I'm open to it, really depends on if @Alectai wants to wait for the autoloaders. If he throws up a new Crux design I'll probably toss it in.
I put this in for now. It looks like a mean little ship that would supplement things likely! Unfortunately it's not in our SBGs, so that means we won't be making many of them in bulk soon, and if there's a viable Crux redesign that would probably be better.
Actually we're 4 away, we're only at Food VI right now
I know, that's why we're designing new ships that could be useful now
Well, I think the Sagittarius could fit in as a Heavy Frigate.
That's fair. Here's my proposal for the Crux-T then if we want expediency for ship production.
I think we should wait on the Circinus upgrade until we get the Celestial Orerry which is meant to help improve our Scouting.
Why Anti-Voidcraft Defenses on a ship with so many potent fighters to shoot down ordinance with? Also out of ordinance only strikecraft are long ranged, and those are our thing. We have bigger problems if enemy bombers get near a Libra. Also you could increase its firepower by a half with those DP by taking two more hangars.
But why downsize? 4 FP per 10 ships in no great cost, and we really want to keep the choir and the navigation capability safe.
Yes we can, it sucks.
Medium Hangars are 2 DP weapons so Frigate sized so I highly doubt that more than 4 would cause issues on a cruiser, but lets ask.
Missiles benefit enormously from specializing into them. Most weapon systems do, but missiles especially so. If you want missiles refit Crux.
More than 4 would cause issues.
Wait, 4 for 10? I thought it was 4 for 1?
We need more and better scouts sooner than we'd get waiting to get the new module done. Our current baseline scouting efficiency is 20% we need more scouts rather acutely.
...The Imperium also uses Psykers? They treat them like shit but they do use them to great effect.
There's the Black Ash Clan. While they are kinda assholish, we could try some diplomacy with them, or at the very least find a House to back in the next Civil War they have.
If you want to be an Interstellar Nation worth a Damn, you NEED Psykers or some really bullshit tech. Even the Black Templars, the most fanatic Space Marines who hate everything that isn't a pure human, begrudgingly make use of Navigators and Astropaths b/c they'd be screwed without them.
Added both to my plan. The new Crux has so much firepower.
Yeah - maybe after this turn we refocus away from the van Zandt's for a moment. Slowboat Voxx, get our second fleet built, then start to preach more to the Ashan & Shipwrights. I'm hoping the Cassiopeia will help a ton in the Shipwright's Alliance especially. They still have ~Imperium quality of life, humanitarian missions there should buy us a lot of goodwill, popular support and converts to the Star Child.
Honestly I am all for creating the Department of Espionage now and doing infiltrations. We have already started gaining experience from this place so making a department for it is great. It's CIA time...without the many atrocities ideally
We have over 100 million followers, and they will also probably follow the warning to lay low.
