"With each passing generation the wilds seem to become slightly tamer, the dark spaces between stars lose their song and fall mute beneath the thrum of passing commerce and freeports that hung undisturbed for years crawled with passengers roaming between suddenly near ports of call. With discovered resources that fueled their way of life suddenly contested between parties that could not be challenged and individuals who sought the solitude away from the drum of daily life finding themselves hosts to throngs moves were made to redouble the effort of expanding.
The Corvo was crafted to meet the needs of a relatively economic deep space faring vessel, designed to voyage under conventional drives to remote stars to see what might be seen. With an emphasis on interior comfort and reliability, these vessels are designed to sustain themselves for decades. Originally built by Zoners for Zoners, due to the rapidly increasing demand for this vessel by outsider parties, the blueprints for this ship finally found its way to open-market and has since been utilized by many enthusiasts of deep space exploration and research, in every corner of the colonies.
Class: Gunboat
Cargo: 1,200
Hull: 200,000
No cruise disruptor
5x Gunboat turrets
Cruiser shield mount
Capable of using all grades of Survey Modules
* Model, size and agility unchanged
(shield) Model, Size AND agility????? Yet downgrade in class of weapons and chopped three turrets off............. Cruiser statistics and handling yet average gunboat setup for weaponry (intended for research i know but if your gonna make it look and feel like a cruiser then shouldn't it be a cruiser? in saying that i'm not against the gunboat idea but at least make it look like and act like one)....that seems a little underpowered to me. Why not just pull everything into the gunboat line while keeping it's survey capabilities for research purposes etc
EDIT: Now that I think on this more I guess the sizing and agility would be more to do with "laboratory space and research facility areas" oh well just my thoughts anyways, just semi-recently bought one of these so keeping an eye on what they are doing with it.
+1.........5 gunboat turrets now have to defend the same square footage as
8 cruiser turrets once did....should have kept it 8 gunboat turrets maybe?
I'm looking for a new base of operations I can feel safe in..the old corvo or
the new barge would be perfect....I just want to be able to protect myself,
not start a war....
