What, if any ST ship designs could the Empire use?

[Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot]

Are there any ST ship designs that could be adapted by the EMpire to be of any use?

I'm asking out of curiousity.

[darthdavid]

Well, judging by the stablility of warp cores they could turn basically any ship into a flying bomb with less yeild than a turbo laser DOH!

[Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot]

Well, judging by the stablility of warp cores they could turn basically any ship into a flying bomb with less yeild than a turbo laser DOH!

Adapted as in retrofitted with better, not to mention safer systems.

[Striderteen]

If you could retrofit an Intrepid class starship with hyperdrive, it would make a pretty nice luxury yacht with enough defensive armament to fight off all the best-equipped pirate groups.

Other than that, I dunno.

[Striderteen]

Ooops, typo. I meant to say "all but the most well-equipped pirate groups".

[Micheal Ryans, Beta pilot]

If you could retrofit an Intrepid class starship with hyperdrive, it would make a pretty nice luxury yacht with enough defensive armament to fight off all the best-equipped pirate groups.

Other than that, I dunno.

That is a good idea.

[Cpt_Frank]

If you could retrofit an Intrepid class starship with hyperdrive, it would make a pretty nice luxury yacht with enough defensive armament to fight off all the best-equipped pirate groups.

Other than that, I dunno.

That is a good idea.

Best equipped ST pirates. A SW corvette or something heavier would probably trash it.

[Sea Skimmer]

They'd only be of use if the invading force is small and has no access to the resources of the SW galaxy. Otherwise they're not worth refitting or operating. A few transport loads of sublight system patrol craft could handle all needed policing duties.

[Rob Wilson]

Are there any ST ship designs that could be adapted by the EMpire to be of any use?

I'm asking out of curiousity.

I can't think of any reason why they'd want to. A Covette is smaller, faster, better armed, better armoured/shielded and already available in numbers without refitting or re-training of crews on alien equipment.

This is like asking "Are there any 17th century warship designs that could be adapted by Nato to be of any use?"

[Jawawithagun]

a romulan D'derix (sp?) retrofitted to a private pleasure yacht ... it has a nice enough look to appeal to some

[darthdavid]

Well, they could mount a hypermatter reactor and a few ltls and make most feddie ships nice system patrol craft.

[Ender]

They could all make for god anti smuggeling/customs ships, and with a few refits to the heavier ships like the Sovereign you could get a better ship then the lancer.

[darthdavid]

Or you could strip them down and use anything remotley usefull (torp launchers, phasers, computers, replicators etc) to beef up your ships and gain one or two technical insights.

[paladin]

Are there any ST ship designs that could be adapted by the EMpire to be of any use?

I'm asking out of curiousity.

All of them. The Imperial Navy always needs targets for training its gunners and pilots.

[Solauren]

Sure, they can use all the designs.

After all, a World Devestator isn't picky about what it transforms...

Now then, seriously...

If I was the Empire, and I just conquered the Federation and it's neighbours, and I captured ships reasonably intact, I could see retrofitting them with Imperial weapons and technology, and using them for system patrol craft.

Why?

The natives are used to them. The look out there window, see an Interpid on patrol, shrug, and go back to there daily lives.

And imagine the reaction of some native pirates seeing a Intripid class, decloaking there old surpluss Klingon birds of prey, then having 20 Turblolasers extend out of the saucer section and firing...

[Wicked Pilot]

Are there any ST ship designs that could be adapted by the EMpire to be of any use?

I'm sure most ST ships will find use by the Empire as target drones.

[Striderteen]

If you could retrofit an Intrepid class starship with hyperdrive, it would make a pretty nice luxury yacht with enough defensive armament to fight off all the best-equipped pirate groups.

Other than that, I dunno.

That is a good idea.

Best equipped ST pirates. A SW corvette or something heavier would probably trash it.

Yes, but few pirates have ships that powerful; the majority of pirate ships are hot-rodded freighters with beefed-up armament, and those wouldn't pose much of a threat to an Intrepid. An upgunned Corvette could beat it, but most pirates would probably leave it alone anyway; it's bad business to go after something that's heavily armed enough to put up a decent fight.

[Rob Wilson]

Or you could strip them down and use anything remotley usefull (torp launchers, phasers, computers, replicators etc) to beef up your ships and gain one or two technical insights.

All of the weapons are inferior to the weapons on a fighter, so how that beefs anything up is beyond me. As to the technical insight, who needs to be shown how to badly build technology?

[Rob Wilson]

If I was the Empire, and I just conquered the Federation and it's neighbours, and I captured ships reasonably intact, I could see retrofitting them with Imperial weapons and technology, and using them for system patrol craft.

Why?

The natives are used to them. The look out there window, see an Interpid on patrol, shrug, and go back to there daily lives.

And imagine the reaction of some native pirates seeing a Intripid class, decloaking there old surpluss Klingon birds of prey, then having 20 Turblolasers extend out of the saucer section and firing...

Probably laughter as the recol tears the saucer section apart. If you want a patrol ship, both the Corvette and it's sister ship the Gunship are faster, more powerful and you have trained crews proficient in their use.

To make them usable you'd need to totally rebuild them, and what's the point? Who cares if the natives are used to seeing Fed/Rom/Klingon ships, they just had a recent memory of those same ships getting beaten. Would you want an inferior vessel protecting your area of space? Or would you prefer the best available?

At best they would be used for target drones, or scrapped and the materials put to better use.

[Darth Fanboy]

Assuming Im being forced too

I'd say A defiant class as a sort of system patrol craft, nothing that can take on the tougher capital ships but they might be able to challenge some of the more powerful smuggler craft or fighters. Assuming it was fitted with SW tech of course.

[Eleas]

Are there any ST ship designs that could be adapted by the EMpire to be of any use?

I'm asking out of curiousity.

The Nebula. It's compact and customizable to a higher degree than its brethren.

[Patrick Ogaard]

Mass-produced runabouts as cheap, in-system equivalents of the spacegoing family car or mobile home? With their warp drives they could even be used to visit nearby star systems, albeit slowly compared to a hyperdrive.

[Patrick Ogaard]

Another interesting option would be to mass produce shuttlecraft and sell them cheaply in the Empire as the Federation's equivalent of exporting Yugos to the US (AKA: Palpatine's Galactic Empire). Just think of a Star Wars bulk freighter filled to the gills with countless thousands of shuttlecraft. The swoopy Voyager shuttlecraft with their raked nacelles would appeal to the poor, young and stupid. The type 6 and similar passenger/cargo designs would make decent in-system pizza delivery vans, cheap rental vans, Jawa-operated interplanetary taxis, etc. Shuttlepods could serve as two-seat subcompacts for congested systems or affordable local transportation for the truly destitute.

[NecronLord]

A D'deridex would make a nice pleasure yacht. If it were refitted with an imperial grade cloaking device it would be even better.

Procedure: Scrap deathtrap of a power core. Replace with a moderate Imperial power core, such as that on the millenium falcon.

Install more holodecks. (very cheap, due to the fact that you have the production facilities and don't have to buy them from contractors) unobrusively into that big hole. (but keep the nice astetic)

Fit with millenium falcon style concussion missile launchers. Lots of them.(optional)
Fit with imperial sheilds (al la the falcon)(optional)

Give it a mediocre hyperdrive.

Give it a droid crew.
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A nice rich guys yacht that can do useful things (transporters will come in handy, as will the holodecks) for the same cost as the falcon. (though you could sell it off for more, though I'd imagine they'd go to corprate backers and major loyal imperial supporters, Palpy's friends in other words, one of his various gifts, Xizor would get one (sure he's got better stuff, but he does go around in civillian ships, to look less like the head of the Black Sun.)

Some major hutts could have them also.

[Rob Wilson]

Another interesting option would be to mass produce shuttlecraft and sell them cheaply in the Empire as the Federation's equivalent of exporting Yugos to the US (AKA: Palpatine's Galactic Empire). Just think of a Star Wars bulk freighter filled to the gills with countless thousands of shuttlecraft. The swoopy Voyager shuttlecraft with their raked nacelles would appeal to the poor, young and stupid. The type 6 and similar passenger/cargo designs would make decent in-system pizza delivery vans, cheap rental vans, Jawa-operated interplanetary taxis, etc. Shuttlepods could serve as two-seat subcompacts for congested systems or affordable local transportation for the truly destitute.

Far too slow, and their propulsion damages the fabric of Space-time (that's if you go with Warp-capable shuttlecraft). You wouldn't be able to give them away. In a Galaxy where people are used to flying with joysticks, the push-button flight method of a ST vessel would drive them mad.