Pilfered from another thread:
Just some thoughts on equipping this beast. . .
6 double S4 weapons turrets, one unmanned at rear says they wanted 6 turrets but left the last unmanned to create the continuing specific weakness in every ship's defenses that we have seen before. In this case there is still a mighty turret faced backward but it will be less effective than the others, so don't let enemies get behind this ship either!
Each owner will delight in assigning their favorite weapons to these turrets. I have seen one vid where the commentator was saying how he would use them to engage other cap ships. He obviously did not understand what this ship is about. If you engage other cap ships with these 6 turrets, you will get your ass kicked. That's not what they're for. You can intimidate lesser ships with these turrets, or destroy them, or fend off fighters, but you cannot engage larger cap ships with these weapons. That is what the torpedoes are for.
Y'all know I love the Omni XII's and I can't see a better option for these 6 turrets. Things change and we'll see come the day it flies. That is certainly my placeholder though, and with that in mind then the question comes, what do you use the beasty dual S5 remote turret for? That's the real treat aboard this ship. There's one additional, extra-super-size gun placement that is fired from the bridge, were the command crew has instant, direct influence on targets. Surely this weapon placement needs to cope with situations the others cannot? So how would you use it, and thus equip it?
IMHO, it would be of great benefit if that chin gun could accomplish three things: Spray fire past the 4km limit of the Omni's, knock down incoming torpedoes, and provide cover fire on terrestrial actions where the Polaris may indeed be the ruling emperor. It looks like whether flying through atmo, or silently hovering over a troop of soldiers scurrying out to meet the insectoid hoards (otherwise known as BEM's for Bug Eyed Monsters) what one really wants here is a gatling of some sort. Something that can spray a blanket of many shots across a large area. Since we don't need to worry much on this ship about running out of ammo, it could be laser or ballistic, but ballistic has better range. So what S5 ballistic gattlings are there?
Em. . .no really? Really? You're joking. Stop playing. That can't be right. Look at the chart:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13LzkKzDOKIdrhwL5E2n2Co6THa74A2izxn8lykDuPAk/edit#gid=1241570521
The only S5 gatling does 240 dps? Look at these numbers. Everything but the BEHR M7A and Vanduul weapons has screwy numbers way too low for an S5 weapon. Could it be the Aegis Ballistic Repeater is supposed to do 1,240 dps? So that would be ~2,500 dps for the single turret? Sounds about right, especially given the shots are slow and spray around a bit.
In any case, a pair of S5 ballistic gatlings firing 800 rounds per minute total, might just shoot down an incoming torpedo, reach out past the range of the other standard weapons to ruin the day of pain -in-the-ass sniper fighters (with help from S3 missiles), and squash bugs on the surface like Decon was in town. Lets hope for decent S5 ballistic gatlings.
