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Any published guidelines on how long it takes to online a ship?
As part of doing wargame rules for High Guard I find myself needing to know how long it takes to online various ship systems. Clearly ships will operate with some positions uncrewed and some systems switched off (the spinal mount obviously is not continuously charged to firing level). The length of time it takes to go to battle stations and arm these systems is important.
As an example of why it matters, as far as I can tell, the naval Phalanx CIWS system (edit: a point defense gun) has been used 3 times "for real" and failed all 3 times. Two of these were because the system was inactive at the time of the attack (USS STARK, INS HANIT). Not relevant to this issue but for those interested, the remaing time was USS JARRETT where it engaged a friendly target instead.
I think they probably have several levels of preparedness - no weapons up - a few turrets up just in case - all turrets up, spinal & bays down - etc.
A related question. Are nukes routinely carried, or issued only in times of crisis?
As part of doing wargame rules for High Guard I find myself needing to know how long it takes to online various ship systems. Clearly ships will operate with some positions uncrewed and some systems switched off (the spinal mount obviously is not continuously charged to firing level). The length of time it takes to go to battle stations and arm these systems is important.
As an example of why it matters, as far as I can tell, the naval Phalanx CIWS system (edit: a point defense gun) has been used 3 times "for real" and failed all 3 times. Two of these were because the system was inactive at the time of the attack (USS STARK, INS HANIT). Not relevant to this issue but for those interested, the remaing time was USS JARRETT where it engaged a friendly target instead.
I think they probably have several levels of preparedness - no weapons up - a few turrets up just in case - all turrets up, spinal & bays down - etc.
A related question. Are nukes routinely carried, or issued only in times of crisis?