Separatist Ships in Alliance Service

[CRMcNeill]

I would tend towards allowing droids which aren't actually plugged into the ship to be protected from ion cannon effects (at least, the ones attacking the ship itself). Techno-babble for it would be something like insulated walls and ceilings in crew spaces to protect both organic and droid crew.
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[Zarm R'keeg]

I dunno about the base concept here. Don't forget, most of the Rebels grew up as Repbulic folks, seeing the Seps as the bad guys. Just because the Empire corrupted their Republic...

Well, just imagine that the US got overthrown from within by some kinda dictator (please, no cracks about modern politics! ), and a resistance formed to restore the ideals of the constitution... and then members of Al Queda showed up and said 'Hey, we were fighting the American government, too! Let's join forces!' I think the enemy-of-my-enemy mentality would not be enough to guarantee widespread adoption.

So I would tend to think the Rebellion wouldn't be doing much with CIS ships... especially as the Empire has a good couple of decades before organized rebellion, and I'm sure they'd go in and sweep up all the derelicts pretty quickly post Order 66- not just leave them sitting there waiting to be scavenged. Like, when we won WWII, we didn't just leave all the German/Japanese hardware sitting around because the war was over; we saw to it that it was taken or dismantled (as far as I know). I'd imagine the power-consolidating Empire doing the same within the first few months- occupying former Sepratist strongholds and rounding up their tech.

If anyone would be using those ships, IMHO, it would be the Imperials- though more likely, they'd be melting 'em down to provide raw materials for the rapid buildup of the Imperial starfleet. The only way I could see them in rebel hands is if they raided some Imperial shipyard of impounded derelicts, or you had a very early rebel/CIS group that got organized, fast (like, within days or weeks of the Empire's formation) and managed to muster up the towing power to grab these lifeless hulks and drag them somewhere that no one knew about before the Republic could sweep in and snap them up. And even then, that would be in small numbers...
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[cynanbloodbane]

[CRMcNeill]

[Zarm R'keeg]

[cynanbloodbane]

Except the formation of the empire kind of proves that the separatists were right about the Republic being corrupt. Many of the more honest loyalists would at least privately admit that an armed resistance may be called for. The next step is to try and secure the needed resources for that potential use.
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[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

So, I'm trying to nail down how the Alliance would make use of CIS Capital Ships, so that I know what direction I want to go with the stats. I've gotten the smaller ships nailed down, but the bigger ones are giving me some pause.

C-9979 - This one's pretty obvious; the Alliance doesn't really have any landing craft.

Munificent-Class Star Frigate - We actually discussed this one over on the Interstellar Communications thread, in that the Alliance could make great use of these ships as information warfare and propaganda platforms. They could also serve as command and control platforms for important operations.

Recusant-Class Light Destroyer - As near as I can figure, this one would lose a lot of internal volume if it was converted over to an organic crew. That means low troop transport and starfighter capacity. It still has good guns, though, so I can see it serving in Alliance battle lines, but with an emphasis on direct fire combat, only carrying defensive starfighters.

Providence-Class Star Cruiser - These would fit well into the Alliance Battle Lines, with both heavy guns and starfighter capacity. The insane number of proton torpedo tubes would likely need to be swapped out with energy weapons, for economy's sake.

Lucrehulk-Class Battleship - These I'm picturing more as primarily troop transports. For big guns, I think I'll swap out the transceiver dishes on the Droid Control Ship and replace them with heavy turbolasers. The problem is that these ships make huge targets; even with the redesign needed for an organic crew, the Lucrehulk will still carry massive amounts of troops and starfighters, which would make them a prime target for the Empire in any fleet engagement. At the very least, these would only be fielded as part of much larger units, and held back at least somewhat from the front lines to protect them.

Those are my initial thoughts. Converting over the crew numbers is giving me some headaches, as the numbers quoted in the available sources seem ridiculously low for such large ships.

Thoughts?
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[Luwingo_Spince]

[Thx1138]

you have to remember that at the beginning of the rebellion, they needed to get their hands on enough hardware to be a threat, the sep fleet covered all corners of the galaxy, just look at the amount that attacked Corusant and that was only a small fraction of the fleet. Also it would be impossible for any galactic government to recover all the ships used by the CIS, I mean we are still uncovering WWII Bombs in Europe. Most of the ships would be in pockets of the outer rim with a few in hundred in other sectors. Since the outer rim is not well patrolled and mapped by the empire, it is possible that a huge number of ships would stay lost like the Katana Fleet. Also any tracking equipment on them would have been shut down due to the shut down code disabling all equipment on the ships since many of the war ships are just huge droids crewed by smaller droids.

[Thx1138]

I could also see the empire purposely leaving the ships to drift so that pirates and other groups could use them, that way the empire could justify the build up of military forces since with the clone wars over, many people would expect the military to be scaled down. If pirates used CIS ships in their raids, the empire would be able to use the fear from huge pirate fleets of CIS ships to continue the building of the Imperial fleet.

[CRMcNeill]

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make...
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[Zarm R'keeg]