Quote:[b]HRogge wrote:[/b]Oscar did not create they system (even if he is a Mad, I wanted to avoid too many expertises, so weapon systems by late 2012 was too much). As I said, it is a Federation design; be bough the fisrt one, and the handwavium strain to build the rest.
Catgirl Industries would like to acquire the Handwavium strain for this system... *G*
I don't know if the trekkies would sell the designs and strain when there is not a war going one, but it is a 'wave weapon system, so it is usually safe for people; I don't see any reason why they would not sell if (well, maybe if the girls joined the Galactic Republic or some other aberration)
Quote:Building 9 more ships within one year is quite a lot... how much of Marduk city is used as a shipyard?It is a lot, in hindsight. (and worse, it is 11 more ships, not 9, for a full dozen). I think only six will be fully finished, and the other six will have only the hull done by the end, not even engines (they may have been fitted with engines in a rush, and sent with no weapons or infirmary services just in time for the Fall of Boskone Prime)
The Marduk shipyards, before and after the war, aren't very important: They build Genesis construction ships, mostly. But they are, size-wise, big, because Genesis projects are big; and there is an entire materials industry nearby, because that's one of the things Genesis creates (space habitat domes need very hardy beams, to say nothing of the massive supports of Marduk and Kandor domes) There is also the big industrial dome outsde the city, wich has additional industries for droids, electronics and such.
During the war, trough, there were tens of thousands of belter refugees around. And every one of then was very motivated in the war effort, obviously. Their labor finished the city in record time, build the defenses, expanded the shipyard capacity tenfold, provided crew for the ships and manned the Kandor and Marduk militias. (there was never even the risk of an actual Boskonian attack in Marduk or all of Luna, but of course the belters will brag than this all was due to their defences)
Quote:Hmm...The Besieger is a flight of fancy; I won't be hurt or offended it it is not allowed: I made it because I planed to build a huge, 40k flying cathedral style ship sometime after the war, and I though "what would give Oscar the idea?"
And talking about 40k ships, the armoured front of the ships (which now than I think on it, must have some fancy nautical name ~runs to wikipedia~), the bow looks rather line the bow of 40k equivalents. Well, since it was what gave me the idea ("this thing looks like it was built for ramming") it is no surprise. But that may add the ocasional quirk...
I should clarify than when I say "finished structure" I meant just the skeleton of the ship; none of the interior decks are even started, and the outer hull itself is half done. No weapons, life support, or engines at all. Or so it is claimed (but then, it did move somehow from Luna to wherever Great Justice have drydocked it...)