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The Pact Fleet didn’t need an incremental improvement and it didn’t need to restore past glory. No… what it needed was a corvette that carried an enormous torpedo like device tipped with a plasma cutter! After a day or two spent in the savant’s trance you present Project Hot Dog to a very skeptical Solei and Gale.
“Glasner, before I even comment on the practicality of the design, how are we even going to get this thing to the AO without an FTL drive?”
“That’s <span class="mu-i">Director</span> Glasner to you Solei and to answer your question: we will give it clamps that allow it to stick to our cruiser hulls, at least until a purpose built carrier is developed.”
Gale frowned at the ship representation on the holo display.
“Without carrier support, deployment will be very uncomfortable for the crew; they will be confined to the ship for the duration of the mission.”
“We can make it a drone craft.”
“That would require the parent ship to have a drone control system.”
“The existing Glory class cruisers can be jury rigged with such a system, either that or we can use the craft exclusively for short missions and develop options for long term deployment later.”
“All that aside, you’re proposing we build a corvette whose sole purpose is to carry an oversized torpedo. How is this better than the existing pike class frigates?”
“Pike Frigates are fragile and their torpedoes are easily shot down by point defence systems. The W13N-3R super heavy torpedo is far more durable. The corvette hull itself will also be heavily armoured. As a bonus: while still connected to the main hull the torpedo can act as a source of supplementary power and propulsion. After launch the overall mass of the craft will be reduced, allowing it to maintain the same level of maneuverability with just the thruster arrays, it can then continue combat in an anti-strikecraft role!”
Solei let out an exasperated sigh.
“This seems needlessly convoluted. I advise creating two different specialised craft or even just upgrading our standard torpedoes with this plasma cutter warhead.”
“And that is why you are only Sub-Director. I have already drawn up plans, begin prototyping immediately!”
How should we handle the deployment issues?
>Make it manned. (Easier to put into production, but can only be sent on short missions until a dedicated carrier is built.)
>Make it unmanned. (Will require a refit of at least one cruiser with a drone control system. It will take longer to get it to the frontline, but will not suffer the drawbacks of being manned.)
>Make a manned and unmanned model and perform comparative trials. (More likely to make a final product that will please Fleet Command, but will take even more precious time.)
>Also roll me 6d10s, one anon can roll em all or you can take turns idk.
