895]

Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (2): Rockeater, m1895

[Powder Miner]

Good Work Freighters
Our cargo ships are perhaps the most vital parts of any pirating operation - not only do they carry the enterprising pirates to a location, not only are they what our cargo skiffs deploy out of and into, but they're also the things that carry our precious, precious loot! It would be for the best if we had capable cargo ships that did not fall apart when looked at in a funny manner. Nonetheless, we have, er... little ship-building experience, and it is probably best to hew to the framework of the freighters we currently have. Thusly, the Good Work Freighters are of a basically identical size and shape to most of our Patchwork freighters (you wouldn't download a freighter), being little rectangular crafts that largely contain a boarding party and a small (albeit not skeletal) crew, but are significantly more functional. This is on account of their being largely pressurized (pressurizing the cargo bay being optional), with more functional life support systems. Additionally, the ship has been uparmored to the point that most of its surfaces (it doesn't have many given it's a fucking rectangle) can withstand small arms fire and light coilguns, and the 30mm nose coilgun has been matched with another one on the other side of the ship.

Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (3): Rockeater, m1895, Powder Miner
Good Work Freighters (1): Powder Miner

[Taricus]

Merging voteboxes for MoP's sake.

Base:
A: ()
B: (3) Taricus, m1985, Powder Miner
C: (2) UristMcRiley, Rockeater

Designs
Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (4): Rockeater, m1895, Powder Miner, Taricus
Good Work Freighters (2): Powder Miner, Taricus

[m1895]

Cutback Carrack-Class Freighter
A scaled-down version of the original Carrack, the Cutback Carrack is a rectangular ship only slightly larger than the makeshift freighters currently in use, and while it maintains the same layout of command deck below crew quarters below cargo bay, the second cargo bay has been axed. The armored nose and 3 coilgun turrets are maintained from the original Carrack.


Albatross-Class Corvette
The Albatross is our first dedicated combat ship.
while smaller than the freighter, and only lightly armored, 6 30mm Coilguns on fixed mounts give it a vicious punch. it's aerodyne form also includes wing pylons for heavy ordnance (heavy ordnance not included.) the four man crew consists of the pilot, co-pilot, engineer and weapon systems officer strapped into their chairs, even though the command deck is pressurized, the crew is advised to keep vacsuits on during combat operations. it's engines give it remarkable agility and reasonable acceleration for its class. the crew accommodations consist of a galley/bunk hybrid area (a foodpaste dispenser and one bunk bed) and an "airline restroom" beneath the command deck (while the command deck is horizontal to the axis of thrust for space-saving, the crew accommodations are vertical.) For this reason, Albatrosses cannot be deployed over longs period without another vessel with a cargo bay.

[Man of Paper]

Breachers are Normal due both the training and equipment being given to the unit. It's very focused, and overall the changes are very much achievable. This is about as close to "two revisions as a design" as you can get without it just outright being that, not that that's necessarily a bad thing - individually these actions would likely be Hard Revisions anyways.

Memento Mori is barely dipping into Theoretical. The integrated shotgun bumps the space SAW up from the high end of Hard.

Good Work Freighters are Easy. Minor uparmoring, adding a second existing weapon, and a bit more solid construction for that sweet fully pressurized aesthetic are all certainly demands, but not demanding ones.

Cutback cuts out just enough to cut difficulty back to Hard.

Albatross is juuuust Very Hard since the minimalist hull is offset by the larger number of coilguns.

[Powder Miner]

Great Work Freighters
Our cargo ships are perhaps the most vital parts of any pirating operation - not only do they carry the enterprising pirates to a location, not only are they what our cargo skiffs deploy out of and into, but they're also the things that carry our precious, precious loot! It would be for the best if we had capable cargo ships that did not fall apart when looked at in a funny manner. Nonetheless, we have, er... little ship-building experience, and it is probably best to hew to the framework of the freighters we currently have. Thusly, the Good Work Freighters are of a basically identical size and shape to most of our Patchwork freighters (you wouldn't download a freighter), being little rectangular crafts that largely contain a boarding party and a small (albeit not skeletal) crew, but are significantly more functional. This is on account of their being largely pressurized (pressurizing the cargo bay being optional), with more functional life support systems. Additionally, the ship has been uparmored to the point that most of its surfaces (it doesn't have many given it's a fucking rectangle) can withstand coilgun fire of moderately heavy power and caliber. The coilgun in the nose has been increased to 40mm caliber, and then copied over to the other side of the ship.

Base:
A: ()
B: (3) Taricus, m1985, Powder Miner
C: (2) UristMcRiley, Rockeater

Designs
Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (4): Rockeater, m1895, Powder Miner, Taricus
Good Work Freighters (1): Taricus
Great Work Freighters (1): Powder Miner

[Taricus]

Base:
A: ()
B: (3) Taricus, m1985, Powder Miner
C: (2) UristMcRiley, Rockeater

Designs
Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette (1): m1895
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (4): Rockeater, m1895, Powder Miner, Taricus
Good Work Freighters (0):
Great Work Freighters (2): Powder Miner, Taricus

[m1895]

I'll say that I disagree with PM's assessment that uparmoring and gunning the freighters is better for fending off attackers than dedicated escorts, but what we need right now is hull experience, and the freighter gives us more of that.

Base:
A: ()
B: (3) Taricus, m1985, Powder Miner
C: (2) UristMcRiley, Rockeater

Designs
Improved boarding party v2 ():
Condor-Class Corvette ():
"Remora" Manipulation ship (1): Rockeater
Boarding Party Breachers (4): Rockeater, m1895, Powder Miner, Taricus
Good Work Freighters (0):
Great Work Freighters (3): Powder Miner, Taricus, m1895