Two things have got me thinking on what I would like to see from a deep space exploration ship. That being fleet carrier and this video on US Hospital Ships.
So my thinking is that a deep space exploration is not something being done by that many people so no manufacturers are not going to be making a ship just for making a ship just for deep space exploration just as today we don't have a ship just for exploration. So we need to make one by taking an old maybe obsolete ship and engineering in to an deep space exploration.
How would you do this
The ship
With this ship you could stay in the black for a long time only needed to go back to sell universal cartographics and pick up more materials if you don’t what to mine them.
PS
Can we get a better way of selling universal cartographics. I appreciate that dumping 100s or 1000a of systems of cartographics in one go is not good for the servers maybe some way to automate the process so that it can happen in the background when you are docked over some time.
So my thinking is that a deep space exploration is not something being done by that many people so no manufacturers are not going to be making a ship just for making a ship just for deep space exploration just as today we don't have a ship just for exploration. So we need to make one by taking an old maybe obsolete ship and engineering in to an deep space exploration.
How would you do this
- You would need to get enough reputation with engineers to unlock a missions to salvage a ship to use as your starting point. Then get the materials needed so that you completely refit and modify it to your deep space exploration ship.
The ship
- Should be a slow and not very maneuverable will need some skill to fly.
- Some defensive weapons.
- No or very limited offensive weapons.
- Can dock up to 4 ships one being large.
- A repair ship yard (providing you have the materials needed) and outfitting for parts you have in storage on the ship.
- Can repair all parts of the deep space exploration ship providing you have a docked ship that you can fall back to when the ship is repaired.
- Some way to store universal cartographics so even if you lose you ship you can go back and pick them up ie salvage.
- Fuel scooping should be a problem as the ship runs hot maybe some way to use one of the docked ship to go a fuel scoop and bring it back.
With this ship you could stay in the black for a long time only needed to go back to sell universal cartographics and pick up more materials if you don’t what to mine them.
PS
Can we get a better way of selling universal cartographics. I appreciate that dumping 100s or 1000a of systems of cartographics in one go is not good for the servers maybe some way to automate the process so that it can happen in the background when you are docked over some time.