In that case, I much prefer aiming for your option with the Light shields.
This ship is going to be in the middle of fights the last thing you want is to remove the defenses that are meant to keep it safe in a battle. Light shields would barely better than if not the same as civilian level shields. This is a warship it needs good shields. And the Net 30 is needed as that is one of the damn requirements we have to meet along with the extra space left over. And the cockpit is already good enough it has no flaws and we still haven't seen what we gained from the Dug that everybody was so crazy for.
By no means am I saying that we should achieve less than Net 30 advantage; I'm just saying that given this arrangement:
51 Advantage - 16 Flaws = 35 Net Advantage
Remember that you can modify the Cockpit on a late design if you wish. The only condition is that the part itself has some Advantage to "pay" for these modifications.
That would be a bad idea, the Quasar is already slow as hell and a literal bubble, we don't need it slower.
This makes sense.
That could work.
wait a second. we could tie it into our bespoke warship thing. build a basic crusier desgin frist then use the compartment space budgeted for the big guns for flight pod mounts and further cargo.
I'm using it as easy way to explain the concept. a light carrier or escort carrier wouldn't need a heavy crusier hull anyway. that would be more for a fleet carrier instead.
Mon Calamari capital ships were repurposed passenger liners, but I think it more likely that we lack the shipyards to build heavy cruisers and up
It's cool and all, but I don't know if the Strident really matches up with the design language and aesthetics of our existing ships.The Strident-class heavy frigate would be a good Star Wars cruiser I think. At 575 meters, it would be only 25 meters shorter than the Dreadnought heavy cruiser. And with our special weapon generator it would enable very good weapons. And with our honeycomb construction it will be very robust and well armored. In addition, the bridge would be on top of the ship, but it is pretty close to the ship. And that means we have more space than when she is in the ship itself.
We don't even have images for our current ships actually.
Yeah we do? Not in the official updates, but our corvette design was settled on looking like this Corvette, and the cruiser design we were cooking up for a while would have been based on this. You can find both of these designs in previous posts in this thread.
Pics busted. Also we have some people complaining about us based ships off other series.
The Corvette and Donnager-class from The Expanse, respectively. And to my recollection, the bulk of the complaints was directed at trying to copy the ships themselves in the Star Wars universe, rather than simply making them look like them.
