5th Internal Message to R. Admiral A. Watson III

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Origin: Lieutenant Gareth Dayton, Juneau Shipyard, Alaska system
Recipient: R. Admiral Adam Watson III
Subject: Details of the project

Greetings, Rear Admiral!
So the other day we were talking about my project and you asked me to send some details about it. You will find the basic concept in the attachments.
I hope you will like it and maybe you can expand the concept with your ideas.

Attachments

Project Hummingbird

The project's goal is to fill the gap between the Defiant-class and the Archer-class so we can have a more manoeuvrable ship that can hit somewhat hard on lighter capital ships. The first task is to choose a ship that can be easily accessed for us. I've chosen the CTE-12400 Condor-class civilian gunboat. I send every important data about the class.

Condor-class

"Designed with a generous power supply and adequate armor, the CTE-12400 Condor is still a rare sight in Sirius. The ship is a new design adapted from an obsolete Zoner model. Built and maintained by various organisations unable to develop or acquire military ships, the Condor is typically used for heavy escort, or, in the hands of terrorists, to deal with a heavy escort." - Short description.



Technical information:

Guns/Turrets: 0 / 6

Other equipment:
1 Cruise Distruptor Slot
1 Countermeasure Slot

Hull strength: 125,000
Cargo space: 450 units
Nanobots/Batteries: 350/350
Max. impulse speed: 80 m/s
Max. thrust speed: 140 m/s
Max. cruise speed: 350 m/s
Power output: 500,000 u
Power recharge: 50,000 u/s

Base concept

First Phase: Arsenal

First of all we do work from what we have so we will try to test existing weapon systems on the "Hummingbird" -this will be the name of the ship- If we found a fitting one we can continue with the Second Phase, but if not we have to look for foreign weapons or if nothing fits, create our own.

Second Phase: Powercore

If we mount hard-hitting weapons on this ship we will need a bigger amount of power, we have to mount a stronger generator if needed, we can give up some of the cargo space or some of the nanobot slots if needed. The power output of 600,000-650,000 u is what we are aiming currently. If we can manage to mount a more advanced powercore we can move to the Third Phase.

Third Phase: Charge boost

I was thinking about the Third Phase many times... To choose between stronger shield or quicker recharge. I think the recharge is more important because we can counter the loss of shield with the agility of the ship. So the recharge has to grow somewhat with the new generator. I think we can force out around 60,000 u/s from the new generator. But the experiments will show it anyways.

So this is the concept for now, I know it isn't that complete but since I have no access to these type of ships currently that's all I can do.
Thank you for your interest in this thing. I hope we can have the first heavy-gunboat (anti-capital) in Sirius.
I will send the whole concept to Captain Taylor too as soon as we can merge our ideas.

Regards, Dayton

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