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Date: Friday, 13 Aug 2010, 2:16 PM | Message # 1

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Designation: Serpentine-class Freighter

Hull Type: Fast freighter
Ship Class: Light
Length: 70 meters
Armor: Cerametal
Powerplant: 1x Tachyonic collider
Engines: 4x Induction engines
FTL Drive: Hyperdrive Class I
Support Systems & Crew Quarters:

Autosupport unit
Crew quarters

Weapons:

2x Dual particle beam cannons (turret mounted; 1x port amidships, 1x starboard amidships)

Defenses:

Damage control
Jammer
Particle/ray shield

Command & Control Systems:

Fire control
Nav control
Radio transceiver
Mass transceiver

Sensors:

Hi-res video
Multiphase radar

Miscellaneous Installations:

4x Cargo hold
4x Autocargo

Information: Need a fast ship for those quick cargo runs? Standard cargo vessels too expensive? Need armament to keep the pirates off your back? The new and improved Serpentine-class freighter is fast, maneuverable and able to carry small and medium cargo loads where and when you need them with no worries on hiring an escort. No pirate would be stupid enough to attack a convoy of these!

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Jace_Varitek

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 9:28 PM | Message # 2

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The ship seems abundantly reasonable, and I vote to APPROVE. Although I'm not familiar with a "mass transceiver." From the name, it kind of sounds like a teleportation device although I assume this isn't the case.

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Ravak-and-Larben

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 9:32 PM | Message # 3

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Nah, it's just a specialized communications device. It can transmit in an entire system instantaneously with none of the lag associated with FTL limitations. I'd guess the range around 1,000 AU, so it's not an interstellar comm device. The downside is that the receiving vessel must also have the same system to be able to receive communications from it. It's primarily meant for buyers of Ravak & Larben products. Sort of a nifty incentive.

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OrionKarath

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 10:45 PM | Message # 4

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I'm still resistent to the random tech that has never been developed, and find myself increasingly curious what the hell your inspiration for such is, but this isn't a pocket Star Dreadnaught so...I APPROVE as well.

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Ravak-and-Larben

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 10:47 PM | Message # 5

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Odd as it may sound, but building ships is an art to me. It's one of my largest joys in RP. I could care less if other people use them or I do, though I prefer others to use them. I could show you a design for a ship I made for a guy in a space battle RP. It'd make your head spin. Inspiration comes from far too many years of watching scifi shows and trying to meld things together. It also helps I enjoy science.

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OrionKarath

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 10:58 PM | Message # 6

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I enjoy making designs myself. Too bad you weren't around back in AGD, or you would have seen my best work, that's been used anyways. The Kor Vella that I had for Corellia was to be a tribute to some of those designs, but that was screwed to hell. The pocket Star Dreadnaught jab is merely a joke. My main issue with your ship designs is that it includes all this new tech, which isn't detailed. I do appreciate new tech, believe me...and I also went overboard in my beginings of RP after getting off the AOL forums and coming over to MSN back in the days of SJN (Jace, remember the monster Terror-class Super Star Destroyer?). The problem with not explaining or detailing new tech, is it doesn't have an established limit or capability, and it isn't easily referenced. A player couldn't get onto Wookiepedia and find out what induction engines are or, to reference a previous request, what quantum weaponry is. Thus it provides confusion, and the ability of the creator to pull things out of thin air on someone, not that I'm implying you would go overboard with that, I've seen it done before.

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Ravak-and-Larben

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 11:02 PM | Message # 7

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You do have a point... I'll have to compile a list and information as to what unusual stuff Ravak & Larben utilize and what it does and then post it here on the site somewhere as a reference. As to why it is different, I could only say that alien technology that didn't evolve along normal paths due to their secluded nature took on aspects that were more useful to them.

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OrionKarath

Date: Sunday, 15 Aug 2010, 11:15 PM | Message # 8

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Alien technology is fine. I support the why to the new tech. All I ask is for a list of this technology, how it works, and what it does. I would say post is on the OOC Forum, but perhaps the Request Forum would be best.

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Jace_Varitek

Date: Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010, 12:05 PM | Message # 9

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So, this request is APPROVED. I think.