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Ah, thanks. Not sure how my mind managed to tune that last bit out.

Locking you up on radar since '09

... Which is fortunate for me because this crew is kind of well documented.

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I'm not sure having a completely OC vessel is a good idea. This is supposed to be a Mega Crossover RPG and I think a completely OC vessel doesn't really fit.

Anyone else have thoughts on it?

I'm thinking of starting this later today.

Personally, I'm neutral. On the one hand, a wholly OC ship may jar as you said, but on the other hand a well crafted OC ship may spice things up. In that spirit, I'd suggest that they put up a sheet or whatever - if you feel they'll clash, then they simply aren't used. But then again, you did say it was meant to be a mega crossover...

Locking you up on radar since '09

Anno and I are going to go through hell on intra-ship stuff. :D

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Might as well join.

My race itself is a blend of multiple properties, but it's mainly so I can get images for them in the first place.

Class: Imperator-class Carrier◊

• Ships Name: SISS Independence
• Unit type: Strikecraft carrier/construction yard
• Manufacturer: Arrakhor Shipyards
• Operator: Spredronian Navy
• First deployment: 1783 PF, as part of Battle Group Sigma
• Dimensions: 453 m long
• Weight: 121,000 tons
• Crew: 2000 standby crew, further 2000 multi-operations crew for any ship built.
• Powerplant: Deuterium fusion reactor
• Fixed armaments: Four rapid-fire mass driver turrets
• Fighter Craft: Five Arrow-class scout fighters◊, ten Blade Mk. V interceptors◊, ten Thunderbolt-class attack bombers◊, twenty AI-controlled Shield Mk. III[B] defenders◊, fiveSpectre-class cloakfighters◊, five Tempest-class Multi-Gun Corvettes◊, two Porter-class Salvage Corvettes.◊ With two Providence-class resource collectors◊, the internal construction bays of the Carrier can build new strikecraft and frigates as needed: available multi-ops crew limits the amount constructable.
• Details: The Imperator-class is unique from other carriers in that most of its room is taken up by immense fabrication bays. These can use raw materials provided by the Resource Collectors to fabricate and construct strike-craft and corvettes as necessary. Though it can field frigates, usually the strain on multi-ops crew is so great that it is attempted only in worst-case scenarios.

Note the strikecraft I have adds up to 50 fighters and 7 corvettes. The Carrier itself can carry 50 fighters and 25 corvettes. As well, as long as the Resource Collectors remain alive it can continue to build strikecraft as needed (though it can only support 50 fighters and 25 corvettes maximum).

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

Alright Folks!

The Discussion thread is up and running, and Here is the RP thread!

...just asking, but am I accepted?

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

OK, looks like I need to get to work on drafting some manner of the Iliad's bridge crew, at least.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

@Reven: ...Is there any definitive answer on OC ships yet?

@Optimus: According to the OP you are.

edited 11th Dec '11 1:44:28 PM by deathpigeon

OK, Iliad principle bridge crew for consideration:

• Commanding Officer: Colonel Sonia Redwood. 46. Long brown hair tied according to regulation, soft brown eyes. Tends to seem distant, and may be at the "seen it all before" stage.
• Pilot: Major Trey Glover. 35. Black hair and blue eyes. Typical flyboy, slightly overconfident and sarcastic at the best of times.
• Weapons Officer: Captain Lyle Mercer. 29. Buzz cut red hair and green eyes. Very much a by-the-book officer, his slightly sticklerish devotion to the rules and regs didn't get beaten out of him by his first promotion.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

Post it up, and we'll see how it does. It should be fine, with us having a freaking New Macross class in the game

• Ships Name: TDN Fenrir
• Ships Class : Cerberus Class
• Unit type: AI Driven, Torpedo Ship.
• Manufacturer: Parts Vary, built in the Port of Luna
• Operator: Terran Alliance.
• First deployment: 3324
• Dimensions: 800 m long
• Weight: 400, 000 tons
• Crew: 200: 28 engineering, 170 guards, 2 commanding officers, no other crew needed since most processes are AI driven.
• Fixed armaments: 8 torpedo batteries (4 tubes each), 1 fixed lengths rail gun, 1 fixed length Fusion Torch, 128 micromissle launchers for point defense.
• Fighter Craft: 4 collection drones, Although it does have storage for 3 frigates in case docking is needed, it does not have the supplies necessary to field strike craft.
• Ground Crew: 12 tanks linked to the MO-Net system, no trained ground ops soldiers.
• Special Features : Internal factory and salvage ships recycle battle field debris into more torpedoes giving a weapon once thought impractical for capital ships due to low ammo storage a new life.
• Details: After the successful study of the TDN Mobius a "Combat Lab" ship which managed to atian sentience it was determined that fears of an AI rebellion had been groundless and that AI could drastically reduce the need for crew of a ship, from thousands, to hundreds. The Cerberus class is one of the first classes to experiment with this. Most of the crew space having been removed for other useful features like an internal factory, and powerful computers. This free space and powerful computers allowed something new to be attempted, something thought crazy at the time, A capital ship focusing on missile and torpedo armaments. Since torpedoes are huge, and Missiles have been almost completely beaten by advanced defenses, where as rail guns can store hundreds of bullets in the same space, and cant be defeated by any thing other then armor they were thought useless. However the powerful computers allow the ships AI to directly control the missiles adapting to most forms of counter measures, and an internal factory allows recycling of battlefield debris reducing the need for storage of thousands of rounds of ammunition, down to just enough ammunition for 1 or 2 fights. This all added up to a T-4 ship with the punch of a T-3, while testing is not complete the two shops that exist in this class Garm and Fenrir look promising.
• Appearance : Think this without the turrets◊ torpedo batteries receded into hull and covered by plates until needed to prevent damage, they face sideways and and the torpedos turn to the target.

Sorry if the description was worded bad, I ended up getting... tounge tied over the internet some how, sorry

edited 12th Dec '11 8:09:10 AM by Imca

You can probably guess from my avatar, but I'll do it by the book.

• Class: YT-1300 light freighter
• Ships Name: Millennium Falcon
• Unit type: F/P, heavily modified.
• Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation
• Operator: Han Solo
• First deployment: ~60 BBY
• Dimensions: length 35.76 meters Width 25.61 meters Height/depth 8.27 meters (including lower cannon and upper sensor array)
• Weight: Heavy.(can't find stats on it)
• Crew:2 minimum Currently 5
• Powerplant: Quadex power core
• Fixed armaments:
  • Ax-108 "Ground Buzzer" surface-defense blaster cannon

  • ST 2 concussion missile tubes, 6 missiles.

  • Dual AG-2G quad laser cannons, dorsal and ventral

• Fighter Craft:None (most of the time.)

Details: A smuggling ship Owned by Han Solo, with a rich and varied past. It has been everything from a consular ship, to a pirate vessal, and everything in between. Won in a game of sabbaca from Lando, It has been heavily modified, and is capable of holding it's own in a fight against any vessel it's size, and some larger. Currently carrying Han, Chewy, Luke, R2-d2, and C-3PO. Carrying a cargo of demo charges and blaster rifles for the rebellion to a secret base

edited 11th Dec '11 10:16:06 PM by Joesolo

I'm baaaaaaack

You're both in. ^_^

^_^ I will post in the morning, I should really get going back to bed, just wanted to say thanks.

I'll get working on the Independence's bridge crew when I get the time to.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

I'll pop on sooner or later.

I'm baaaaaaack

Kickass spaceships? I'm in.

• Class: Normandy

• Ships Name: Normandy SR-2

• Unit type: Stealth Frigate

• Manufacturer: Cereberus

• Operator: Cereberus - Lazarus Cell

• First deployment: 2185

• Dimensions: (estimated) 250 meters tip to thruster. 180 meter wingspan

• Weight: N/A

• Crew: 50 crewman, plus twelve specialists, one pilot, and one Artifical Intelligence.

• Powerplant: Nuclear Fusion, with H Fuel cells for back up power. Tantalus Drive Core allows the Normandy to move without using heat emmitting thrusters, thus creating stealth in space.

• Fixed armaments:
  • GARDIAN Point Defense Lasers
  • Twin Javelin Disruptor Torpedoes
  • Thanix Magnetic-Hydrodynamic Cannon

• Fighters:
  • UT-47 Kodiak Drop Shuttle (Holds twelve)
  • M-44 Hammerhead Infantry Fighting Vehicle (Ground based operations only)

• Details: The Normandy SR-2 is a state-of-the-art vessel, made in top secret by one of the most powerful individuals in known space, for the sole purpose of accomidating it's Commander. It has been upgraded with top of the line weapons and shielding, to allow it to take on the worst that the galaxy can throw at it. It can take on ships multiple times it's weight class by way of it's devastating weaponry, while taking a beating with it's kinetic shielding and heavy armor. It has the ability to disappear from conventional detection (other then the naked eye) with it's one of a kind Tantalus Drive core.

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Crew

• Commanding Officer: Jane Shepard◊ - Council Specter and Hero of the Skylian Blitz

• Executive Officer: Miranda Lawson
  • Yeoman: Kelly Chambers

• Helmsman: Jeff "Joker" Moreau

• Gunnery Officer: Garrus Vakarian

• Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Carolyn Chakwas

• Chief Engineer: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy
  • Propulsion Engineer: Gabriella Daniels
  • Power Engineer: Kenneth Donnelly

• Science Officer: Mordin Solus

• Armory Chief: Jacob Taylor

• Ground Combat Specialists:
  • Urdnot Grunt
  • Jack
  • Zaeed Massani
  • Justicar Samara

• Ground Infiltration Specialists:
  • Thane Krios
  • Kasumi Goto
  • Legion

• Artificial Intelligence: EDI

Plus various additional crew members

edited 14th Dec '11 4:35:03 PM by MaskedAndDangerous

Schweet, the Normandy!

Anyways, Independence bridge crew:

• Captain: Josephine Taylor. 35. Short, cropped red hair: the result of an after hair-cut. Slightly well-fit. Tanned skin - perhaps a bit too tanned. Recently got off of commanding an Avatar-class Heavy Cruiser.
  • Pilot: Markus Sandscreek. 51. Expert capital ship pilot, able to fly them with the tightest of precision.
  • Communications: Anthony Belara. 22. Fresh-faced, former social worker, who is in no way underexperienced by his young age for this operation.
  • Weapons Officer: CAROLINE, artificial intelligence. Helps with communication, but mostly responsible for precision targeting of the Independence's weapons systems - after all, if you've only got six mass driver turrets that are ponderously slow, you want every shot to count.

edited 13th Dec '11 11:11:40 AM by SpartyMcFly

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

Am I the only one shooting at the clearly hostile ships?

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

Ooh, spaceships.

• Class: MC80 Liberty-type Star Cruiser.
• Ship's name: the Liberty◊.
• Unit type: Carrier/Destroyer.
• Manufacturer: Mon Calamari Shipyards.
• Operator: the Alliance to Restore the Republic (ie, the Rebel Alliance).
• First deployment: N/A (first sighting: 0 BBY).
• Dimensions: 1.2 kilometre long.
• Weight: N/A (never specified).
• Crew:
  • 668 Officers.
  • 4734 Enlisted.
  • 1200 troops.
• Powerplant: N/A (never specified)
• Fixed armaments:
  • x36 Turbolaser Cannons
  • x36 Heavy Ion Cannons
  • x6 Tractor Beam Projectors
• Fighter Craft:
  • Green Squadron
  • Bandit Squadron
  • 26 X-wings.
• Details:
  The Liberty is one of the most famous Mon-Cal MC80 Cruisers. It served with distinction in the Rebel Alliance's starfleet, shutting down the TIE Experimental project, destroying the Star Dreadnought Vengeance, and serving as Ace Azzameen and his squad's base in the months leading to the battle of Endor.

The Liberty, like all MC80s, is a dagger-shaped ship. Bulges on its hull conceal weapon emplacements, shield generators, and the like. Its hangers are on its sides, behind its wings.

• Notable Crewmembers:
  • Admiral Yamaraus: This black-haired, brown-eyed man is the commander of the Liberty and its task-force. He is an idealist, risking his ship and his life in the service of the rebellion.
    However, he isn't stupid, and he's quite suspicious of lowlifes and criminals. He's known to be annoyed by politicians and their meddling.
  • Commander Zaletta: Zaletta, an Imperial defector, is the Liberty's tactical officer. He knows quite a lot about the Empire's workings, and he uses this knowledge to the Alliance's advantage.

edited 14th Dec '11 9:15:26 AM by desdendelle

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

You're in Des

Two rebel ships, and one Empire.

They do have medals for almost, and they're called silver!

Woohoo! Will formulate OP ASAP.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground