@ Iron Wolf
Yaaay they rescued her! Also, I admired the little touches in the omake. like Apiata pronouns and of course... "Bro."
As for why he's in the field, one half ~Classic Trope~, the other is given how the President will throw him into the nearest sun if it goes wrong, he wants to be directly supervising.
Knowing how Oyana performs when she's mad, I'm not entirely sure she'd bother with a spaceship to do the toss, either.
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Guys, giving away a Constellation is a terrible idea! We are stretched tight with the Gabriel Expanse and Apinae sector and you want to give away a ship? They aren't even giving us any pp for it, just a smattering of resources. It's an insulting offer. Why punch a hole in the heart of our fleet distribution? We could literally scrap the ship any time we wanted and get pretty much the same result.
To be fair, Briefvoice, this is much more advantageous than scrapping the ship because
it's still in service in a worst-case scenario. We've called up an Andorian
Constellation before, during the Biophage Crisis, remember?
I'm on the fence about the idea, myself.
Other comments in general:
I voted "Workhorse" for Amarkia because if they're going to have a bunch of new colonies in the Gabriel Expanse, they could use some good support ships. And frankly, I like to push them away from martial and and to something a little more peaceful in their ship design. You know what they say, if all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
The flip side of that is that the Federation at large could
really use a good hammer. Because when you don't have a hammer, you tend to chase yourself around in circles coming up with tortured explanations for why the pointy bit in metal in front of you isn't really a nail.
So honestly, keeping the Amarki hammery feels to me less like encouraging them to be unbalanced and more to encourage them to stick to their comparative advantage. Besides, in the Gabriel Expanse they'd be working with the Apiata, who have pretty good science vessels of their own, remember?
True.
But...this is a culture we know so little about. Its just so sad if we have to pass up on this opportunity because of this endless fucking grind with the Syndicate.
You're totally right. I hope we get another chance to do something like this. Frankly I don't understnd why the exchange program is so politically expensive in the first place, but... [sigh]
Holy crap, Honiani have a C7 S5 D5 explorer and the Seyek have C9 S6 D5 explorer! Qloathi, despite having an penchant for exploration, have explorers about as slow as the Rigellian Megatortoise.
Which is why
we discovered them, not the other way around. They're not in a hurry to get places, the journey is, like, half the point of getting there, man...
Apiata a genuine tier 2 power as expected. And holy hell, they have more engineering ships (38) than all of Federation combined (31), leading to a ludicrous amount of spc! What the heck are the bees up to?
Apiata engineering ships may be hella-small (WORKER BEES!), or they may be counting as engineering ships a lot of stuff that we'd count as civilian ships?
I don't really see why they wouldn't just switch over to Renaissances, so this should just be refits. I guess keeping them too combat-focused might just blow up on our face, and since the Strike Force update wouldn't be as good as a Rennie, Workhorse it is.
One thing we're trying to do with the MWCO is prevent an outcome where all the member races start building identical ships and we don't get the benefits of diversity and specialization. Letting the Amarki refit their cruisers into something that has combat performance midway between a
Constitution-B and a
Renaissance preserves their specialization. Having them keep said cruisers at a level where a
Jaldun probably still outperforms them in combat seems like a bad idea to me.
That Seyek ship has got to be a typo. No one has a Combat 9 ship right now.
The
Lorgots hit Combat 7 on a 1.8-megaton chassis, and modern Federation ships can manage Combat 5 on what is otherwise a fairly well-balanced
one-megaton chassis. I wouldn't be surprised if you could fit Combat 9 on 2.3 to 2.5-megaton platform, if you were designing a "battleship" and not an "explorer."
So I've been looking at the spreadsheet screenshot, seeing if anything jumps out about Member World priorities. Things I've noticed:
1. The Apiaita and Indorians have no hospital ships for some reason. Should we suggest they design one, or build a Federation design once we've completed that?
Probably the latter, but right now they are very, VERY busy building urgently needed warships, so I don't imagine they'd be interested in building our big dedicated hospital ships in the short term.
2. The Apiata seem to use their engineering ships as replacements for freighters, which is why they have so many of them. Is there a reason they do that? Should we suggest a freighter design?
Maybe- but, again, it may well be that the Apiata honestly think that a good cargo ship should have some heavy machine tooling and construction capability of its own. Given that they're trying to expand rapidly, that seems only fair.
Is there any idea what year we might start building the Kepler prototype in? Approximately? I'd like to keep an eye out towards when we might need to reserve the resources and berth space.
Probably not for several years? I'm
pretty sure we aren't being coerced into starting the project by 2316 on account of people swarming for that idea on the tactical vote.
Quick question about the Ambassador class. If we go with the Honian option and put the Ambassador class on hold for a year. How many slips would be ready to go when that happens. I mean not building any more ships and keeping the building slips on standbye until the time is right to build them.
...Why would we do that?
We have to research a tech, then build a prototype, and the prototype will take like six years to finish. Many of our berths could complete one or two whole
Excelsiors, maybe even
three, in the time it will take before we can start mass-producing
Ambassadors. Moreover, we'll know six years in advance the exact date we can begin
Ambassador mass production, just like we knew 4.5 years in advance the exact date we were going to be able to start
Renaissance mass production (2314Q2).
