Solomani Confederation (Military)

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Liberty Class Frigates

V. There's one advantage to placing the fusion reactor into a removable module.

W. Murphy's Law being as it is, at one point, the fusion reactor magnetic bottle will pop it's cork.

X. Since having a reactor meltdown inside the spacecraft itself, will be a somewhat heated affair.

Y. The fusion reactor can now more easily be ejected from the spacecraft.

Z. Or, you can deliberately let the magnetic bottle deteriorate, and use it as a space mine.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Liberty Class Frigates

1. On the other hand, having multiple engineering modules would allow singular extractions of part of the engineering compartment.

2. You still pay one hundred fifty percent for the replacement, but it's for one engineering module, assuming that's the only part that needs to be replaced.

3. You can have the minimum five one hundred five tonne jump drive modules, at twenty thousand parsec tonnes.

4. And, four thirty five tonne manoeuvre drive modules.

5. Power plants would be specific to power the engineering hull, and the propulsion drives.

6. If enough volume is leftover, you could then do an all or nothing armoured citadel around them.

7. Of course, then it's a question of hull configuration, that could penalize armouring by upto two hundred percent.

8. Balancing mission critical equipment and crew protection, for ship building cost.

9. You'd also include the primary control centre, of course.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Liberty Class Frigates

A. If I can squeeze engineering into one single kilotonne primary hull, that leaves me four kilotonne secondary hulls.

B. Obvious move is two kilotonne secondary hull reserved for jump fuel tanks.

C. The other two, cargo, crew, and weapon systems.

D. But then, I had a cunning plan.

E. I could distribute the components equally across all four secondary hulls.

F. Which would then standardize construction for secondary hulls.