It would be an extremely bootleg Cobra, because even if we have the design we'd lack the components that go into the thing. But yes, this wouldn't be a bad idea.
5km would be the three cargo haulers fused together, that's small for a Hulk.
In all honesty the basic premises behind the idea was 'if we are planning on reincarnating the Harvest Day as a new ship, and we are taking apart a Cobra anyway, why not just learn from that and make our own Cobra?'.
Then we really should deploy a army to it, if we can tow it to our yard we can get a lot of salvage out of it and as space hulks are ships crushed together and this one only includes a single military ship sending just the auxiliary squadron with a army should be enough. Allowing it to float in the area is a risk if it contains orcs it might appear over one of our worlds next turn leading to an invasion.
All of the plans extend us out that far, and why are you assuming Warp Storms are just going to happen out of nowhere? It's 60 LY, that's nothing for 40k FTL, it's practically adjacent to us. We're in a very densely packed area of space, although by the lack of major Forge and Hive worlds what it's packed with is mostly irrelevant fluff.
I resent the truth of this remark (even if it was on purpose).
On the small side, as most of those that have begun appearing tend to be. Four or so kilometers on a side, with rock and mostly recognizable civilian ships forming the bulk of the mass with a military stern sticking out of it like it accidentally rammed the thing when it appeared in front of it.
The thing is what I want out of the project is better armor alloys and shipbuilding materials in general. Because while escorts and so on might be possible to build given our current 'grade' of materials, it's most likely going to be a lot harder as we go bigger.
Could be. It was rather late at night when I wrote that.
If better strikecraft are in consideration, I do have an idea in mind.
What in particular? Because the Fury itself is pretty dead simple: fairly well armored, decent range and speed while being armed with a bunch of lascannons.
Well, the thing that makes better interceptor craft is speed and maneuverability. The idea I had in mind would (dice willing) improve on that. Because if you read up on the Fury, it actually turns out to have quite a lot of space to spare, enough that each one comes with full sleeping berths, toilet etc. Basically, use up more of the space to have bigger engines, possibly a Void shield of their own, and make the crew more resistant to high-G maneuvers.
I mean if you're willing to lose most of your strike craft's range, sure? Then we're back to the current setup where they're more floating PD than offensive units though.
No, as in replace them with something more space-efficient, not remove them wholesale.
Yeah due to them sometimes being used for (relatively) long term scouting missions form what I understand. And it does that time to get from one ship to another in the (rather large) distances of space. I mean even the space shuttle had a toilet and they travel far shorter distances then what the Fury has to.
Well if we want better maneuverability on the fighter, we'd want more veneer thrusters not bigger engines. For the void shield, apparently some patterns have them so it'l be a question to the dice if we can make shields that compact.
Like I said in the post above, my idea is try to replace them with more space-efficient systems.
Let's wait until we can make systems as efficient as the Fury's before trying to significantly improve on them, eh?
What specifically do you want to iron out? Because I expect fixing the speed debuff would be easier if we just made a new heavy frigate unless we want to sacrifice some components, given the information we have on such redesigns, and until this it does seem like a serviceable heavy (relatively) combatant.
True.
It was in the description:
I assumed that by doing another run of design work on the things we might iron out the issues and maybe even get a buff or two on it.
Fair enough, though personally I believe we've got enough other stuff that could use a design action I don't see fixing that as being currently urgent.
True. And of course what we research will also depend on how many slots we get the coming turn which could result in prioritization.
