Solomani Confederation (Military)

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Skill Distribution

1. A ninety nine tonne primary hull, with a bunch of cargo and fuel pods attached, is not going to be expected to fight.

2. The courier could add upto twenty one tonnes of external cargo, in addition to the one hundred twenty tonnes of semi permanent drop tanks.

3. This cargo could also take the form of a smallcraft.

4. Or, weapon pods.

5. The primary hull would have three firmpoints, which could be converted to a seven tonne barbette.

6. That would make it potentially, if armed with missiles or torpedoes, a threat to commerce.

7. Not being castrated like energy weapon systems, self propelled and guided ordnance tends to be well ranged.

8. Bridgewise, three tonnes control centre could be specialized for jump operations, and another three tonner could be specialized for flight operations.

9. And if you're willing to spend another quarter of a megastarbux, one more for gunnery.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Skill Distribution

A. If you drop the primary hull to fifty tonnes, you could use a cockpit, which is, like, fifty times cheaper than a bridge.

B. Since Cluster Truck was written way after the latest High Guard update, not sure why a kilotonne trailer has one.

C. Or, that it would appear outside the manoeuvering function, it apparently can control the rest of the hull.

D. Anyway, one aspect that it logically couldn't control would be jump operations.

E. Canon, via Azhanti, says that can be controlled directly from engineering.

F. So, you wouldn't even have to add on a small bridge, or a specialized jump operation control centre.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Skill Distribution

G. Two hundred forty tonnes minus fifty would be one hundred ninety tonnes.

H. One hundred twenty tonne drop tanks would leave seventy tonnes capacity for external cargo.

I. That would make make the fifty tonne primary hull solely for engineering, with a thirty five tonne jump drive, one and a half tonne single cockpit, and balance thirteen and a half tonnes for life support, manoeuvre drive, and fusion reactor.

J. Since it's a fleet courier, that would be a very advanced standard seven tonne fusion reactor.

K. Though you could just have a couple of tonnes of batteries accumulate one hundred twenty power points.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Skill Distribution

L. At twelve hundred parsec tonnes, non fleet courier utilization would be three hundred tonnes at four parsecs, four hundred tonnes at three parsecs.

M. What would seem more sedate ranges, six hundred tonnes at two parsecs, and twelve hundred tonnes with a monoparsec jump drive.

N. At this point, it becomes more of an issue of finding enough hull surface area on the primary hull, to attach the external cargo to.

O. Of course, we could offload the jump drive to a booster pack.

P. Which becomes an easier process, if it's understood exactly how a manoeuvre booster pack becomes integrated with a primary hull.

 

[Condottiere]

Confederation Navy: Skill Distribution

Q. Because control centre volumes, and costs, are based on usable volume.

R. And/or, actual usable volume connected/integrated.

S. Attached volume is separate, such as docked cargo secondary hulls.

T. And, apparently, if not used as flight controls, you can control, at least, a kilotonne's worth with a cockpit.

U. In accordance to Cluster Truck trailers.