Galactic Travel and Information Help Desk (RP help)

[Nelowulf]

There's always the Outlaw Star thing I thought up a while ago.

We're mostly crew of a ship that the imperials chase across the galaxy and slip through their fingers, like a keystone cop movie.  

[Sol Walker]

what would we call it? Stormie and the Bandit?  

[Nelowulf]

That's not a half bad name...

But anyhow, I'm not too worried about RPs at the moment. We have three already, and the one that's going to end in about a month already has a sequel coming up.  

[Sol Walker]

yeah. RP's we got. fuure RPs will come along in the future.  

[FrozenPhoenix32]

Well the CotGCW trilogy is like..epic and galaxy spanning.

Our other two are like...one planet missions, just one group in thousands, which appears insignficant.

Once CotGCW3 is over, we need something that can keep that standard.  

[Nelowulf]

we'll confront that problem in six months, when we're halfway through the COTGCW end..  

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Cale Darksun

what would we call it? Stormie and the Bandit?

Hey, I like! ^__^

But, what time period would it be in?  

[Sol Walker]

probably rebellion era.  

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Cale Darksun

probably rebellion era.

Makes sense. 3nodding  

[Sol Walker]

well that time period is rife with rebellious outlaws.  

[HereticX]

Ugh...I'm tired, so this might not make sense or be stupid. :XP



Hmm...Mustafar, I'd like to have, but...Mustafar (or any other neutral world) doesn't have to be taken by violent conflict, does it? I mean, they might become allies.
Still, a military conquest can be quick, and all-dominating, which may be what I have to do since I need to catch up to the other armies.
Umm...in the event of conquests, it'll take a while for the native populations to be assimilated into and get used to the new government, and until then, you'd probably have to have a hefty garrison to maintain control...ugh, I'm not thinking too straight, does this sound right?

So...diplomatic targets include Slakko and (if possible) Mustafar.
Military Targets I think would be...Telti (NR) at the top, for huge droid production facilities...Bilbringi (FSL), because it possesses shipyards, and some advanced tech, and it can be developed for greater production.



Umm...military forces of the Big Three.
NR: Largest Navy [spread thin over large territory], large territory (wide resource base), decent Army (2nd?).

FSL: Decent Navy, Fewer-but-more valuable planets, biggest army?

Drako (Hey, his side have a name yet? If not, then NHI)...NHI: Smallest Navy, Smallest Army (?), Smallest Poorest Territory (at least there's less to defend)... sweatdrop I'm screwed. Wait, I've got sixteen thousand barbarians. Yep, screwed.

What can I bring to the table...?
Um...I'm thinking he has some of the best droids and fighters.
His ships...some warships, but I'm thinking a large portion of his fleet is going to be heavily converted freighters...like, a Q-Ship, but with a good chance against ships of the line.
I'm thinking he did a pretty good job of hiding his assets, so his factories, even on occupied worlds, might take some time to find. But he's still looking to expand.

I've had this bouncing in my head for a while (so I might as well get it out and have it ridiculed xd )...
Take one of the freighters (not the tramp ones, I mean the big ones), of which I'm sure he (running a business) has a lot of already, and is already set up to build. Now, add armor and such, give all sorts of military grade equipment, power core, shields, etc. It has a high volume and carrying capacity, so you can pack a lot in. On the outside, don't skimp on defensive blasters. Then, you can specialize, and try to work with the strengths and weaknesses. Regular (more defense blasters, some big turbolasers, some launchers, extra armor, etc, fairly standard mix), Carriers (carry ungodly amounts of fighters and bombers), torpedo boats (carry ungodly amounts of torpedoes and have many speed launchers), and then you can also still just have transports.
Strengths are that they're cheap to build, you've got a bunch on hand, ready to convert and you're tooled up to build the ships already. And it was probably much easier to build these than full warships, and easier to avoid the notice of the Republic this way. Perhaps you could even build them with their equipment hidden, so that they're more or less indistinguishable from regular freighters.
Weaknesses are that they're not originally designed for fighting; they're not very manuverable, have low accelerations (they've got the engines, they just take a while to get to top speed), and once the shields are down (even with extra armor) they're probably not going to be as tough.
Strategy would probably be to keep one's distance and pound the sith out of them with fighters and torpedos, picking off whatever comes close (fighter or line ship) with the regular variety.



Sorry, if this didn't make sense or is really stupid, I'll probably notice tomorrow, and be really embarrassed redface .  

[Sol Walker]

xd Amigo, thats exactly what the trade federation did. they took their huge a** freighters and made warships out of them!
Granted they may be more than enough for pirate ships and such, but against a real battleship they would be in hot water.  

[HereticX]

Cale Darksun

xd Amigo, thats exactly what the trade federation did. they took their huge a** freighters and made warships out of them!
Granted they may be more than enough for pirate ships and such, but against a real battleship they would be in hot water.

Is it? Those didn't really look like they'd ever been freighters.

But, I'd think this could work, if done right (and I'd like to think, if it could be done right, Chidee would figure it out).
Stand off, long out of blaster range, and then let your A)large number of superior fighters and B)Overwhelming scads of torpedoes fight the enemy.


So, what are the flaws?  

[Sol Walker]

Aside from the fact that no one would be suprised if you did it? Freighters are not designed for the rigors of deep space combat. but if you want a true freighter to battle ship conversion, look up the Bulk Cruiser.  

[HereticX]

Surprise? I'm not sure I get that one. Well, that's good for the first few times, but even then, it's not to be relied upon.

As for the rigors of combat, they've been overhauled and buffed up. They've got very strong shields (since they basically have more room than they know what to do with, especially since a lot of the ship is droid-run). That might not do everything, but it's supposed to be enough.

And the idea is to keep them pretty far away from the actual combat.
Like, the carriers have little more than various (admittedly, quite a lot of) point defenses to keep missles and fighters off of them, but their primary weaponry is the aforementioned "Ungodly amounts of fighters", probably more than any other ship. Same goes for the torpedo ships, only they carry ungodly amounts of torpedoes (with launchers).
All the other ships, they're built to be as tough as possible, and they, along with whatever warships are available, keep the capital ships at a distance.
If they can pull that off right, their weakness doesn't matter.