What Starship would you want to 'really' have?

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-04-06 09:34am

Definitely a world devastator in reality, any other sci-fi universe or the later eras of the Wars universe. More or less fully automated, can build anything else you want and basically kick-starts any campaign of conquest. OTOH a rouge world devastator would get blown to bits by the Empire or the Old Republic as soon as they heard about it.

In those settings, or maybe if I'm feeling less megalomanical than usual I'd be choosing between the J-Type 327 (Naboo royal ship from Episode I) - great sublight and FTL speed, about the right size, luxurious, decent shields, highly automated, looks really cool - and Palpatine's personal Lambda class, which had awesome shields and weapons for its size as well as a handy cloaking device, luxurious fittings and the general coolness of the Lambda class. I suppose ideally I'd use the later to help me steal one of the former, then use parts from the Lambda to upgrade the J-Type (which is designed to be modular and easy to service) with a cloak and decent weapons. Though that would take a visit to a no-questions-asked shipyard (such as the one from 'Han Solo at Star's End') and a fair amount of credits, if it's possible at all.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2007-04-06 01:48pm

CaptHawkeye wrote:
Karmic Knight wrote:A TradeFed Droid Control Ship. Cargo Capacity, for shipping. Decent Armment. Idiot droid crew, but tech can be upgraded.
Crew yeah, but suppose that fucker breaks down somewhere in the system of nowheresville? How are you going pay for repairs? Not to mention long term costs like fuel and ammo? I don't even want to imagine hangar and parking fees. Sorry, but I don't think raiding random convoys could support this thing.

You could threaten planetary bombardments of developed worlds and hold them hostage, but that's also a great way to get the Empire on your ass. The more people you threaten and steal from, the more people in the galaxy will want your ass on a platter.

Bear in mind your droid crew may not need food or paychecks, but it still needs maintenance, replacement parts, batteries/fuel sources.

I think he means using it for its original purpouse, namely, mass-transport of goods. At which they can definately make a profit, and they only require a small crew. The De-militrised version of that would probably be quite a neat cargo ship.

Annatar Giftbringer · Post by **Annatar Giftbringer** » 2007-04-06 01:53pm

I've always liked the Ghtroc 720 series. Small enough to be manageable for 1-2 persons, so I could start out alone, or possibly hire a co-pilot given time. It can also carry a bit more cargo than the famous YT-1300, and has room for a couple of passengers.

Would be perfect to earn my living as cargo courier, taking a mix of larger cargo and smaller packages, while also having room for a couple of passengers that can give a small boost to the money earned, while also offering some company.

It's also easy to repair and keep in good shape.

Either that, or the Corellian Barloz class. Slightly larger than the Ghtroc, but basically used for the same kind of work.

Both could be equipped with additional weaponry should the need arise.

CaptHawkeye · Post by **CaptHawkeye** » 2007-04-06 02:58pm

NecronLord wrote:
CaptHawkeye wrote:
Karmic Knight wrote:A TradeFed Droid Control Ship. Cargo Capacity, for shipping. Decent Armment. Idiot droid crew, but tech can be upgraded.
Crew yeah, but suppose that fucker breaks down somewhere in the system of nowheresville? How are you going pay for repairs? Not to mention long term costs like fuel and ammo? I don't even want to imagine hangar and parking fees. Sorry, but I don't think raiding random convoys could support this thing.

You could threaten planetary bombardments of developed worlds and hold them hostage, but that's also a great way to get the Empire on your ass. The more people you threaten and steal from, the more people in the galaxy will want your ass on a platter.

Bear in mind your droid crew may not need food or paychecks, but it still needs maintenance, replacement parts, batteries/fuel sources.
I think he means using it for its original purpouse, namely, mass-transport of goods. At which they can definately make a profit, and they only require a small crew. The De-militrised version of that would probably be quite a neat cargo ship.

I believed since he said "Droid Control Ship" he was talking about the standard TradeFed model. Since he also mentioned the armament.

Cargo wise its nice, but still, it isn't very fast. Since we're talking about a de-militarized version here, it's going to have lots of problems with pirate attacks. A civilian TradeFed ship can neither run, nor fight.

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » 2007-04-06 02:59pm

The Trade Federation freighter idea sounds like the best to me. Take a non-militarised standard TF donut ship with a droid crew and you could probably run the whole thing yourself if you knew what you were doing (droids do maintenance etc, thers droids to do maintenance on those droids... etc - all you'd need would be enough supplies and equipment). Then that's a helluva lot of cargo you can hall, with some nifty defenses etc along with it.

Karmic Knight · Post by **Karmic Knight** » 2007-04-06 03:02pm

I said DCS only so I Know I remembered the Central Driod Computer.
I would use it to ship cargo with easily accesible crew that don't need to be hunted down and convinced.

Droids will listen to an idea no matter how stupid. That was my idea.

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2007-04-06 03:24pm

NecronLord wrote:I think he means using it for its original purpouse, namely, mass-transport of goods. At which they can definately make a profit, and they only require a small crew. The De-militrised version of that would probably be quite a neat cargo ship.

Definitely, since IIRC Trade Federation warships are militarized cargo ships.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2007-04-06 03:37pm

Lazarus wrote:The Trade Federation freighter idea sounds like the best to me. Take a non-militarised standard TF donut ship with a droid crew and you could probably run the whole thing yourself if you knew what you were doing (droids do maintenance etc, thers droids to do maintenance on those droids... etc - all you'd need would be enough supplies and equipment). Then that's a helluva lot of cargo you can hall, with some nifty defenses etc along with it.

Yah. As I recall, they have a neimodian crew of about sixty, but it seems, given the facilities shown in the AotC ICS, that some of those are negotiatiors, accountants and such, rather than an actual crew, which means that as long as you're working, you can probably afford to pay them and they won't complain.

That said, you might need to be cyborged into it.

Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2007-04-06 03:58pm

NecronLord wrote:Yah. As I recall, they have a neimodian crew of about sixty, but it seems, given the facilities shown in the AotC ICS, that some of those are negotiatiors, accountants and such, rather than an actual crew, which means that as long as you're working, you can probably afford to pay them and they won't complain.

That said, you might need to be cyborged into it.

100-360 living crew for the battleship
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lucrehul ... battleship

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-04-06 04:47pm

Starglider wrote:Definitely a world devastator in reality, any other sci-fi universe or the later eras of the Wars universe. More or less fully automated, can build anything else you want and basically kick-starts any campaign of conquest. OTOH a rouge world devastator would get blown to bits by the Empire or the Old Republic as soon as they heard about it.

Screw conquest! Think of yourself, with your world devastator, as the Star Wars equivalent of an oil rig! Go around wasted lifeless but resource rich worlds, like Mustafar, and consume the entire thing and sell it for scrap metal, hubcaps, or cheap folding aluminum chairs! Or visit space graveyards and consume all the wrecked hulks into even MORE cheap metal to sell to developing worlds! I mean, if they've got projects in Coruscant, or there's a growing metropolis world, they're gonna need lots of metal!

And if the space pirates try to piss on you, you EAT THEIR SHIP! Or build your own defensive robot fleet.

It'd be just like a Vogon Constructor Fleet!

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2007-04-06 06:40pm

I'd just take some 100 meter long corvete. Maybe one of those custom designs, with the luxuries that I've never had. Then I'd get all my friends together, and maybe we could run a passenger service.

Starglider · Post by **Starglider** » 2007-04-06 06:48pm

We saw a civilian version of the world devastator in canon: the 'resource collectors' used to turn asteroids into raw materials for building the darksaber. The prototypes were a bit buggy but they seemed to work ok after the initial accident.

If I knew I was going to get into space dogfights I would take the Soulless One. The stats on that thing are sick - it's the size of a Y-wing (or at least appears to be; the '6.71 metres' listed in the stats would make it the size of an A-wing) but it carries six laser cannon, proton bombs, a class 0.4 hyperdrive (yes, it's faster than the Falcon), excessive sublight drives and powerful ECM. Silliest of all it has an 'impervium hull, making the fighter impenetrable to all but the heaviest of enemy fire' (sounds like something from Marvel doesn't it). Canonwank to be sure, but it does look really cool.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2007-04-08 12:43pm

Honestly? As much as I love the YT 2000, I'd think about grabbing the civilian version of that Republic Cruiser (Corellian Corvette-lite) from TPM too.

CaptHawkeye · Post by **CaptHawkeye** » 2007-04-08 12:50pm

Knife wrote:Honestly? As much as I love the YT 2000, I'd think about grabbing the civilian version of that Republic Cruiser (Corellian Corvette-lite) from TPM too.

Good choice, according to the ICS, it doesn't need a lot of crew to be run. It doesn't have any weapons, but it couldn't be that hard to add them on. I'm not sure about running costs and maintenance.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2007-04-08 07:25pm

CaptHawkeye wrote:
Knife wrote:Honestly? As much as I love the YT 2000, I'd think about grabbing the civilian version of that Republic Cruiser (Corellian Corvette-lite) from TPM too.
Good choice, according to the ICS, it doesn't need a lot of crew to be run. It doesn't have any weapons, but it couldn't be that hard to add them on. I'm not sure about running costs and maintenance.

Yuppers. Besides, wouldn't be a pirate or nothing. Don't need weapons, tweak out some good shield power and engines to evade such things as pirates. Worse case senario, couple point defense blasters or something. ECM and ECCM preferably.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-04-08 07:29pm

CaptHawkeye wrote:
Knife wrote:Honestly? As much as I love the YT 2000, I'd think about grabbing the civilian version of that Republic Cruiser (Corellian Corvette-lite) from TPM too.
Good choice, according to the ICS, it doesn't need a lot of crew to be run. It doesn't have any weapons, but it couldn't be that hard to add them on. I'm not sure about running costs and maintenance.

In Labrynth of Evil Skwalker and Kenobi piloted an armed version so they do exist.

JediMaster415 · Post by **JediMaster415** » 2007-04-12 06:28pm

I think I would take a Barloz-class frieghter. It's different than normal.

Jericho Kross · Post by **Jericho Kross** » 2007-04-16 12:01am

An Executor class SSD. filled with T.I.E. Defenders and robots to do my bidding. The Outrider if I can't have the SSD.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2007-04-16 12:23am

Corellian Gunship.

Many because I piloted one in a SW MUSH Nit got me into, and did a LOT of damage to various ships with it.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2007-04-16 12:24am

De-militarized Acclamator transport, rebuilt into a luxury liner. A luxury liner who laughs at fusion warheads and can clock in at .6 lightspeed.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2007-04-16 01:23am

A tramp freighter like the Ebon Hawk, YT-2000, or the YT-1930 for me. With some "special" modifications of course.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-04-16 06:15am

IIRC there was a converted Corellian Corvette that rivaled the Errant Venture. Because it was a much smaller vessel than the EV it's be easier to maintain and a flying smugglers den sounds like fun and would be quite profitable. Why fly cargo all over the galaxy when the cargo can come to you.

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-04-16 07:25am

Lord Pounder wrote:IIRC there was a converted Corellian Corvette that rivaled the Errant Venture. Because it was a much smaller vessel than the EV it's be easier to maintain and a flying smugglers den sounds like fun and would be quite profitable. Why fly cargo all over the galaxy when the cargo can come to you.

It was also small enough that the owner could afford to paint it red, somehing which Booster could not.

And like Shroomy and Starglider, I'd relax in my World Devastator the Extremely Hungry Bastard and do trash disposal.

Lord_Sturm · Post by **Lord_Sturm** » 2007-05-05 08:11pm

I would pick the sun crusher I won't need anyone else to pilot it (though i can get a crew to help) and since only a black hole or pure anti-matter will be a threat and I can destroy a system by making the star go supernova I can rule like a tyrant by forcing people to give me all their money or I incinerate them with a super nova.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-05-05 09:16pm

First Point: Thread necromancy is a bad thing. Don't post in month-old threads.

Second point: The Sun Crusher only carried 11 torpedoes, IIRC. What do you do when you run out of torpedoes?