(08-18-2018, 02:58 PM)DigitalDeath Wrote: (03-28-2018, 01:19 AM)Karelian Suomi Wrote: ...(Lots of ship lists)
If I remember it right, the Butcherbird was the original imperial Cossack, that didn't go KAPOWW! quite as easy. But the ship did not make it into DryDock 2, as far as I recall.
The other ships sound quite new. Do you care to give us some information on them?
To answer your question, the ships you list currently exist only on paper in an unpublished manuscript. The Butcherbird is in fact the original form of the ship the Luches copied and produced with much lower production QC standards. It is the same ship from a practical standpoint, but with less ammunition and a stable reactor, so it actually has less potential staying power than the Cossack, but theoretically at least a greater degree of survivability.
The Myrskii (Karelian, lit. Storm/blizzard) is an indigenous Karelian Republic SPAC superiority fighter design. The Meteor is also of the same origins, but a gunboat designed with a rather antiquated design style to take advantage of local geographic conditions and operational needs.
The Aurora Hawk is as old as the Cossack/Butcherbird and the Devastator. It's quite literally a flying Railrepeater cannon, but like the Devastator and other such ancient designs, hobbled by mediocre performance by modern standards and its reliance upon depletable munitions weapon systems. Like its contemporaries the Aurora Hawk is the purview of distant, poor former Imperial worlds and colonies, space pirates, and mercenaries unable to procure more modern armaments.
The Testudo is a warhound design dating back to the PreImperial Era, a floating fossil that by 16AL is a rare but still recognizable sight in Terran Space especially out on the Frontier and here and there in The Backnet. It is the purview of Houses minor such as the Karelian Republic, used out of necessity rather than by choice.
The Vainanomen is one of two sister ships, unique warhound class warships built by the Karelian Republic just in time for the events covered in the unpublished Karelian War. This is a conflict between the Karelians and a more powerful neighboring House that in the aftermath of the Grub War decided to expand their territory at Karelian expense. The Vainanomen and her sister ship Ilmarinen are 10K ton destroyer sized vessels but designed from the bottom up to punch above their weight (and punch very hard at that). They came as a rude surprise to the Karelian Republic's tormentors, and play a key roll in the planned mini campaign to be included in the eventual finished publication.
The Puma, Gila Monster, and Huitzilopachtli are all indigenous Loma Verde designs. All are essentially evolutionary developments of the Chupacabra, as the Loma Verdecanos capitalized on the success of the "Chuppy" to build successively larger craft. The Puma is a 300 SPAC, essentially a larger, more heavily armed Chupacabra.
The Gila Monster is a gunboat design, and like its namesake has a "poisonous bite," while the Huitzilopochtli is a fast corvette sized warhound designed for local defense and limited long-range operations. Both are a long way away from seeing the light of day, as we are engaged right now in the 3rd ed. project and other mischief.
Hope this answers your questions!
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