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Yeah, and in group combat it acts as the anchor that the rest of the team centers around.
Its not just a clearly defined vision - its also fantastically synergistic with the role that the Miranda's taking place on.
The 9x surviving ships of the Kea class remain in service for decades until 2292, and they all have Astrometrics
The Science rating on this module just isnt a great alternative to doubling your endurance
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[X] Antimatter Storage (Range: 314ly -> 628ly)
I want Spectral SO SO SO badly. But this is the smarter play....
I want Spectral SO SO SO badly. But this is the smarter play....
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I'm pretty sure our next ship is going to be an explorer.
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[X] Antimatter Storage (Range: 314ly -> 628ly)
Largely because this:
Largely because this:
and also a little bit because I love to imagine some Klingon analyst doing analysis about K'tinga raiding radius, comparing it to the known Excalibur range, and feeling briefly satisfied...just before the report on the Federation's new heavy cruiser lands on his desk.
I'd hope not. We've still got at least one design cycle before we get to TMP.
To be fair, might not be our next project
I think we might need a new spacestation first to supersede the surviving Pharos, plus I think Excelsior might be contingent on the new nacelles
KlavoHunter
THOU SHALT WORSHIP NO GODS ABOVE ENTERPRISE!
That does come as a great comfort... one that permits a great many logistically-inclined sins to be committed here...
[X] Antimatter Storage (Range: 314ly -> 628ly)
This does sound like a fantastic mission profile, being able to start with a full load of high-end manufactured goods from the core, delivering them where they're needed while filling the empty cargo bays with something useful that colony produces... and then she bounces around multiple colonies to do that again and again, before coming home to the core worlds with strategic materials and an incredible variety of space liquor. Second Golden Age of Orion Piracy can suck a fat Freddy!
Kinda glad that cargo won over expanded shuttlebay now, even though I voted for that...
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I think we are doing our new nacelles, then moving on.
True. Whether it's significantly more per distance covered since Max Cruise is sustainable is one of the big question marks to me. Another is how much an AM bladder can hold. If it's less than 50 LY for a Excalibur then extending the Federation's range really doesn't get you much. If it's over 100LY then it could be more useful.
It does open possibilities for a buddy raid instead of some extended Excalibur commerce raiding. That's a threat that does need to be honored.
It sucks that we'll not pursue any scanning synergies though. Getting another computer core upgrade or an advanced dilithium lab type that gave us a bonus would have been neat and felt like we were actively working to help deal with the crunch we have around strategic materials.
@Sayle this is why people have been saying Stop offering antimatter storage. Just woke up looked at the thread saw an update, saw antimatter tanks on it, and instantly knew there was no point to even consider reading the thread. 80+% vote for Antimatter storage, it would just be a waste of time reading 10 pages of people voting for it.
Please going forward just have it as an always there thing or just don't have it.
Please going forward just have it as an always there thing or just don't have it.
[X] Spectral Analysis (+2 Science)
Maybe the people picking antimatter enjoy the utility it brings?
The anti-raider. A battlecruiser ready to pounce on the first distress call, with the endurance to hunt anything down, and the supplies and engineering to clean up afterwards.
As an upside, with the antimatter tanks the ship has a clearly defined role now.
It gets loaded up, sent to the border, and spends a year travelling between everything on the periphery, repairing things, supplying things and fighting pirates.
This honestly seems like a great counter play to the age of pirates, if we have enough of them.
We can focus on things that make it better at this role specifically, rather than a hodge podge of random science that we think is cool. I think surveying is probably off the menu?
Kick the medical bay up a level or so, but that's about it for normal science I think. Well, unless we can get an improved communication suite - I really want to be able to pick up distress signals and such from maximum distance - but don't know if thats a thing that can be done.
Annoyingly we might end up with Fabrication bays yet again.
On the upside, given that we probably need a crew morale module for year long missions, a carefully picked one might partially double as a diplomatic module. Perhaps a Ten Forward equivalent, given it seems to have been used from everything from parties to live musical performances?
Not a bowling alley, traditional as that might be
The anti-raider. A battlecruiser ready to pounce on the first distress call, with the endurance to hunt anything down, and the supplies and engineering to clean up afterwards.
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[X] Antimatter Storage (Range: 314ly -> 628ly)
I mean it just makes sense to take this alongside the high max cruise.
I mean it just makes sense to take this alongside the high max cruise.
Strunkriidiisk
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Really? Spending a year out in the boonies helping newborn colonies seems like a great reason to have a full pharmacology specialty. Those guys certainly don't have full medical research facilities.
[X] Antimatter Storage (Range: 314ly -> 628ly)
With this amount of range, thats pretty good future proofing. Heck, some of these could probably be sent out as Explorers in a pinch.
With this amount of range, thats pretty good future proofing. Heck, some of these could probably be sent out as Explorers in a pinch.