the tundra

[sovereign]

As far as the "one person only"... well, see, in the Nomad Lore there's this little mention of Nomad influence in Liberty... granted, I'll be completely re-writing it, but the time may come and it may be nice to have a few ships like this. If any of you have ever seen Babylon 5, the corrupt Earth gov't did some Faustian deals with the Shadows, and turned their normal Omega Destroyers:



Into these things: (which are really hard to find decent pictures of... notice the "skin" and the spines coming out of it, that's the important part)



Granted, the alien tech incorporated into it was dark and spiderlike, but the same idea could be used here. The Nomads DO have a Liberty-built shipyard, after all... while these ships would be far from common, the occasional integrated cruiser could find a home. I would suggest that the infocard be made nonspecific to the Tundra, and usable for The Wild (that's "The Wild" not "Das Wilde", by the way... we have a Liberty branch, we're just a lot quieter right now. Keyword "right now").

As for stats... battlecruiser is the wrong direction. Even though it will get bigger because of the spines and stuff, it's still on the small end of "cruiser" and has a forward gun. It could get a modified forward gun for this class of ship (in fact, it really should get a separate one) but "cruiser" is definitely the right place to be. Especially for a ship that should end up in the hands of more than just one person, and can actually find escorts, it shouldn't be in the same classification as the Necrosis- which goes out of its way to be a "take on anything by itself and have a decent chance of victory". Anti-cap cruiser is where this should be, the Liberty Cruiser it's based on is like that and that's what Zapp wants it to be.


Oh, about the "Wild should try to blend in" that I've seen from a few people... have you ever seen people RP with the Wild? 90% of the time, they see "Wilde.name" and go "ZOMGWILDEHALP". Now and then we get someone we can convince (from a distance) that we're normal, but it's pretty rare. Plus, a ship like this would probably read on long-distance scanners as a modified Liberty Cruiser- and once they get close enough to see the spines, there's no use pretending anyway.

I like the idea, keep at it.

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