Free Ship if Anyone Wants to play around with it.

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It didn't hit me just how big this thing is until you said "scale it down to RH BB size". Jeepers, how much cargo will this monster have?

Well--the idea is to create a role play vessel for the following purposes--as well as others some might think of:

1. Deep Surveillance Base
   
2. Science Station
   
3. Deep Mining Platform
   
4. Mobile Depot
   
5. Criminal Loot Storage for Resale
   
6. Miner's Mobile Resell Point
   
7. Long Term Storage for Limited Time Available Players
   

We were shooting for huge cargo--in light of size reductions and all, I'd say scale this down to (rough approximation):

• 25k cargo
  
• 400k hull
  
• 500 mil Price
  
• 800 nanobots
  
• No Docking Planetary Docking Rings
  
• 10kps/5kps Impulse/Reverse Speed
  
• No Shield
  
• No Thruster
  
• 59 sec Delay to Cruise Speed Activation
  
• No Countermeasures
  
• No CD/Torps
  
• 4 x Gunboat Turrets
  

The idea behind it is that it an "on station" ship--not moved often--slow and difficult to maneuver, hard to dock and navigate. Hence the immense cargo hold. it is like a whaling ship--it goes out for months and captures, processes and stores its goods.

Criminal groups could loot npc shipping, store the good loot they can't dock and sell lawfully and then save and resell it to smugglers later--instead of selling on a criminal base and losing all the profit.

Role play possibilities are immense: Mining Company, Secret Base, Covert Espionage Base, Space Factory--you get the idea.

Its important that it not be worth the trouble of "trading" in so that it isn't abused.

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