Lost Among the Stars II, Reforged, Remade. Signup Thread

Alright, this is the second signup sheet for Lost Among the Stars when it reboots. You are the captain of a vessel from one of the countless science fiction universes pulled into a solar system filled with debris, dying planets, wrecked space stations and other hazards. You must survive against not only the threats that come with this system, but also other vessels which have been pulled here.

Unlike before, I am not forcing any teamups, so its open season...

Now, I will state restrictions. The absolute maximum length of any starship in this game is 4000 meters. That's four kilometers. That should be plenty long enough. Also, I'd like it if we didn't have any super weapons (So no Super Lasers, etc).

• Class:
• Ships Name:
• Unit type:
• Manufacturer:
• Operator:
• First deployment:
• Dimensions:
• Weight:
• Crew:
• Powerplant:
• Fixed armaments:
• Fighter Craft:
• Details:

• Flanker 66: Devastator Star Wars
• desdendelle: Liberty Star Wars
• desdendelle: Storm Wind Star Wars
• Reven Vrake: USS Knight Star Trek
• Deadbeatloser 22: USS Iliad Stargate SG 1
• Masked And Dangerous: Normandy SR-2 Mass Effect
• Sparty Mcfly: SCS Independence Home World
• Sonzai: UAN Linare Original Setting.

edited 12th Mar '12 9:37:21 PM by RevenVrake

Reposting for great justice!

• Class: Imperial-I
• Ships Name: Devastator
• Unit type: Capital ship/carrier
• Manufacturer: Kuat Drive Yards
• Operator: Imperial Navy/Galactic Empire
• First deployment: Bombardment of Falleen
• Dimensions: 1,600m in length
• Weight: Never specified
• Crew: 35,000 (45,000 including Stormtrooper complement)
• Powerplant: Three Destroyer-I ion engines, four Gemon-4 ion engines for emergency or supplimentary power
• Fixed armaments:
  • Sixty turbolasers of varying power
  • Sixty ion cannons
  • Ten tractor beams
  • Additional armaments and munitions*
    For some reason, the wiki doesn't specify
• Fighter Craft:
  • 72 TIE/In starfighters*
    There are many more bombers, shuttles, and support craft, but I'm not sure if they'd go in here or not. That, and I'm having trouble figuring out what the Devastator has and what it doesn't
• Details: The Devastator was Darth Vader's second flagship, and as such had structural alterations to allow it to carry more weapons and their ammunition. It served illustriously during the Galactic Civil War, participating in such key events as the Subjugation of Raltiir, the First Battle of Tattooine, the Battle of Poln System, and many more. The Devastator has access to hangar bays filled to the brim with the ubiquitous TIE fighter and its' smorgasbord of variants, as well as various other starships. Its' armament and equipment is quite potent. It followed normal Imperial doctrine, although at one point it was assigned to Death Squadron and Lord Vader's presence likely granted it special allowances that other vessels in the fleet may have lacked. It was eventually lost during the Battle of Endor, succumbing to sustained attack by A-Wing snubfighters and Y-Wing bombers. Crew losses are unknown.

edited 7th Mar '12 1:12:03 AM by Flanker66

I wasn't involved in the original version of this, but I would be interested in entering with a Normandy class frigate from Mass Effect. I have a few questions/reservations, though:

• Do these have to be canon ships, or can we make one up? I'd prefer not to use the Normandy SR 1 itself, but other ships of its class have been mentioned in-canon.
• Someone from the first iteration of the game may have bags'd a Normandy/the Normandy.

So, I guess put me down as tentatively interested.

edited 7th Mar '12 3:55:00 AM by Gaunt88

Original ships of canon classes are allowed; that's what I did.

Reserving SR-2 Normandy, Post ME 3 (assuming it's still working by the end of the game. If it's not... I'll improvise)

On second thought, an ROU would be OP for sure.

The Liberty

• 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 Yamarus: 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.

The Storm Wind

• Class: Alliance Assault Frigate, Mk. II.
• Name: The Storm Wind.
• Unit Type: Assault Frigate/Cruiser.
• Manufacturer: Rendili StarDrive.
• Operator: Alliance to Restore the Republic.
• First Deployment: circa 1 BBY.
• Dimensions: 700 metres long (width and depth n/a).
• Weight: N/A (Never specified); cargo capacity 7500 metric tons.
• Crew: Less than 5000.
• Powerplant: N/A (Never specified).
• Fixed Armaments:
  • x15 Laser cannons.
  • x20 Quad laser cannons.
  • x15 Turbolaser batteries.
• Fighter Craft:
• x1 LAAT/i.
• Details:
  • Appearance
  • The Storm Wind was manufactured in orbit above Fondor in 1 BBY after the Alliance captured the planet. She was quickly thrown into battle, participating in battles such as the First Battle of Atzerri, the Raid above Corellia*
    Where she helped free Han Solo from the Empire
    , the Raid over Corulag, the Defense of Dac, and many more; she was finally destroyed in 3 ABY shortly before the Battle of Hoth.

edited 15th Mar '12 5:01:39 AM by desdendelle

Flanker, Des, you're in.

And we do allow OC versions of already exisiting ships. I'm tentative about custom OC ships, we'll handle that as it happens. Masked and Dangerous played the SR 2 Normandy in the last version of this RPG, so the Normandy itself is reserved.

Speaking of ships:

• Class: Excelsior Refit◊
• Ships Name: USS Knight. NCC-24500
• Unit type: Battlecruiser/Explorer
• Manufacturer: Starfleet San Francisco Fleet Yards
• Operator: United Federation of Planets Starfleet
• First deployment: 2390s
• Dimensions: Length, 511.25 meters; beam, 195.64 meters; height, 86.76 meters;
• Weight: 2,350,000 metric tonnes
• Crew: 750 Officers and Crew
• Powerplant: Anti-Matter Annihilation Reactor
• Fixed armaments:
  • 8 x Dual Phaser Bank, 5 dual banks on Saucer Section, 2 dual banks on Saucer neck, 1 Dual Bank positioned between Nacelles;
  • 6 x Photon Torpedo Launcher, 2 mounted in Saucer neck, 2 mounted on main hull forward, 2 mounted on main hull aft, forward main hull launchers can fire Quantum Torpedoes or Photon Torpedos;
• Fighter Craft: 8 x Type-7 shuttlecraft
• Details: The original Excelsior starship was first constructed in the early 2280s, titled the Great Experiment. When it came out it was the single most powerful vessel in Starfleet. As time went on, over a decade later, a refit to the Excelsior was built, first in the Enterprise-B. The class continued with Starfleet for over a century, becoming the workhorse of the fleet eventually. Surpassed in power and prestige by newer vessels, the Excelsior continues to endure. By the time of the breakdown in relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation, the Excelsior was slightly long in the tooth, but still packing a wallop. With four torpedo launchers forward, the Excelsior Refit has a massive first strike capacity. Currently under the command of Captain Alexander Sunder, the vessel was investigating reports of a Klingon strike force attacking convoys on the outskirts of the Federation.

• Class: Deadalus / F-304
• Ships Name: USS Iliad
• Unit type: Battlecruiser / Deep Space Carrier
• Manufacturer: Tau'ri
• Operator: Tau'ri.
• First deployment: 2010
• Dimensions:
  • Length 200-225 meters
  • Width: 90-95 meters
  • Height/depth: 70-75 meters
• Weight: Unknown / Not specified.
• Crew: ~200 personnel; capable of operation with a minimum of 4.
• Powerplant:
  • Power Generation:
    • Naquadah generators
  • Propulsion:
    • Maneuvering thrusters
    • Sublight drive
    • Asgard hyperdrive
• Fixed armaments:
  • 4 Asgard Plasma Beam Weapons (May be handwaved as disabled if too powerful)
  • 32 Railguns
  • 16 VLS Missile Tubes
    • Mark III, VIII, and IX nuclear missiles
• Fighter Craft: 8-16 F-302s
• Details:

You're in Deadbeat. And my signup list looks a little weird. Every show so far starts with Star

Class: Normandy

Ships Name: Normandy SR-2

Unit type: Stealth Frigate, Mobile Command Center

Manufacturer: Cereberus, retrofitted by Systems Alliance

Operator: Systems Alliance

First deployment: 2185

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

Weight: N/A

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 (Port and starboard, concealed under hall in rear of deck two. Good for short engagements, but with poor range and lasting power)
• Twin Javelin Disruptor Torpedoes (Mounted next to primary engines, magazine size is twenty)
• Thanix Magnetic-Hydrodynamic Cannon (Spinal mounted on deck three. Can fire regular mass accelerator rounds or liquid metal at .13c)

Fighters: UT-47a Kodiak Stealth Drop Shuttle (Holds twelve, twin mass accelerator cannon mounted on belly). Normandy has two.

Defenses:

• Cyclonic Barrier Technology Multicore Shielding (Stops kinetic projectiles by creating an occilating shield around the Normandy, deflecting incoming shots. Ineffective against laser weaponry)
• Silaris Heavy Ship Armor (Carbon nanotube sheets woven into diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition and crushed into supercompacted coating, over high grade ablative armor meant to scatter a DEW's beam)
• Advanced Sensors (Using an advanced grid of microsatellites, the Normandy can scan wide areas with a variety of passive and active scanners, such as visual, thermographic, and radio detectors, radar, and LADAR (LAser Detection and Ranging).

Details: Upon being acquired by the Systems Alliance Navy, the SR-2 Normandy has been retrofitted with numerous upgrades from the original design. The most noteworthy is the addition of a Flag Bridge, behind the CIC, where high ranking officers of the Alliance can work out large scale fleet tactics. The armory has been moved from the Command deck into the cargo bay. Due to the presence of the current Shadow Broker aboard, the Normandy possesses a high quality intelligence suite.

After it's previous mission, the Normandy helped evac a special forces squad from behind enemy lines.

Notable Crew:

• Commanding Officer: Cmdr Jane Shepard, Systems Alliance, Designation N7 (special forces), Council Special Tactics and Recon
• Executive Officer: Lt. Cmdr Ashley Williams, Systems Alliance, Designation N7 (special forces), Council Special Tactics and Recon
• Helmsman: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Systems Alliance
• Gunnery Officer: Task Force Cmdr Garrus Vakarian, Turian Hierarchy
• Chief Engineer: Specialist Adams, Systems Alliance
  • Engineer: Admiral Tali'Zorah vas Normandy
• Chief Medical Officer: Dr. Karin Chakwas, Systems Alliance
• Yeoman: Specialist Samantha Traynor, Systems Alliance R&D
• Shuttle Pilot: Lt. Steven Cortez
• Security Officers: Pvt. Bethany Westmoreland, Pvt. Sarah Campbell

Special Forces Fireteam, 103rd Division, Fifth Fleet

• Gy Sgt. Jonathan Strider, Systems Alliance Marines (Soldier), Designation N7 (Special Forces)
• Sgt. Stephanie Harrington, Systems Alliance Marines (Infiltrator), Designation N6 (Special Forces)
• Cpl Francine Rodriguez, Systems Alliance Marines (Vanguard), Designation N6 (Special Forces)
• PFC Roy Lee, Systems Alliance Marines (Engineer), Designation N5 (Special Forces)

Others:

• EDI, Artificial Intelligence
• Liara T'Soni, Shadow Broker
• Diana Allers, War Correspondent, Alliance News Network
• Javik, Prothean Paragon of Vengeance
• Lt. James Vega, Systems Alliance, Designation N6 (special forces)

edited 27th Mar '12 1:06:09 PM by MaskedAndDangerous

• Class: Imperator-class Carrier◊.
• Ships Name: SCS Independence.
• Unit type: Strikecraft carrier
• Manufacturer: Hagarakh Shipyards
• Operator: Spredronian Navy
• First deployment: CE 3132 by Spredronian standards, with the SCS Imperator's keel laid and launched.
• Dimensions: Unknown, but the carrier is smaller than you'd think it to be.
• Weight: 121,000 tons.
• Crew: 3000 - 1500 are regular crew, whereas the other 1500 crew are nonspecialized joint-ops that can be assigned to whatever ships are required.
• Powerplant: Nuclear fusion drive, which vents high-energy plasma through a magnetic bottle located in the rear of the ship to provide thrust.
• Fixed armaments: Four medium-class mass driver turrets, utilizing kinetic railguns to launch slugs of matter at targets.
• Fighter Craft: As of the start the Independence has a standard fightercraft escort. However, Details explains why this number is subject to change:
  • Total strikecraft as of entrance is 35 (25 fighters and 10 corvettes). Two additional vehicles are carried.
    • 13 Blade Mk. V interceptors◊, equipped with twin kinetic autoguns.
    • 12 Thunderbolt attack bombers◊, equipped with plasma bomb launchers.
    • 4 Tempest multi-gun corvettes◊, equipped with six independently tracking kinetic autocannons
    • 6 Porter Mk. II salvage corvettes◊, equipped with one kinetic autocannon for defense, magnets, and a suite of capture technology designed to bring ships back to shipyard-type vessels
    • 2 Providence-class resource collectors◊, carrying phased disassembler arrays to harvest asteroids.
• Details: The Imperator-class was constructed as a requirement for the Spredronian combat fleet, which needed a strikecraft carrier capable of storing and attending to strikecraft. In the end, the applicant by Hagarakh Shipyards, the Imperator-class, won out, and the Spredronians accepted it into their navy as their official carrier. The primary reason for its victory was how Hagarakh managed to utilize the same phased disassembler array technology, used previously in shipyards, and shrunk it down to a scale where it could build and repair fightercraft, allowing Imperators, as long as they have the Resource Units and joint-ops crew to do so, to act as mobile fleets and task forces. Though standard protocol calls for an escort of two Revelation-class Destroyers/Perdition-class Missile Destroyers and a single Avatar-class Heavy Cruiser, the Independence is a newly laid ship in a position with no escort, when it miscalculated an FTL jump. It has a full compliment of crew and enough RUs for decent strikecraft building. The full capacity of a Carrier is 75 strikecraft - 50 fighters and 25 corvettes.
• Crew: Captain Josephine Taylor is the only crewmember I plan on having at the moment, as I forget the rest. However, positions of Weapons, Strikecraft Command, Pilot, Engineer, and other roles can be filled as needed.

edited 7th Mar '12 1:31:33 PM by SpartyMcFly

Hm, I wonder: Can I play both the Liberty and the Storm Wind at the same time?

I thought that was your intention already.

Actually, no, but when I saw both of them in the first post I thought 'Sure, Why Not?, it's going to be fun'. So I assume that's OK with you.

The reason I added the special forces (my multiplayer characters, by the way), was so I could have someone other then Shepard to send into combat, someone who may actually die.

Found this◊ and I think it will come in handy for those of us who try to remember how big each of our ships really is.

And it clearly shows why I don't allow ships bigger than 3000-4000 meters. It just dwarfs the rest of us. I do have a minor nitpick in that they have the Excelsior size wrong >.>

It should be 511 meters, not 465

Plus it doesn't have any Stargate ships on there; for reference, though, an F-304 class vessel is about the same size as the NX-01.

Well, the Liberty's already there, and the Storm Wind is about as large as that acclamator-class, a bit shorter perhaps.

Do we have to play as ships from existing franchises? I just wonder cause I write sci-fi myself, so, yeah...

Assuming we gave our own ship/fleets substantial weaknesses, of course.

edited 10th Mar '12 2:43:07 PM by Eventua

I do allow original storylines and ships, as I allow OC ships from existing franchises.

It just depends on the quality of the entry. So what exactly do you have in mind?

Hey, if original story-lines are allowed, I could submit one of my ships from a Free Space mod that I'm (planning on eventually) making:

• Class: Io-Class Destroyer
• Ships Name: UAN Linare
• Unit type: Hybrid Capital/Carrier (Mostly intended for anti-capital and strike forces)
• Manufacturer: Sigma Astronautical
• Operator: United Terran Astronomical Navy (UAN)
• First deployment: Battle of Vega (2164)
• Dimensions: ~700m length, ~400m width, ~300m height
• Weight: ~215,000 metric tons
• Crew: ~5000 (including command, support, maintenance, fighter pilots, and special forces - no dedicated troops otherwise)
• Powerplant: 3 Deuterium Fusion Reactors + 3 Emergency Fission Backup Reactors
• Engines:
  • Subspace Jump Drive
  • 4 Fusion Rocket Main Sublight Engines
  • 32 Ion Maneuvering Thrusters
• Defenses:
  • Heavy T-Kar Armor Interwoven Plating (with reflective layers to defend against normal lasers - no effect on other types of energy weapons)
  • 12 Force Shield Emitters (Effective against kinetic, missile, or fighter weaponry, either deflecting or shredding incoming objects to dust, but most energy weapons penetrate it)
• Fixed armaments:
  • 8 Heavy Anti-Capital-Ship Railguns
  • 6 AAA Beams
  • 6 AAA Flak Cannons
  • 6 Missile Launchers (3 AAA, 3 Anti-Ship)
  • 2 Force Emitters - function like tractor beams that can push or pull, and can also be focused to act like plasma cutters (doesn't really do much damage, but can be used to whack fighters around)
  • AAA armaments are usually used for point defense against fighters or missiles, but can attack larger objects (with comparatively low effectiveness)
• Fighter Craft:
  • 90 Space Superiority Fighters
  • 30 Bombers
  • 10 Support/Repair ships
  • (And an assortment of automated repair, scout, and probe drones)
  • 3 Fighter Launch Bays (and an additional drone launch tube)
• Details: Launched in early 2164 to help defend Vega, the UAN Linare is a relatively new ship, but has proven herself capable in battle. One of the new Io-Class destroyers, she strikes a compromise between pure anti-capital ship armament and fighter complement. Primarily intended to work in strike groups with Carrier support, the new Io-class destroyers are a core part of our evolving strategy. The Linare is commanded by Captain Ramanathan, and has a special forces strike division lead by Lt. Cmdr. Harrison. As well, through the Inter-Species Alliance Cooperative Exchange Program, Vice Imperator P'jwakh of the Hxaons, and Ambassador Ivin of the Vencarans are also present to observe and advise.
• Notes: Due to a large amount of automation, AI-like systems, and genetic enhancement, crew requirements are reduced, and the humans from this timeline are able to react much faster and with much more accurate aim than today's humans.

If we can make stuff up does that mean I can make a pony cruiser? Eh? Eh?

I'm only half kidding here.

Due to the precise details of the ending of Mass Effect 3, I may have to scrap the Normandy, and switch to another series that has caught my interest recently.

Which one?

Honorverse. I'm gonna do the RMS Werewolf