Eamon--
What you describe is exactly the sort of thing that I love to do, and
hoped that players would be doing. There are few things in life I love
more than a million specialized variants of a basic platform. A-3s and
B-66s and C-135s. Also the sort of
human-ingenuity-making-the-best-use-of-what-they've-got sort of thing if
we could have shoe-horned some kind of "Wilds Equipment Sourcebook" into
the production schedule.
Dave
> Reminds me of some ships I designed for a campaign in a proto-Pocket
> Empire in Quinoid Area in the Old Expanses (lots of TL-9 worlds, with one
> with a B port, two with C ports, and a TL-7 B-port too.
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> "Flatbed" - A Stellar Liner cut down to 400 dT, able to lift up to 200 dT
> at J-3, up to 400 dT at J-2, limiting out at 600 dT at J-1.
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> I also had a Bastien which had been bulked-out to 800 dT, J-2, and a TL-15
> Stellar cut down to 480 dT, with J-4 capacity. The latter for use as an
> exploration vessel.
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> There were a few others: Yachts carrying a shuttle and cargo pods, a Merc
> Ship which was a Surveyor festooned with Modular Cutters, and a
> slimmed-down free trader which could hit J-2 and G-1.6-ish.
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> I wanted a feel of both human (sentient?) ingenuity, making the best of
> what was available - with the realization that there was a wall fast
> approaching (obsolescence and a tech slide) that only concerted and
> directed action could avoid, providing the genesis of the polity.
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> Eamon
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>>As far as scabbing an AHL onto the side of a 700k Dreadnought,
>> absolutely,
>>so long as it had extra jump capacity. I.e., if it were only Jump 1 it
>>could not, but any jump over that it would have adequate power for the
>>added load. An AHL is only 60k if I remember correctly.
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