posted on March 20th, 2004, 5:44 pm
just had another idea, jump gates, again like in B5. They would construct large unarmed weak hulled ships, they must build a station on the other side before any other ships can use the jump gate. As for avatars, I can think of 2 factions
Coriak: This faction beleives in the old ways, the old time, highly hostile, they rely more on organic technology, and thus build a more organic tree, though less advanced and less powerful than their oposing faction, they have an extremely high build rate and can construct "the Leviathan" A ship that takes ten credits, a massive almost B5 shadow like craft. Capable of using the theyleron weapon (what? I like theyleron stuff, no one in the universe is supposed to be able to come up with this stuff besides a bunch of reman rebells) a massive beam that destroys the crew of a vessel, and then beams crew aboard to take controle of the vessel, along with an arsenal of fighters that it can build, it is the ultimate ship. While building or firing the beam, sheilds are down, cloak is disabled, and the ship becomes imobile. The hull is week about 300 strong, the shields when up however are around 500. The special fighters are not equiped with cloak, however they fire heavy (slow and easy to dodge, yet cause heavy 50 damage each) graviton based torpedoes (no beam weapons) at their enemies. The fighters can be killed in 1 hit yet are constructed in 4 seconds. They also use the crew from the leviathan, this faction's large vessels lack wormhole generation with the exception of the experimental demor class. The wormhole lasts for 20 seconds and their is a 40% chance of collapse, so there will be a 40/60 thing wether vessels traveling inside with be destroyed mid way or not
Mehalden: A new faction that is rising, though smaller, their ships are more advanced and heavily armed, they are looking to a way of peace, yet are haulted by the majority of the empire which wishes for nothing but death. Trained heavily in melee weapon combat, their boarding parties are extremely strong. They have 2 special ships, both taking 5 credits to build. The first being the temporal nebula generator, the second being "the ONE" a large craft bigger then a cube capable of assimilating tech, going back to a large shipyard and having that shipyard being able to build the assimilated craft.
