I liked the Asp in older games, but the current Lakon one doesn't feel 'cosy' enough for me, and I don't really like the go faster fins. I actually would have preferred a more simplified (and symmetrical) shape of the older games. Maybe I would like it more as a deLacy rather than Lakon.
No weapon mounts, it doesn't need them.
Rounded design, viewing windows 360° around the ship, not just the cockpit. May even a glass bottom!
Gimballed cockpit.
Surface scanner that can either do 360 or can focus for extreme range - requires huge power draw.
Sample collection, "fuel scoop" a body for sample collection. ie Verify if an Earth-like is actually inhabitable.
Cargo, dump slaves/criminals (or volunteers) on the surface of inhabitable planets.
Rounded design, viewing windows 360° around the ship, not just the cockpit. May even a glass bottom!
Gimballed cockpit.
Surface scanner that can either do 360 or can focus for extreme range - requires huge power draw.
Sample collection, "fuel scoop" a body for sample collection. ie Verify if an Earth-like is actually inhabitable.
Cargo, dump slaves/criminals (or volunteers) on the surface of inhabitable planets.
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Hahaha xD
Yeah I'd really like a dedicated explorer ship. One that has a cockpit that actually doesn't look like its materials have been degrading for decades like the lakon stuff.
I'd love a fairly huge ship that oozes the feel for exploration and for science.
Like laboratories, long observation decks visible from the outside, recognizable sensor arrays, stuff like this. Preferably in some sort of Clipper-Style interior wise.
I'd love a fairly huge ship that oozes the feel for exploration and for science.
Like laboratories, long observation decks visible from the outside, recognizable sensor arrays, stuff like this. Preferably in some sort of Clipper-Style interior wise.
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love the 'gimballed cockpit'!
I'm thinking something along the lines of the newer Cosmos series' Ship of the Imagination! Now that's style, my friends.
Wishlist:
Fission reactor (no need to scoop)
ADScanner
DSScanner
AEMRScanner (advanced electromagnetic radiation scanner to see accretion discs, gamma, x-rays, etc)
Discovery drones to shoot out to surface scan faaaaaaaaaar away bodies and return back near the sun to pick up later (better bookmark that system!)
voice comm message beacons for future explorers/settlers
it would be fun to have a lab onboard to analyze asteroid samples/stellar material/alien DNA!
I'm thinking something along the lines of the newer Cosmos series' Ship of the Imagination! Now that's style, my friends.
Wishlist:
Fission reactor (no need to scoop)
ADScanner
DSScanner
AEMRScanner (advanced electromagnetic radiation scanner to see accretion discs, gamma, x-rays, etc)
Discovery drones to shoot out to surface scan faaaaaaaaaar away bodies and return back near the sun to pick up later (better bookmark that system!)
voice comm message beacons for future explorers/settlers
it would be fun to have a lab onboard to analyze asteroid samples/stellar material/alien DNA!
+1 on all of these ideas, especially the gimballed cockpit
FFE had Military Class jump drives, like the ultra rare Class 4 Military could do 94 LY : http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Turner_Class
Maybe Frontier could do an Explorer/Quantum class drive, allowing the pilot to jump into 2 different systems simultaneously!
Maybe Frontier could do an Explorer/Quantum class drive, allowing the pilot to jump into 2 different systems simultaneously!
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Mind you that drive took a week to cover those 94 LY.