' Wrote:Incoming wall of text. Basically meant to have all of the ideas for the ship in one place instead of spread out, so it's easier to read.
short version is: I was thinking about 600k-700k armor, as it's nearly as long as the RM BS. Eight gunboat turrets on the larger mounts, which I think razors would be best served, as it's a fairly large ship and solaris just wouldn't work. Around 6000-700 cargo (maybe?) since it is, indeed, much larger. No thruster and turning speed between the Lib dread and RM BS. There'd of course possible be a bunch of smaller transport turrets scattered around, as the gunboat razors can only fire four up or down and hardly to the sides. It will have two docking bays but those are just for docking freighters and fighters, same as the docking bays on the prison and luxury liner.
Now to be honest, that doesn't sound like something even close to a liner. Its honestly way too high in armor. 600-700k would be like a small battleship and I don't think that would be desired. I would say a respectable amount would be 230-250k at most.
Cargo size of 6-7k?! Again no. Efficientcy may be one thing, but to also compare other liners, the Enterprise has a cargo of at most 4.3k and with the size here, I would say maybe 4.7k cargo or even 5k. Anything higher would not be recommended.
Putting gunboat turrets on this vessel would be indeed the most plausible idea due to the nature on its construction. However would also then say that with the size of the vessel the power core would have to be high enough to support the amount.
Not putting a thruster on it, I'm mixed on. Having one would serve purpose but then to justify its size so would not having one. And the turning speed I would also be mixed on due to the size.
Now would such a vessel truly be open use for everyone? No restrictions you say but in dealing with the coalition itself I'm not so sure that would be a wise choice. Perhaps keep it to a means in like how people get a barge except addressing it to Coalition Command then then having the materials needed shipped to a certian location for its construction? To me that sounds more of a win-win scenario.
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