Erik Boielle
SOC-12
So I was reading
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jimv/tca/tne.txt
and it occurred to me that if there are going to be a reasonable number of 3rdI relic (or even new build) 500,000 ton battlewagons roaming the stars in the New Era (in the hands of the 4thI, Solomani, Reconstituted Vilani Empire, Black Imperium and Dominate, the little Aurora clippers at 3000 tons are looking even smaller than they used to.
Now, from examining that document, it would seem that the original Longship concept call for something a little bigger - a jump drive for transporting stuff to a system without decent defences.
Now, given, that has little to do with the price of fish in Grimsby market. But like, I liked that image I get of a slightly larger, slightly bigger, slightly less cohesive Star Viking community (with independent ships coming in to conflict more often than would be implied by the finished TNE).
Cept the lack of decent manoeuvre drives is obviously wrong.
Everyone knows that Star Vikings are terribly good a ship to ship combat, what with them practicing on vampires and each other and everyone else all the time.
So anyway, making the coalition a player might be easier if you gave them a few high population worlds, and some really big longships from which they mount Really Large Scale smash and grab raids in which the unbolt and carry off whole factory complexes.
Plus they can then make a Significant Military Contribution to the war against the Black Imperium.
And it gives a ready definition of Star Viking for when the Star Vikings bugger off to do their great work – they have these large, self contained ship so everyone on them counts as a Star Viking, and everyone who isn’t on one Isn’t a Star Viking. Plus the big ships are mostly self contained and so can do the great work better on their own.
So like at a big meeting all the Star Viking Captains can get together and decide to go off, rather than the Coalition Planning Authority deciding to send off the men of their teeth arms and sundry freelancers as scapegoats.
And they’ll be more tied to their ships than to their home planets, dealing with militant nationalists deciding to up sticks and go issue – cause they are taking their homes (the big longships) with them.
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jimv/tca/tne.txt
and it occurred to me that if there are going to be a reasonable number of 3rdI relic (or even new build) 500,000 ton battlewagons roaming the stars in the New Era (in the hands of the 4thI, Solomani, Reconstituted Vilani Empire, Black Imperium and Dominate, the little Aurora clippers at 3000 tons are looking even smaller than they used to.
Now, from examining that document, it would seem that the original Longship concept call for something a little bigger - a jump drive for transporting stuff to a system without decent defences.
Now, given, that has little to do with the price of fish in Grimsby market. But like, I liked that image I get of a slightly larger, slightly bigger, slightly less cohesive Star Viking community (with independent ships coming in to conflict more often than would be implied by the finished TNE).
Cept the lack of decent manoeuvre drives is obviously wrong.
Everyone knows that Star Vikings are terribly good a ship to ship combat, what with them practicing on vampires and each other and everyone else all the time.
So anyway, making the coalition a player might be easier if you gave them a few high population worlds, and some really big longships from which they mount Really Large Scale smash and grab raids in which the unbolt and carry off whole factory complexes.
Plus they can then make a Significant Military Contribution to the war against the Black Imperium.
And it gives a ready definition of Star Viking for when the Star Vikings bugger off to do their great work – they have these large, self contained ship so everyone on them counts as a Star Viking, and everyone who isn’t on one Isn’t a Star Viking. Plus the big ships are mostly self contained and so can do the great work better on their own.
So like at a big meeting all the Star Viking Captains can get together and decide to go off, rather than the Coalition Planning Authority deciding to send off the men of their teeth arms and sundry freelancers as scapegoats.
And they’ll be more tied to their ships than to their home planets, dealing with militant nationalists deciding to up sticks and go issue – cause they are taking their homes (the big longships) with them.
