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FT-Liberator

From: "Bif Smith" <bif@b...>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:56:48 +0100
Subject: FT-Liberator

I was just watching at the weekend repeats of blakes7 on uk gold, and
some
of the comments about the liberator in the story raised some ideas for
having such a ship in FT. These comments were along the lines of things
like
"energy banks depleated" and such like (for those of you that don`t
know,
blakes7 was a old, cheesy, cheep BBC sci-fi series).

This leads me to conclude that the liberator is actually a human reverse
engineered version of a SV warship. As such, it will not quite have the
capablities of a SV warship, but will have greater ablities than a
normal
human ship, in certain areas (note the in certain areas).

The UN, who had bits of the alien ships humans had encountered, were
interested in fitting some such systems into their own ships to give
them
ablities like what their alien enimies were capable of. The efforts to
copy
the SV lead to the birth of the liberator. The human reverse engineering
ran
into dificulties in the power generators, and couldn`t fit enough to
power
all the systems effectively. Instead, the human engineers used power
generators and a system of superconducting capacitors that would store
the
energy which could be used in situations of maximum power use. The only
problem with such a system was that the power capacitors would explode
violently when dammaged. The human engineers managed to copy the SV
drive
system, FTL, and the sheild generators. The weapons were a different
story,
but they did manage to modifiy some Cl.3 beam batts to a remote power
system
at less mass than a normal Cl.3 batt, with the ablity to take a greater
power throughput than normal henseforth called blasters). The human
engineers decided that the PDS system was better if a standard human
system
was used, that wasn`t dependent on the energy systems being operative,
and
as a backup, fitted a standard pasma torpedo launcher that was also
avalible
at times of low power. One improvement the human engineers did make was
in
fitting a Phalon multi layered armour onto the hull of the ship, making
it a
lot more resistant to mass driver fire. The liberator ended up as a one
off,
horendously expensive, cutting edge technology ship that had it`s
baptism of
fire in the defense of sol. The ship was presumed destroyed in battle,
but
stories keep being heard of a strange ship in deep space, searching for
the
KV homeworlds, matching the discription of the liberator.

In game terms, this ship would be used like a SV ship, with some
differences. The only systems that require the power generators are the
drives, screens, and the main Cl.3 batts. The PDS and pulse torp do not
require power points. The power generators are 1 mass per power
generator,
and the power capacitors are 1 mass per 2 power points (and explode with
a
force of 1D6 DP per stored power point if fail a threshold roll). The
modified Cl.3 batts are used exactly like SV stinger nodes, except they
are
4 mass each and have 3 arc fire.

My liberator design would be thus-

Mass=100  Cost=445 (haven`t decided costs yet, only a rough draft, but
working on 50% more for new systems)

Item					 Mass			 Cost
Basic hull				     0			      
100
Hull DP=14			       14			    28
Drives (FTL+Normal)		 20			      60
Screens (level2)		       10			     45
Power generators (13)		  13				39
Energy banks (14 Pwr points)	7			     21
Armour L1=3			       3			      9
	     L2=2			     2				
 12
	     L3=2			     2				
 18
Blasters x4				  16			       
72
P.Torp (3arc)				  6			      
18
PDS x5					    5				
15
F.Con x2				    2				
 8

If you look at the above ship, it will seem overpowered in certain
circumstances (especially in it`s speed). But if you actually play this
ship, it`s firepower and speed are not matched by it`s staying power. If
it
takes dammage, it will die very quickly. I designed it`s mass as this so
it
could be classed as a advanced experimental  BC (xBCA?), which it`s
speed
and limited hitting power would suggest it`s best suited for (hit and
run,
or chaising smaller ships).

BIF


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