Nautilus brochure and related data

[Nightlane]

EDIT : Nautilus info page and details now up for everybody

Aegis Nautilus - Roberts Space Industries | Follow the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42

Roberts Space Industries is the official go-to website for all news about Star Citizen and Squadron 42. It also hosts the online store for game items and merch, as well as all the community tools used by our fans.

robertsspaceindustries.com

- Montoya

Enjoy!!

Nautilus Brochure (Photos).pdf

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EDITED: better higher resolution version https://www.dropbox.com/s/ny7yqoipm0m7pqz/AEGIS Nautilus Brochure high-res.pdf?dl=0

EDITED2: Thanks Montoya! and...

Nautilus brochure and related data

I really love this ship. It is just too big for me. (I'm actually still tempted. Maybe one day we will get a smaller ship which can do something similar. (Or gimme a mine layer module for my caterpillar)

testsquadron.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/cw4f6q View: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/cw4f6q/some_random_mixed_info_bits_on_the_nautilus/

 

[Nightlane]

And some captures.

I got everything from 890J club discord. Credits there :-)

 

[Thalstan]

Thanks for the information.

 

[Printimus]

As someone that was there in person, it was amazing. This thing will be fun for sure!

 

[Bambooza]

It's an interesting ship. Almost as big as the Polaris.

Still not sure how it's going to be beneficial in any sort of combat engagement unless you are setting up an ambush or creating no go zones around a space installation. The space installation minefield would be questionable as I am not sure how fast the mines can be harvested by another Nautilus especially if you do not have PC's 24/7. But that forward dual S7 sticking out the front is no slouch. Still, it will need escort protection as fighters and small bombers would have no issues getting into its many blind spots.

But I still am having a hard time seeing its use. Its a specialized ship with limited functionality that goes towards slowing down an enemy force that is advancing on your position. Meaning you need to know they are coming and need time to prepare. Or a space station where you want to slow down advancement along select routes and thus mostly control the field of battle. It's just these only work when actively patrolled and in a game world where player populations both are not always online and also like to go and do other things then spend all day guarding a point in space that might have something exciting happen months from now. And so what happens much like what happens in Ark, you'll log in to find that your carefully laid out minefield is blown away or circumvented and that base you were attempting to protect has been looted.

Now using interdiction and a minefield might work but it runs such a high risk of blowing up the ships with the loot that it doesn't seem to be worth the risk. The other option is to set up forward fallbacks when attacking into Vanduul space in that you engage then retreat to your minefield to have them follow you into it. But this only works if it's possible to reduce the physical fleet in a system or if NPC ships will always be able to spawn in with no regional limit to how many reserves exist for a region.

 

[Radegast74]

As someone that was there in person, it was amazing. This thing will be fun for sure!

That's interesting, can you share any specific hype?

I'm traveling, and all I can see has me going "Meh...a minesweeper/layer?"

(It doesn't help that one of my best friends was on a minesweeper, ha ha...)

 

[Nightlane]

Supposedly better version...

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

 

[Nightlane]

That's interesting, can you share any specific hype?

I'm traveling, and all I can see has me going "Meh...a minesweeper/layer?"

(It doesn't help that one of my best friends was on a minesweeper, ha ha...)

64 SCUs
Long range
Twin S7 turret
Two quad s3 turrets
One missile turret

mine bay and drone bay

Heavy armored + 3 large shields

Can place 4 mines at the same time and then have some time as cool down before the next deployment.

Can operate as a lone wolf.

Mines of two types:
- proximity seeker mines equivalent to an S5 torp. (Mines are S7)
- twin S2 sentry auto guns

It is pretty and the Warbond one comes with a black + white + gold skin :-)

Capable of tackling capital ships.

Multirole

 

[Nightlane]

I have named this ship the “troll ship” :-)

 

[Radegast74]

Interesting...I'm still trying to think of how to use it. A group of at least 6 of these could pretty much mine every OM point on a planet, and make getting around it pretty difficult for an opposing force.

 

[Talonsbane]

Which factions is everybody choosing for the mini-game?

 

[Slo]

It's a big ship.

So I bought it.

 

[GarikDuvall]

It's so sexy, and this is the type of ship I like (the more unusual, niche role... Not another standard fighter, etc). I want it... But not when I saw the price. Shit, for that much I might as well go all the way and get an 890.

 

[Tealwraith]

Which factions is everybody choosing for the mini-game?

Red Team or Green Team?

 

[Talonsbane]

Red Team or Green Team?

 

[GarikDuvall]

Also, one thing that will make it useful... Is I don't know that mines are big enough to show up on radar, outside of maybe an AWACS type (Hornet Seeker, or maybe Size L radar narrow-banded). I think you would have to be specifically searching for them and have a super narrow radar band, making that particular ship not situationally aware (ie needing other vessels to keep full scope/long range radar up). Also if they were a dark color (like sentry ones are) they'd also be incredibly hard to see visually.

This could be even more advantageous if you have wild-weasle type craft flying that are screwing with people's radar pictures, where enemy may accidentally run into them. Placing mines in a nebula type area would also be a bitch to find. OR go DS9 and mine the shit out of a jump point entry/exit, sit back sip your beer of choice, and watch the show.

 

[GarikDuvall]

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Red sounds like more appropriate, but Nova has our colors.

 

[Talonsbane]

Red sounds like more appropriate, but Nova has our colors.

I know, that's why I'm so torn between them. I figured that I would ask here so that I would support the cause of the majority of us in hopes that we win the secret prize at the end.

 

[GarikDuvall]

I think we gotta go that black & yellow,black & yellow,black & yellow.

Edit: though a lot of peeps will probably just pick the first option, which means they have could have the sheer numbers on their side. But then again when has TEST worried about being outmatched or outgunned? (Sure an enemy can have a lot more fancy ships... But it won't mean much when we ram them with 100+ Aurora's) :P

 

[Talonsbane]

Ok, so I chose the black & gold & I've won several matches, but it seems that in order for a match to count, you have to perform it with a friend using a code to connect.