osiris carrier

[Jinx]

@adamant fist:
the spikes are launch lights ( well, will be ) - each tube has two spikes - and i plan to place a few pulsating lights on each. - don t know if its possible to give them a timer - so that they are blinking one after another. - these things are barely visible in space - they are very thin and just hold the lightbulbs.

@Tenacity:
i d skin it with the osiris skin that appears a little darker than the liberty - but i haven t found that texture in the texture pack - might darken the skin myself or i ll browse some more though the texture folder. - i tried to apply different textures to the grey parts...but there is a very practical reason i had to use that one. - the resolution of the other textures is lower sometimes - the default grey is quite detailed ... and i was a bit too lazy to split the existing faces into multiple ones by cutting them up. - might tint them more bronze/darkish yellow and reapply the whole skin - thats quite easily done.

the concept would be:

a light carrier thats ( in RP ) able to deply a wing of fighters quickly and simultanously. the ship is bigger than the osiris - more due to the fact that the osiris is so small. all the modifications sacrificed armour though - a likely sacrifice that a ship that is not designed to fly at the frontline can make.
so i d suggest it to have something like

- 300.000 hitpoints base
- battlecruiser powersource
- cruiser shields
- 16 cruiser turrets with extremely limited firearcs ( its not meant to charge a target with all 16 guns blazing - so i d rather make the turrets have very distinct arcs - the advantage is, you can track and follow hostile fighters more easily, cause turrets on the other side of the ship don t need to fully turn in order to get the fighter into their line of sight ) so i m aiming for something like 6 turrets to the front, 4 turrets to the back, 8 turrets to the sides [ thats the fire arcs, not the number of actual turrets of course ]
- it could have a generous cargobay - cause its supposed to be bigger than the osiris.

sorry to those that were looking for a checkmate move, but i have to agree that the order wouldn t build another one but the osiris. - a light carrier with battlecruiser stats would do well though, i believe. it would more be a RP ship than a line breaker. - but nevertheless, it could mount a few light mortars and inflict heavy damage to pretty much everything. - there is nothing more efficient than something with an overlarge powersource and a weaponclass that needs only little energy.

such a ship could be used to backup far-away operations for the order - maybe [ if igiss considers it ] it could even have a good strafe / turn rate compared to other ships of a similar size.

anyway - i d see such a ship not to fly without fighters. - while the osiris can operate all alone, like some other battleships ( even in RP ) - a carrier should allways fly with fighters ( a carrier with fighters is big and fearsome..... a carrier without fighters is only big )

a big powersource enables such a ship to mount many antifighter weapons, too ( missile turrets ) - they aren t too great on a ship of that size, but when its defended by fighters, too - missiles can cause some trouble among the enemies.

*so, thats the concept of this ship. - something that cannot go one vs. one against a liberty carrier, that is classified as a battleship of course, - but something that can easily escape from it into an asteroid field.

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