Parts for an AHL

[Antony]

I'll grab that idea about the computer rooms, should confuse the players nicely.

 

[Liam Devlin]

As the AHL has multiple bridges, this scheme should work--there was a main bridge, a battle bridge, and an Aux bridge. each with a computer...
--you did say she took a Bridge hit in battle with the "Ultimate Victory" BB.. <evil smile>!

 

[Drakon]

Originally posted by Antony:
In the post virus era (1201 Imp) how would parts for this ship be acquired or built. Obviously much of the ship is still TL14 with electronics and weapon systems upgraded to TL15. Would the ship be sent (with a skeleton crew) into the old imperium looking for parts (an epic adventure).

NO! If I understand the situation right, this is an extremely rare find. And that means a valuable artifact in its own right. I am not sure about reverse engineering rules, exactly what limitations are there toward being able to manufacture parts based on extensive study of the ship itself, (or with aid of the ship's AI, computer and paper files, documents, manuals, etc.) But the last thing I would do is send a one of a kind high tech ship that is damaged, into any kind of unknown area.

You send a ship out, you risk losing it. You send it into an unknown region of space, you have an increased risk. Send it into unknown space while damaged, you see where I am going.

Take the ship into port. Study it, take it apart and see if you can advance the tech level of your star port. In addition...

Or would another ship be sent to scout out first?

This is a lot more reasonable. Send a smaller ship, possibly a freighter (Marvana or Beowulf, armed and armoured) and possibly with escort. It depends on just how much you know about the region, how it has faired since your last contact, etc.

Did I mention that the ships computer has a similar limited AI to that of the old Kinunir?

Or would the ship be broken up by Alston for parts?

What do people think?

Where would the parts go? Considering the firepower of the AHL, it seems keeping it together, OR disassembly for study and copying would be more reasonable approaches.

Who knows you have found this thing? Competing systems/government, or even non-government factions? Just because you are not traisping through space does not mean you ain't going to find adventure. Sometimes the adventure comes to you.

 

[Antony]

Given Alston's proximity to the Delsun Czarate it is probable that Delsun knows of the Cause Rampants presense.

Heres where the political situation gets interesting, Alston has a much greater population base than Delsun but only one A class port, currently limited to 1,000 dt hulls (though a larger facility is opening soon) Delsun has a lower population, and two B class ports. Delsun also inherited a bigger relic fleet compared to Alston. A recent raid on Delsun has destroyed Delsuns zochai fabrication facilities thus putting back its plans to upgrade both B class ports to A class for at least months if not years. (Who could have arranged this I wonder?)

The use of Cause Rampant in case of a war with Delsun would be obvious. But against Delsuns cruiser Presidio the results will be "interesting"

See the cruiser at
www.users.bigpond.com/Skaran/Banners/equipment/Craft/Delsun/presidio.html

And somewhere out there is the virus infected dreadnought Ultimate Victory...

 

[mike wightman]

Antony wrote:
See the cruiser at

Is there meant to be a link to follow?

 

[Antony]

Its on the line immediately beneath "See the cruiser at..
But in case you missed it it is
www.users.bigpond.com/Skaran/Banners/equipment/Craft/Delsun/presidio.html

 

[mike wightman]

Sorry, but all I'm getting is empty space

 

[mike wightman]

Ahh, wait a minute. If I use the "reply with quote" then I can see the URL and copy it to my browser. It appears as two merged URLs by the way

 

[Antony]

Very strange, the URL looks normal in my browser and clicking on it opens the correct page. The preview also looks fine, go figure.

 

[mike wightman]

Even stranger, I tried it on my machine at work and there it is (the link above). So it appears to be a problem with my home PC software. Don't know what it could be though?