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Modelling after this. Fast nimble scout with a penchant for short ranged fast firing weapons. Still WIP. Saving progress.
The corsair is designed as a pirate ship by the empire to combat it's enemies during war. It was designed to help disrupt trade in enemy territory and specifically designed to follow and hunt cargo vessels while acting as a potential intermediate assault ship during fleet activities.
This ship could be unranked like the eagle to make it more unique. Or have a special rank access fitting of it's pirating intent.
This could also be a triple set of imperial ships like the other factions have. Maybe with different weapons layouts. Or instead of 3 ships maybe there are only two variants. The LLL(9) and LMMS(8) version or something. layouts that don't override the other smaller ships.
One of my hopes is that this ships manoeuvrability would allow it to reproduce real world ship vs ship tactics and manoeuvres.
Stats:
Cost: 10,819,697
Hull: 135t
Landing Pad: M
Base Heat: 267 or 270
Top Speed: 320; As low as 270?
Boost Speed: 380 or 400 <- 380 should be the same as the clipper(max speed). Not sure if it's ok to go over that. 400 is if it should go over that. I could be wrong though. 400 may make normal usage nearer the clippers boost speed.
Minimum Thrust: 50%
Top Speed: 280; Or: 300@45%
Boost Speed: 380
Mininum Thrust: 72% (or 64.312896405919661734% or 67.5%)
Boost Cost: 10 or 12mw?
Armor Hardness: 56?
Base hull: 150
Base Shield: 270 or 160 or 135 or 230?
Fuel Reserve: 0.69t or 0.46t or 0.5t
Pitch: 40
Yaw: 15
Roll: 80
or:
Pitch: 35
Yaw: 30
Roll: 70
or:
Pitch: 42
Yaw: 21
Roll: 72
Crew: 1 or 2(Would this benefit from a pip or crew?)
MLF: 9?
Core Internals: (original ideas)
Armor: 1
PP: 3-7 (5)
Thrusters: 4-6 (5)
FSD: 4-5 (4)
Life Support: 1-5 (1)
PD: 3-7 (5)
Sensors: 2-6 (2)
Fuel: 3-5 (3 or 4)
Up to date stats:
| Name | PP | Thrusters | FSD | Life Support | PD | Sensors | Total | Fuel | Mass |
| iCutter | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 44 | 6 | 1100 |
| iClipper | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 4 | 400 |
| iCorsair | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 3 or 4 | 135 |
| iCourier | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 35 |
| iEagle | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 50 |
iCutter: 8+8+7+7+7+7=44
iClipper: 6+6+5+5+6+5=33
iCorsair: 5+4+4+2+4+3=22
iCourier: 4+3+3+1+3+2=16
iEagle: 3+3+3+1+2+2=14
Optional Internals: (72)
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
Hardpoints: (9) All Efficient APA's!?(orginally 3xL)
L
L
L
Or: (8)
L
L
M
Or: (8)
L
M
M
S
(S)(9)
Or: (8)
M
M
M
M
Or: (9)
L
M
M
M
Or: (8)
M
M
S
S
S
S
Utility: 2-3-4-6 (4 or 6) <- Has to be 4 or a bigger PP is needed.
| Name | Small=1 | Medium=2 | Large=3 | Huge=4 | Total | Utility |
| iEagle | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||
| iCourier | 3 | 6 | 4 | |||
| iCorsiar? | 3 | 8 or 9 | 4 or 6? | |||
| iClipper | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | ||
| iCutter | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 |
There could also be several versions. A large version with 3xL hardpoints and a medium version with 4xM hardpoints. They could have slightly different stats if needed. No idea what they would be. Maybe the large version has a size 3 fuel tank where the medium has a size 4 fuel tank or similar. Although I assume you could simply put on a size 3 missile weapon to deal with things like small ship modules. And anything small enough to matter cand possibly be quickly hatch breaked.
iCorsair 3xL Combat Pirate <- Some items like the armor represent two items and have double stats where possible. Also set to speed 270 with boost 400. Hull is also accurate while shield is not. I estimate around 250-300 shields with a 2A Prismatic and those boosters.
iCorsair 3xL combat Pirate 2 <- A more aggressive build. Still haven't figured out shields. It's probably near the same EHP as the armor.
Make it look as much like an Imperial vulture as possible potentially:
I like the one on the bottom left hand corner. Although they are all interesting. Make it as close to the SC corsair maybe?! the right side ones look a bit like the vulture. Maybe a joke about the ship being modelled after something as ugly as the vulture?! At least from gutamaya standards.
Actually the Vulture and Corsair look very similar.
Original Corsair also looks very imperial to start with: (And oddly zerg... which would be a fantastic pirate ship!)
Maybe take the middle rear of the Carrack and add the engines to the back like the SC corsair and make forward wings like the SC corsair and make it look like the vulture/courier after that. 8) It could be a shrunken down and slightly thinned out cutter body with wings like the corsair. Make it look organic combined with wood/bone/sales/wings.
Possibly dimentions: (double iEagle)
Height: 14.2m
Length: 62.4m
Width: 69.4
The wing tips would be like the eagle but would be more centered as to allow focusing with fixed weapons. With two of the large weapons.
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