Star Wars An Officer and a Traitor (NO SV, you are an Imperial Officer and Traitor)
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Why do I have a feeling we are pulling a Garp, our son is doing a Dragon, and we might have a younger son/daughter pulling a Luffy?
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Now, I'm not saying the last one piece chapter inspired me...
But...
So…
Considering one of our family actions prior to fleet assignment had our daughter go to Kuat. Did she go there and start doing chaos?
Considering one of our family actions prior to fleet assignment had our daughter go to Kuat. Did she go there and start doing chaos?
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More like she and some engineers decided to do some fun times.
Kuat has broken over 2000 workers regulations...
And the Union is raising so much hell that it shut down production of several dockyards.
Well….
The bill has come due…
The question is, has the dumpster fire of a pet project gotten dragged out of it's hole yet?
Cause if not…
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The ISD 2.
Lira Wessex's pet project. Which considering the merits of the prior two designs, was PROBABLY the result of her being let loose thanks to the fact the pressures of war influencing the design process.
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..So, sounds like it hasn't peen pulled out by someone offended by it's mere existence yet. Which means there is a way to dump even more fuel to the fire engulfing kuat
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Other then criminal lack of point defence is it really that bad?
Well. Going by the wiki...
There is A LOT of things wrong in the design apparently. And the complete stripping of point defense, already a weakness considering it's purpose, is just the most glaringly obvious.
I mean. Most of those are more then likely present in an ISD 1 as well. IIRC the only differences between ISDs are 2 having a slightly better reactor and therefore slightly better speed and shields, heavier armor and weapon reshuffling, going from ISD 1 roughly equal mix of turbolasers and ions into mostly turbolasers and ditching the already anemic point defences alltogether. With that in mind I just don't see how ISD 1 is good whereas ISD 2 is bad. They are way too similar gor such a gap in opinion.
Well. Part of good or bad depends on how exactly you look at something. Because the ISDs are all very clearly brawlers, built to do one thing really well, tearing apart enemy counterpart ships. The ISD 2 as an 'upgrade', which more heavily specializes the ship, ends up making the ship ridiculously vulnerable to fighter-craft if alone, something which is expected considering it's envisioned role. While I am unsure of what flaws may have been introduced by the upgrade, but the ISD 2 is in some ways a total failure to design with doctrine in mind, only exacerbated by the VERY POOR timing, with it coming out when X-wings started cropping up everywhere blasting things up. I mean, the ISD 2 is effectively defenseless in the window provided for the compliment of fighter to launch, making supportive combat craft a necessity for a ship allegedly designed to not need them.
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To a degree it's about feel.
The ISD-1 feels like an overbuilt galactic-policing vehicle. Ion cannons let you take prisoners and place people under arrest, point defense lets you not be throwing suicide-TIEs at everything that can do more than sneeze at you and they start working right away, and it wins any slugging match in its weight class. You can understand it being deployed alone because it's got enough coverage that any threat is going to take casualties.
The ISD-2 is a terror weapon. A token concession to having ion cannons but it's all about the "I hereby name myself judge, jury, and executioner" (expanded with Vader's SSD literally called Executor) while making itself more vulnerable to hit-and-fade starfighter assaults, which were the Rebel Alliance's stock in trade. Being deployed alone also hurts because any glaring vulnerabilities are gonna get exploited by any commander worth their salt. It's a redesign that more aggressively specializes it into a terror weapon and away from being a one-stop-galactic-policing shop.
The ISD-1 feels like an overbuilt galactic-policing vehicle. Ion cannons let you take prisoners and place people under arrest, point defense lets you not be throwing suicide-TIEs at everything that can do more than sneeze at you and they start working right away, and it wins any slugging match in its weight class. You can understand it being deployed alone because it's got enough coverage that any threat is going to take casualties.
The ISD-2 is a terror weapon. A token concession to having ion cannons but it's all about the "I hereby name myself judge, jury, and executioner" (expanded with Vader's SSD literally called Executor) while making itself more vulnerable to hit-and-fade starfighter assaults, which were the Rebel Alliance's stock in trade. Being deployed alone also hurts because any glaring vulnerabilities are gonna get exploited by any commander worth their salt. It's a redesign that more aggressively specializes it into a terror weapon and away from being a one-stop-galactic-policing shop.
Honestly, I find this idea much more problematic then the ISD. Jack of all trades master of none comes to mind