Ideas?

[JMISBEST]

Hello

A friend is working on A Idea for A Campaign similiar to Pirates Of Drinax, but with The Pcs being Pirates loyal to 1 of The Lords and want to set up A Pirate Republic in The Trojan Reach and would like you to design blueprints for a super-heavy Frigate with considerable Fighter Capacity that can hold 1,240 crew in uncomfortably close but not cramped quarters that was somehow stolen from The Imperium and ideas for how Theevs Pirate Lords may have pulled it off.

PS I'm no good for this kind of thing. I may be getting tbe hang of 2nd edition ship-building, but 2,600 tons is my current average limit, I can't, yet, do much beyond 3,300 tons and tbe best I have ever done is 3,800 tons. Please help

 

[locarno24]

ideas for how Theevs Pirate Lords may have pulled it off.

Is Theev still a GeeDeeCo front in this setting? Because if so, that's not all that hard - an Imperial Megacorporation (or something close to it) easily has the connections and the finance to lay their mittens on the concept plans for a light warship being developed by a shipyard somewhere in the Imperium.

As a result, whilst they'd be hesitant to 'just hand it over', they definitely have the resources to get it - it's a question of them deciding it's worth their while. A multi-KdTon warship is a hell of a thing to hand a bunch of pirates - and handing them the capacity to build many themselves is arguably worse. Still, there's always someone who might be trying to make a personal profit, regardless of the organisation's overall strategy.

 

[Jump Dave]

If crew size is anything like it was in CT, then only Dreadnoughts have a crew size that you're looking for (all this is from the old CT Supplement 9, Fighting Ships):

* 200 kton Plankwell class Dreadnought: crew 1163 (no fighters carried)
* 200 kton Kokirraks class Dreadnought crew:1533 (no fighters carried)

For big-crew ships with fighters, you had:

* 100 kton Antiama class Fleet Carrier: crew 909 (300 heavy fighters carried)
* 500 kton Tigress class Dreadnought: crew 4054 (300 heavy fighters carried)

"Frigate" wasn't used as a ship class category in those days - you had destroyers, escorts of various types, then Light/Medium/Heavy Cruisers. Ships below cruiser size didn't generally carry fighters.

For my money, I'd recommend the classic (and designated obsolete, in the game fiction) Azhanti HIgh Lightning class frontier cruiser - 60 ktons, crew of 395, and carries 80 light fighters). Its status as obsolete could make it easier to steal (maybe a surplus one was given to a local planetary navy, and it's stolen during the transfer, or afterwards due to incompetent leadership).

Any stolen ship this size is definitely going to attract some heavy-hitter pursuers - it's just too dangerous. The smaller the rogue ship, the less attention it's going to attract, IMHO.

 

[JMISBEST]

More ideas please