Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I was recently building a Q-Ship and that got me looking at the archetypical Type P 400-Ton Corsair and I found the ship had issues. First, the 20 low berths for prisoners was double booked. Bad editing there. Then it stated that it was designed to snatch up 100-ton merchants whole. What 100-ton merchants, I asked. There really isn't such a beast.
Considering tweaks that could make it a better pirate ship led me to making this, the Type P6.5 650-Ton Corsair. I heaped on the add-ons I thought would make it a terror of the spaceways. It's 3X as expensive but can get targets that are twice as big and are so very much more capable. If I missed something or you have an additional suggestion, please speak up.
Now, the narrative.
This ship is the Type P 400-Ton Corsair's big, slightly lower tech brother. It can devour 200-ton ships whole and is more appropriately armed with 2 ion cannon barbettes to render the target helpless, a fusion gun barbette to deal heavy damage to anyone that disputes their right to do so, and three triple laser turrets to fight at range when need be. That said, it uses virtual gunners rather than live ones to give more space for use elsewhere.
The jump drive has the early jump advantage x3 to allow it to jump at 70 diameters if it senses a trap. It is equipped with additional sensor options to scout prey at greater ranges and is fueled and supplied for 14 weeks to allow it to lurk until suitable prey wanders into its sights. It has a crew of 5 and 10 thugs to subdue any resistance on the target. This is not the ship that any self-respecting merchant crew ever hopes to meet.
Imperial investigators have begun to suspect that while this class of ship is built with what seems to be Imperial technology, it is not originating from inside the Imperium. Is a rival polity building ships to destabilize trade inside the Imperium? Suspicions have turned toward the Zhodoni Consulate as this is exactly the kind of ploy they would try, and it is becoming more difficult to dismiss as a conspiracy theory with every new attack.
The spreadsheet is linked in the document in my signature.
Considering tweaks that could make it a better pirate ship led me to making this, the Type P6.5 650-Ton Corsair. I heaped on the add-ons I thought would make it a terror of the spaceways. It's 3X as expensive but can get targets that are twice as big and are so very much more capable. If I missed something or you have an additional suggestion, please speak up.
Now, the narrative.
This ship is the Type P 400-Ton Corsair's big, slightly lower tech brother. It can devour 200-ton ships whole and is more appropriately armed with 2 ion cannon barbettes to render the target helpless, a fusion gun barbette to deal heavy damage to anyone that disputes their right to do so, and three triple laser turrets to fight at range when need be. That said, it uses virtual gunners rather than live ones to give more space for use elsewhere.
The jump drive has the early jump advantage x3 to allow it to jump at 70 diameters if it senses a trap. It is equipped with additional sensor options to scout prey at greater ranges and is fueled and supplied for 14 weeks to allow it to lurk until suitable prey wanders into its sights. It has a crew of 5 and 10 thugs to subdue any resistance on the target. This is not the ship that any self-respecting merchant crew ever hopes to meet.
Imperial investigators have begun to suspect that while this class of ship is built with what seems to be Imperial technology, it is not originating from inside the Imperium. Is a rival polity building ships to destabilize trade inside the Imperium? Suspicions have turned toward the Zhodoni Consulate as this is exactly the kind of ploy they would try, and it is becoming more difficult to dismiss as a conspiracy theory with every new attack.
The spreadsheet is linked in the document in my signature.
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