+1 for the Expanse reference.
Oye, Beltalowda!
Oye, Beltalowda!
If I were a belter pirate leader sa sa ke?
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Shadow Reaper
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You should expect they will cost at least 10,000 times that much in beta. The 100 credits is a placer holder. They're really free right now.
The nature of exploration is such that hunting explorers will be problematic, unless you're filling your time with exploring yourself, and are merely an opportunistic explorer. If you're out there in the middle of the black, best you have something to do. Maybe you could create some sort of synthetic anomaly that appears from great range to be a wormhole in order to draw prey to you, but I would not count on it.
IMHO, if what you want is to hunt big game, you should take a Polaris after drillers and such. The Vanduul all deserve to die. There. i said it.
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not "scientific" or even theory craft worthy idea from me, just my imagination. I have no idea how tough a carrack's defenses really are and nor do I care.
I'd assemble a large piece of "interest" , bait, out of junked crafts for the carrack to "explore" in my part of the asteroid belt, than ambush it from behind to take out it's engines with at least like 8 buccaneers and 4 cuttys. The cuttys would have men onboard to breach and clear the carrack so I could keep it. No ransom, make it quick so no one notices.
Maybe add a caterpillar filled with boarders, or use it to broadside the carrack if I can have a few tanks on board lol.
Note that this assumes that my pirate pack is occupying a part of an asteroid belt that is totally unmonitored by sats and suppresses comms well enough so they can't really call for help without getting out into open space first.
edit: I assumed this would all take place in an asteroid belt from reading the Belter talk in the title.
If in open space, I'd leave them alone cos too much risk. Maybe follow/lead them somewhere more secluded first.
If they are landed somewhere, I'd TEST-land a Caterpillar on top of the Carrack and just bumrush it with the 100+ pirates on board.
I'd assemble a large piece of "interest" , bait, out of junked crafts for the carrack to "explore" in my part of the asteroid belt, than ambush it from behind to take out it's engines with at least like 8 buccaneers and 4 cuttys. The cuttys would have men onboard to breach and clear the carrack so I could keep it. No ransom, make it quick so no one notices.
Maybe add a caterpillar filled with boarders, or use it to broadside the carrack if I can have a few tanks on board lol.
Note that this assumes that my pirate pack is occupying a part of an asteroid belt that is totally unmonitored by sats and suppresses comms well enough so they can't really call for help without getting out into open space first.
edit: I assumed this would all take place in an asteroid belt from reading the Belter talk in the title.
If in open space, I'd leave them alone cos too much risk. Maybe follow/lead them somewhere more secluded first.
If they are landed somewhere, I'd TEST-land a Caterpillar on top of the Carrack and just bumrush it with the 100+ pirates on board.
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No clue if the Redeemer will have enough power to punch through the Carrack's shields but anything smaller then a RSI Constellation is laughed at. I have done the 890jump mission many times solo in my Carrack and easily tank the two Cutlass's attacking as they can't touch the shields.
Shadow Reaper
Space Marshal
I think I explained about this some months ago, but just as a refresher on the whole issue of scout craft:
At present what it appears until the EM warfare patch comes, is that EM, and IR sensitivity scale with radar size, and that size scales as a power of 3. So a Medium scans 3 times as well as Small (we don't know if that is radius, diameter, volume, etc.) Certainly the larger the radar your ship has, the better scout it will be.
HOWEVER, when searching an area, scan coverage of all types is a linear function of the speed you are traveling, which means that fast ships that are small, might actually scan larger areas than medium ships that are slow. A scout's speed therefore matters immensely in the task of searching for anything.
Smaller ships also have the benefit they can more easily be carried by other ships across Q distances, and that they're harder to detect. If your recon intention is stealth recon, a small ship is probably your best bet. Special opportunities go with: the Tracker with it's special Long Look Radar suit, the Terrapin with it's medium radar suit, the Apollo with it's Large radar suite and the Polaris with its Cap radar suit, all of which are oversized for the ship bearing them.
It matters a lot if the 3:1 step size difference is scan radius, scan diameter or scan volume. If it's the first of these, scan size is hugely important and dominates other concerns. If it's the last of these, scan size makes a small enough difference that you're better off choosing the faster ship.
Theoretically, the Apollo Triage should be able to search much more space per unit time than the Terrapin, so unless you plan to carry the Turtle onto theater with a cap ship, it has virtually no advantage as a seach vessel over the Apollo.
At present what it appears until the EM warfare patch comes, is that EM, and IR sensitivity scale with radar size, and that size scales as a power of 3. So a Medium scans 3 times as well as Small (we don't know if that is radius, diameter, volume, etc.) Certainly the larger the radar your ship has, the better scout it will be.
HOWEVER, when searching an area, scan coverage of all types is a linear function of the speed you are traveling, which means that fast ships that are small, might actually scan larger areas than medium ships that are slow. A scout's speed therefore matters immensely in the task of searching for anything.
Smaller ships also have the benefit they can more easily be carried by other ships across Q distances, and that they're harder to detect. If your recon intention is stealth recon, a small ship is probably your best bet. Special opportunities go with: the Tracker with it's special Long Look Radar suit, the Terrapin with it's medium radar suit, the Apollo with it's Large radar suite and the Polaris with its Cap radar suit, all of which are oversized for the ship bearing them.
It matters a lot if the 3:1 step size difference is scan radius, scan diameter or scan volume. If it's the first of these, scan size is hugely important and dominates other concerns. If it's the last of these, scan size makes a small enough difference that you're better off choosing the faster ship.
Theoretically, the Apollo Triage should be able to search much more space per unit time than the Terrapin, so unless you plan to carry the Turtle onto theater with a cap ship, it has virtually no advantage as a seach vessel over the Apollo.
Lorddarthvik very nice ideas.
Shadow Reaper thank you for bringing insight into the thread with previous speculation and ideas sir
Aramsolari it is easily the best SCIFI on TV right now isn't it?
Shadow Reaper thank you for bringing insight into the thread with previous speculation and ideas sir
Aramsolari it is easily the best SCIFI on TV right now isn't it?
Yeah I would say so. It does have some hard sci fi elements but I'll consider it Space Opera and that's my jam. I like that the show/books covers some tough subjects notably politics and social economic issues.
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