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Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by smr   » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:16 pm

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I was reading A Call to Duty and realized what system or people could do with remnants of the destroyed and captured Solly fleets. The Grand Alliance could give the fleet to Torch, Marsh, and other systems in the Verge. Most of the systems do not have the ability to update these ships but some do. The trick is to find and convince the systems that it would be a good idea to update these ships. My reasoning is thus: to refurbish ships it takes almost the same equipment to build these ships. Once a system starts successfully refurbish warships, they can start building new ships. Granted, alot of new industry would be required to build new ships because many items would have to be manufactured from scratch rather than bought.
Ultimately, these type of mobile fleet giveaways could be helpful to build verge and shell space industries.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by kzt   » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:34 pm

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Torch would have to decommission their entire fleet to run ONE of these monstrosities. It's not so absurd with a planet that has a population of billions, but Torch is tiny.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by cthia   » Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:59 pm

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Can't the GA use them for live-fire sims?

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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by Rakhmamort   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:17 am

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cthia wrote:Can't the GA use them for live-fire sims?


lol! not saying it's not a good use for training gunnery teams but I believe breaking them down and using the refined metals from the ships would be better than simply scattering bits and pieces of it all over a training area.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by KNick   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:08 am

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Ahhhh!! Dead horse topic #16. Flail away gentlemen, flail away.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by SWM   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:42 am

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Not only can no Verge systems refurbish these superdreadnoughts, they can't equip, maintain, or man them either. A superdreadnought is overkill for almost any Verge system, unless they are planning a war.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by Hutch   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:43 am

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KNick wrote:Ahhhh!! Dead horse topic #16. Flail away gentlemen, flail away.


Indeed--one post is all it will get from me, KNick.

smr, let's take the best prepared options, Marsh (who has had a number of years as a SEM base and time to improve their navy) and Rembrandt of the Talbot sector (most developed and with their own SDF).

Why would they want a ship that (1) Requires 6,000 personnel, which will probably adversly impact their readiness of the rest of their fleet (2) Is obsolete against any 'modern' waller (and any SEM/RH ship larger than a CA (3) Without support or maintenance capabilities and (4) With excessive costs for modifying and improving the on-board systems.

And sytems like Nuncio or Dresden that are poorer and have much smaller cadres of trained personnel--talk about white elephants....

No, like kzt says, people have been trying for years to find some practical use for the SD's, and so far no one (including yours truly) have managed to do better than "temporary POW quarters with weapons and nodes disabled."

Still, someone may come up with an idea we've never heard--but that's not the way to bet...

IMHO as always. YMMV.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by Joat42   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 9:42 am

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  1. Use transmutation tech to convert the fleet to chocolate.
  2. Divide and sell in bite-sized packages.
  3. Profit (and spare the poor horse)!!!
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by namelessfly   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:50 am

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Joat42 wrote:
  1. Use transmutation tech to convert the fleet to chocolate.
  2. Divide and sell in bite-sized packages.
  3. Profit (and spare the poor horse)!!!
:mrgreen:


About 50 SDs capturedat Spindle + ~250 SDs captured at Manticore = 300 SDs.

At <7 million tons per SD that is about 2 billion tons of Chocolate.

The woman of the GA will be very happy, maybe even happy enough to make their men happy.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by Dafmeister   » Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:53 am

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Joat42 wrote:
  1. Use transmutation tech to convert the fleet to chocolate.
  2. Divide and sell in bite-sized packages.
  3. Profit (and spare the poor horse)!!!
:mrgreen:


Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have a winner.
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