08-14-2012, 07:51 PM
a few ideas/thoughts that have been bouncing around my head, that I wanted to put down before I forgot them/get deistracted (agan).
- Sometime between SOS-Con and the halfway through the Boskone War, B.5 manage to make weaponized lasers. Haven't decided when, and I'm not too worried about them being 'first' (a close second or third is fine, since I'm sure many groups were attempting the same, and the War would have added motivation).
- In my write up for "Riding the Wave" I mentioned B.5 getting a defensive upgrade. Part of that was adding a mess of point defence and offensive gun all over the hull, plus retractable sheilding for some of the more vulnerable spots. Another was the creation of the Minifuries, 1/4 scale Starfury space fighters from the Babylon 5 series. Each Minifury is 'piloted' by a non-sapient AI (more like a high grade videogame AI). Like their sourcematerial, they are highly manuverable, and have an Accelleration based drive system.
One of their quirks is that they don't like travelling too far from B.5, unless assigned as escort to a person/craft, in which case then tend to stay close to their 'principle'. Basicly, 'too far' means being beyond (human) eyesight.
- At the same time, the Starhawk also underwent a wartime upgrade, the gunturrents were upgraded, the passenger cabins under the cockpit were ripped out and replaced by a large laser cannon, along with a dedicated powersource and capacitor banks (fires a powerful beam for about a second, then takes several seconds to recharge), attachment points for 4 Minifuries, and armor plating (which did slow the ship down some, but the Crew were planing to act as an assault transport, so durability was more important). After the war the cannon was converted back to passenger cabins and the armor plating was removed.
- and now a silly thought; a business of some sort named after the founders, who have the surnames of Wright and Wong. 8P
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
- Sometime between SOS-Con and the halfway through the Boskone War, B.5 manage to make weaponized lasers. Haven't decided when, and I'm not too worried about them being 'first' (a close second or third is fine, since I'm sure many groups were attempting the same, and the War would have added motivation).
- In my write up for "Riding the Wave" I mentioned B.5 getting a defensive upgrade. Part of that was adding a mess of point defence and offensive gun all over the hull, plus retractable sheilding for some of the more vulnerable spots. Another was the creation of the Minifuries, 1/4 scale Starfury space fighters from the Babylon 5 series. Each Minifury is 'piloted' by a non-sapient AI (more like a high grade videogame AI). Like their sourcematerial, they are highly manuverable, and have an Accelleration based drive system.
One of their quirks is that they don't like travelling too far from B.5, unless assigned as escort to a person/craft, in which case then tend to stay close to their 'principle'. Basicly, 'too far' means being beyond (human) eyesight.
- At the same time, the Starhawk also underwent a wartime upgrade, the gunturrents were upgraded, the passenger cabins under the cockpit were ripped out and replaced by a large laser cannon, along with a dedicated powersource and capacitor banks (fires a powerful beam for about a second, then takes several seconds to recharge), attachment points for 4 Minifuries, and armor plating (which did slow the ship down some, but the Crew were planing to act as an assault transport, so durability was more important). After the war the cannon was converted back to passenger cabins and the armor plating was removed.
- and now a silly thought; a business of some sort named after the founders, who have the surnames of Wright and Wong. 8P
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin