[X] Plan: Work Smarter not Harder
-[X] (Bridge) Groupsight Bridge: Designed with future ships bearing Macrocannon and Lance Batteries in mind, this bridge improves on the shipboard weapons' fire control systems. The cogitator slaving framework has been adapted from designs of automated air defense batteries and spliced with the standard logic engines that allow a gun crew to plot a trajectory across the depths of space to its intended target. While not automating the process, reducing the gun crew's need to aim the weaponry beyond minute adjustments is projected to increase the coordination of future barrages significantly.
-[X] (Weapon) 'Duet' Pattern Torpedo Launchers: Very loosely based on the atomic armed rockets of our current missile based broadside option, the 'Duet' Pattern Torpedoes, and their associated launchers, are much, much larger. Faced with the needs of stamina for long distance flight, armor to resist enemy point defense, and power to pose a threat to enemy ships, the designs of the Duet were forced to scale their designs significantly up. The price of that is that each set of the 'Duet' pattern includes only two launchers, thus launching only two torpedoes per firing cycle. But the profit is that torpedoes can be launched at all, armored enough to survive the enemy defenses, given autocannon clusters of their own to drive away enemy fighters, and with warheads big enough not only to threaten other escorts, but enemy cruisers, defense stations, and even, when sufficiently massed, the dreaded orkish space hulks.
-[X] (Macrocannon Add-on) Plasma Bore Shells: While cheap to make and more than sufficient for battering down enemy Void Shields, the kinetic penetrators that are being used in our current Macrocannon Batteries are not sufficient for the armour plating that is present on proper warships. To that end, a new specialty munition has been designed to be used on vessels that have lost or never possessed shielding. A Macrocannon solid shell has been hollowed out, with a compact plasma generator stripped of its safety features and emergency shutoffs installed at the core. A proximity fuze at the shells tip will trigger at the point of imminent impact, activating a scaled-up version of the handheld plasma torches used by void bound technicians, to form a globe of plasma that acts as a plasma 'drill', driven by the shells momentum. Once the shell has penetrated into the hull, the plasma generator will eventually burn out its magnetic containment fields and unleash a blast of plasma within the target.
-[X] (Defense) Scaffold Armour: Instead of welding additional material directly onto the hull, a new method has been developed for installing armour plating on our vessels. The load-bearing struts that form the skeleton of a ship's superstructure are extended past the hull cladding, from which spreads out a framework upon which interlocking plates are then welded onto. In addition to reducing the complexity of fabricating the plates for every differently shaped hull, the space between the armour and the actual hull is projected to reduce the effectiveness of enemy lance batteries, boarding craft and even somewhat mitigate torpedo impacts.
[X] Plan Essentially Engines
-[X] (Bridge) Groupsight Bridge: Designed with future ships bearing Macrocannon and Lance Batteries in mind, this bridge improves on the shipboard weapons' fire control systems. The cogitator slaving framework has been adapted from designs of automated air defense batteries and spliced with the standard logic engines that allow a gun crew to plot a trajectory across the depths of space to its intended target. While not automating the process, reducing the gun crew's need to aim the weaponry beyond minute adjustments is projected to increase the coordination of future barrages significantly.
-[X] (Weapon) 'Duet' Pattern Torpedo Launchers: Very loosely based on the atomic armed rockets of our current missile based broadside option, the 'Duet' Pattern Torpedoes, and their associated launchers, are much, much larger. Faced with the needs of stamina for long distance flight, armor to resist enemy point defense, and power to pose a threat to enemy ships, the designs of the Duet were forced to scale their designs significantly up. The price of that is that each set of the 'Duet' pattern includes only two launchers, thus launching only two torpedoes per firing cycle. But the profit is that torpedoes can be launched at all, armored enough to survive the enemy defenses, given autocannon clusters of their own to drive away enemy fighters, and with warheads big enough not only to threaten other escorts, but enemy cruisers, defense stations, and even, when sufficiently massed, the dreaded orkish space hulks.
-[X] (Defense) Scaffold Armour: Instead of welding additional material directly onto the hull, a new method has been developed for installing armour plating on our vessels. The load-bearing struts that form the skeleton of a ship's superstructure are extended past the hull cladding, from which spreads out a framework upon which interlocking plates are then welded onto. In addition to reducing the complexity of fabricating the plates for every differently shaped hull, the space between the armour and the actual hull is projected to reduce the effectiveness of enemy lance batteries, boarding craft and even somewhat mitigate torpedo impacts.
-[X] Militarized Merchant Engines (Engines) : No matter how tuned, Merchant Grade engines were not designed for military duty. Meant primarily for economy of use, they were never meant to face some of the challenges the Crusade is now facing, which means new engines are required. While these designs can still be traced to their roots as merchant engines, the Mechanicus of Calavar has done a substantial reconfiguration in search for the qualities needed in military engines. This triad of traits are hardiness, reliability, and power, which will allow the ships of the Calavar Crusade to progress triumphantly through the void for yet more years.
[X] Plan The Essentials
-[X] (Bridge) Groupsight Bridge: Designed with future ships bearing Macrocannon and Lance Batteries in mind, this bridge improves on the shipboard weapons' fire control systems. The cogitator slaving framework has been adapted from designs of automated air defense batteries and spliced with the standard logic engines that allow a gun crew to plot a trajectory across the depths of space to its intended target. While not automating the process, reducing the gun crew's need to aim the weaponry beyond minute adjustments is projected to increase the coordination of future barrages significantly.
-[X] (Weapon) 'Duet' Pattern Torpedo Launchers: Very loosely based on the atomic armed rockets of our current missile based broadside option, the 'Duet' Pattern Torpedoes, and their associated launchers, are much, much larger. Faced with the needs of stamina for long distance flight, armor to resist enemy point defense, and power to pose a threat to enemy ships, the designs of the Duet were forced to scale their designs significantly up. The price of that is that each set of the 'Duet' pattern includes only two launchers, thus launching only two torpedoes per firing cycle. But the profit is that torpedoes can be launched at all, armored enough to survive the enemy defenses, given autocannon clusters of their own to drive away enemy fighters, and with warheads big enough not only to threaten other escorts, but enemy cruisers, defense stations, and even, when sufficiently massed, the dreaded orkish space hulks.
-[X] (Defense) Scaffold Armour: Instead of welding additional material directly onto the hull, a new method has been developed for installing armour plating on our vessels. The load-bearing struts that form the skeleton of a ship's superstructure are extended past the hull cladding, from which spreads out a framework upon which interlocking plates are then welded onto. In addition to reducing the complexity of fabricating the plates for every differently shaped hull, the space between the armour and the actual hull is projected to reduce the effectiveness of enemy lance batteries, boarding craft and even somewhat mitigate torpedo impacts.
-[X] (Engines) Fast Burn Engines: Designed to fit in to combat ships and solve issues caused by the merchant grade engines this combat engine is designed to be rugged and fast at the expanse of fuel if necessary.
