I've recently come up with an rp idea for which I would be using the zoner corvo deep space explorer. I've been draft-writing the rp and this ship would be an explorer/research type ship that would go about finding all planets of a specific type across Sirius while recording all their data and writing some rp about them.
I do have more specifics on this but don't want to give it all away.
My question was in regards to the ship however. Is there a "standard" or known crew number for this ship or for a ship of similar size? Or am I free to say the ship holds, say, 200 people? I want this to make as much sense as possible of course, and then say x-amount of people run the ship, y-amount of people are researchers, etc.
The wiki for the corvo: http://discoverygc.com/wiki/%22Corvo%22_...e_Explorer doesn't provide said information but perhaps there is a correlation between the size of the cargo hold to the amount of crew ships can have I'm not aware of?
Any help in this regards would be more than appreciated, thank you!
Just make something reasonable up, there are no hardcoded numbers. It's all for you to decide... go do some nice RP out there, however you do it! There are probably multiple variants of the Corvo anyways, every ship could be unique in some way. Just decide on something yourself.
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name: Corvo
mass: 720000 tons
necessary crew (usual crew): 3(40)
designated usage: Researcher/Long Range Explorer
history: The Corvo is a very new design. Its original design was not created by Zoners, but sold to Livadia along with all the rights. The most important feature about the Corvo is its simplicity. Only three people can fully operate the entire ship leaving room for a large team of specialists to do research.
The Corvo is capable of siriuswide communication and is equipped with a state of the art early warning system. Corvos are often build for independent teams and cooperations. Their technology is mostly compatible to siriuswide shipyards allowing easy maintenance.
No Corvo is really the same; almost every Corvo is customized for the users needs. Variants range from heavier armed or armored designs up to Corvos with highly specific research labs.
Oh, awesomel, thank you! All I found was a huge discussion on whether or not the Corvo is too big and should be turned into some gunboat/cruiser type thing and who knows what.
Since I was modelling my corvo after modern ice-breakers I was going to follow some of the stats from these beauties (chose these two as examples):
The range varies but in general they are between 38 and 140 or so. I'll probably go with both your posts and settle with 40-something just to make it interesting. Maybe 43
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