Nav Computer

Kirkler · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject: Nav Computer

Ok I've been lurking for a while and thought I would start posting. Does anyone have an idea as to how much a NavCompture would cost to have installed in a Starfighter? I have a player who wants one and I can't find anything to go off.

garhkal · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

What type of fighter?? Most simply do not have the space or power remaining to support one.
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Kirkler · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject:

It started out as a V-wing but now it's just the shell of one. He wants to replace the driod with a Nav Computer. I figured that could work.

Matthias777 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

I seem to remember seeing starfighters with actual nav computers, although they were limited to a specific number of jumps (5 or so, I think). An R2 unit costs a little over four thousand, and holds ten jumps, so I would say for a 10-jump navicomp, you'd be looking at around three grand plus installation.
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vong · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

Matthias777 · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

For an actual fully functional nav computer, I'd say 5,000-7,500 for a light freighter-type. You're paying more for the miniaturization for the 10-jump navicomp, methinks.
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Kirkler · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

I'll make him pay 25,000 - 50,000. The only reason he wants one is becouse someone else in the group has one. He's the kind of person who has to try and have the best Character all the time.

hisham · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

First you have to see what type of computer can be physically fitted.

Is there still room in the avionics bay? If there is you fit the computer there with 2 x 80GB hard disks for your jump data. But you would also have to design and install the cabling from the computer to the control panel in the cockpit.

If there is no room in the avionics bay, you could install a smaller version that would fit into the cockpit just behind the control panel, which has an 80 GB hard disk.

Then you have to connect the computer to the GPS (galactic positioning system?- hyperspace nav beacons?) so it will know exactly where you are for it to display nearby ports and calculate jumps.

Calculating your own jumps will cost time and is subject to human error. However you can have preprogrammed jump calculations, at the cost of hard disk space.

A standalone military-grade navcomputer costs about 45,000 credits. With ancillary equipment integration it can go up to 100,000 credits.

/sells real navcomputers for a living.
//can you tell what in my post is real life and what is fiction?
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Kirkler · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:00 am Post subject:

yeah I think 45,000 seems like a good price to go from. Thanks everyone for the input. Best D6 forums around.

garhkal · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject:

That is what we are here for..

Darth Ginzain · Lieutenant Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 77

For price I'd say something around 5,000 credits. I base that on a comparison of the Y-Wing and Y-Wing Longprobe. Y-Wing is 135,000. LP is 142,000. The LP has a nav comp instead of the co-pilot, heaps better sensors package, and 2 weeks more consumables and 35kilo's less cargo capacity. The computer itself takes up the co-pilot's chair so would be roughly the size of a human IMO.

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