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Even with your gamble with Benny paying off you ended up having to go into debt, and to financial institutions affiliated with the Solar Union no less.
>You have taken out a loan for 753k Solar Credits at 10% interest.
>Phase 2 Construction Costs: Lost 10kT CM, 10kT RM, 1kT EM
With phase 2 complete it was time for the installation of the weapon systems, sensors and a whole manner of other little things. Shortly after phase 3 began Tim, your CTO came to you with a problem.
“Jack, I’ve been reviewing the schematics for Sovereign. Based on the specs of the primary laser turret and the way its wired to the main reactor, the weapon is going to be prone to overheating.”
“Stuff like that is a chronic problem with energy weapons. No design is perfect.”
“This isn’t a minor problem. If we keep to the current design the laser turret will only be able to fire a handful of shots in battle before the heat build-up reaches dangerous levels along the main power conduit in the spine. You know what else is along the ship’s spine? The missile launchers. Unless the captain uses the laser <span class="mu-i">sparingly</span> there’s a very real chance the magazine for the missiles will cook off and destroy the whole ship. This is a potentially <span class="mu-s">fatal flaw</span>.”
“What can we do about it?”
“We’ll need to mount an array of heat sinks along the spine. This will solve the problem, but they’ll replace the capital class missile launchers.”
“That will lower the overall firepower, can we find somewhere else to put the missiles?”
“We could replace most of the medium kinetic battery in the rear with a VLS. This would reduce the ship’s effectiveness against frigate class vessels at medium to close range. We’d be going all in on the long range specialisation.”
“If the problem is the laser why not just replace it with something easier to work with like another capital class VLS?”
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