New fueless ship class

[ollobrain]

Got any specs of pics on the new fueless drive shipclass and any plans on what its gunna be used forLove the new star systems supergiant stars btw

[s2odan]

Ok then here's a few specs to whet your appetite Although these are going to be changed later. I will probably double the size and power of the ship as the scale is still too small. At the moment its about 3 times bigger than a HammerheadHeavyFreighter or a FlowerFairy Heavy Freighter, but like I said that will be increased.Its an Imperial Explorer or ImpEx. There's an unfinished/untextured version in one of the alphas (7.5 I think), it was in there by accident The idea behind it was that I have always thought the Imperial Explorer was a nod towards StarTrek, so I went silly and made a proper startrek lookalike.I like it, but I think its a ship you will either like or hate...Ok Engines:Has a new 'impulse' drive or perhaps we can come up with a better name. But the drive has no exhausts like a rocket... Ok who am I kidding we have all seen Startrek, you all know what that is :)The impulse drive just gives the ship even acceleration all round for every direction, so hover and reverse and side thrust would be equal to the main engines thrust.At the moment they give about 15 or 16G of acceleration when empty, so the ship will normally have about 5 - 7G with its drive and equipment.It will come with the Class X hyperdrive which is as powerful as a class 20 drive as far as the games scaling goes, however this one doesn't use any fuel just to be a bit different. Hopefully in the future the drive will not be for sale and will only come with this ship and a handful of others, that way I could reduce its size and have more usable space for the ship while keeping the volume down lower.The range is 30LY with just the drive, I will work on that and probably change it to around 50 (too much perhaps?)with just the drive, so it should come to about 30LY with equipment, and 20 fully loaded.At the moment it weighs 1200 tons and can carry 4000 m^3 (It is not a trading ship). The engines will carry about 10000tons of weight from a standard world, although it will only carry the same kind of volume as a large trading ship despite it being several times bigger.Carries 80 missiles *subject to change*

[ollobrain]

nope it looks fine 50au unloaded seems reasonable

[s2odan]

Thx. The saucer section makes a convincing flying saucer too for the thargoids.We could even say that the Imperials reverse enginieered a thargoid saucer, and this is what they came up with...? Which is kind of comical too

[ollobrain]

any consideration given to say the enemies of the tharogiods to ? like another sub faction for later reference and shhip classes

[Marcel]

As for the Thargoids, how about the saucer from Mars Attacks? You've got a Federation design for an Imperial ship. What would an equivalent Federation ship look like, an Imperial Star Destroyer? Just tossing out ideas here.How about a Federation design based on the Fer-De-Lance?

[ollobrain]

Imperial star destroyer for the "rebel" factions ingame could be a priate class ship to

[s2odan]

That sounds a good idea Marcel, could be slightly amusing too.