h'okay... home is being re-done... times of war call for newer ships, and home was starting to fall apart...
so... without further ado, meet home MKII:
Home MkII designated:
'Salvation'
as you can see this is a big step up from the old R-40... the newest in line of salvager ships the newly classed 'Demora heavy carrier' is often used for combat fleets as well as salvager fleets.... equipped with a top-side and bottom-side ion cannon and top-side and bottom-side dual heavy railcannons as well as two prow mounted fusion warhead torpedos... the demora heavy cruiser has thick ablasive armour and provides the salvager crews inside good protection from pirates and hostile frigates...
Demora heavy carrier:engines: 6 twin core fusion drives (not particularly fast but allwos for decent speed and FTL (faster than light)
hyperdrive: no less than 4 hyperdrive pylons, new design 'pylons' allow for other small frigates or corvettes within a set radius to jump with the heavy carrier without the need to dock first, and much more reliable than each ship jumping individually...
docking bays: 4, 2 on each side, all located near the rear.... enough space to hold 50 corvette sized ships as well as stoarge racks for R-20 salvagers...
weapons:
topside and bottomside ion cannons (near rear) - medium range, powerfull, extremely slow to charge, high drain in power, should only be fired if desperate or facing very heavy hostile armour...
topside and bottomside heavy railcannons (near front) - very long range, can fire either 'flak' or solid rounds, very high rate of fire....
point defence systems:
20 small railguns, mounted across the hull provide a cloud of anti-fighter flak
5 cluster missile launchers, each launchers fires a single missile that splits into 5 homing anti-fighter missiles... slow to reload, a nasty surprise for any would-be pirate bombers...
Shield generators:
1 prow mounted
2 rear mounted, one on either side
the shield generators can be set to draw ALL available power away from engines, weapons systems or a combination of the two to provide maximum protection while the cruiser runs from a fight.... any corvette or simialr sized vessel that remains close enough to the cruiser can benefit from this shielding and gain additional protection...
also.... all those R-20 'flyboys' (thank you Shiro for that name
) ... have got somthing new to fly....
Eph'tan assault corvette:engines: single ion drive, powerfull and allows for high speed movement.. also allows for very short FTL jumps...
Weapons: two twin railguns... suitable for engaging light to medium targets, medium range very high rate of fire, turret allows to large field of fire
Shields: single shield generator... needs to rely on the generators of the carrier for extra protection...
The assault corvette is the perfect escort for larger shipping... combining the speed of smaller strikecraft with decent protective armour, the powerfull, intuitive railgun turrets provide exceptional fields of fire.... flying in squadrons of 4 these corvettes fly out of a carriers docking bay and swarm an opponent foolish enough to try their luck against neutral shipping...
please, please, please oh, please watch this video of the assault corvettes on homeworl 2... im sure you'l understand exactly what i mean after this.. and tell me what you think as well!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjBIdjPHI4Iokay... backstory of home's (which is now called
'SALVATION' ) crew.... SHIRO, you will probably like this bit
'flyboys': the pilots of both the R-20's and will be the pilots of the new assault corvettes, ALL are feline, envied by other crew members for having the 'cool job'...
Engineers: the majority of the crew of salvation.... skilled worksmen and women.... a mix of species, but almost all are canine, such as foxes and wolves....
techies: all are rats or mice, very skilled when it comes to electronics... not very skilled when it comes to socialising or much else....
'high-ups': the officers and high ranking crew members, known by the flyboys and engineers as the 'high-ups' ... unlike in some shipping, even the high rankers are well practiced engineers and can often be seen down in the docks or mess hall playing cards or haivng a drink....
well there ya go! sorry for a mega mundo long post.... but i just wanted to get all the new info down for you guys.. and Shiro, so you can have some fun rping the engineers.... two people...two stories... one ship!
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