New imperial weapon..

[garhkal]

Was thinking about this for imperials. It mentions many an area, that the imps love to mine parts of space on less used trade routes, as these are those mostly used by smugglers and rebel scum.

Craft: Akriad systems Defender platform Mark 1
Type: Capital space mine
Scale: Capital
Length: 60 Metres by 40 meters
Skill: N/A. Automated
Crew: Automated
Crew Skill: Sensors 6d, Communicatins 5d, cap ship weapons 6d
Cargo Capacity: N/A
Consumables: 6 months
Cost: 182,000 credits, not available used. Availability code 4X
Hyperdrive Multiplier: N/A
Nav Computer: N/A
Maneuverability: has none
Space: 1
Atmosphere: Cannot enter
Hull: 2D+2
Shields: 4D
Sensors:
Passive: 50/0D Scan: 75/1D
Search: 100/2D Focus: 10/4D
Weapons:
Ion pulse wave
Fire Arc: full globe
Skill: Capital ship weaponry
Fire Control: Not really applicable
Space Range: 40
Damage: 0-10 space units/7d ion damage, 11-20 space units/5d damage
21-30 space units/3d damage, 31-40 space units 1d damage.

This platform has been made with one purpose in mind. Sit at an area, masked from observers both visually and sensors (shields add to teh diff to detect, and is painted black to mesh with space). It waits and 'listens'. When it detects a ship within it's blast radius, it charges the ION pulse wave and waits until the ship is as close as possible before detonating. If needed it will also use its limited sublight to help push it in the right direction. Once the pulse is activated, it envelops a full sphere around the mine, most likely deactivating anythin in its blast radius, starfighter sized. It then sends off a communications burst to the nearest imperial facility loaded into it's memory banks, to let them know something is awaiting capture. The power cells have enough charge, to allow 18 such bursts before it needs full recharging.


My only thoughts for problems, is as it 'explodes' in a full sphere, would it even need Cap Ship gunnery?
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[Boomer]

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In there are total stats for Imperial space mines. There are no WEG stats for them, and they are somewhat limited in the creativity department your mine displays.

Stat em, and let's make more.
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[KageRyu]

I would say since it is an area effect, it needs no gunnery skill, unless the skill represents it's ability to Identify potential targets, etc. Perhaps a knowledge skill for identifying and anylizing threat potential of vessels, so as to best maximize it's use? Also, I feel the sublight drives are really unescessary for a mine, and should be left off. It would be much easier to detect on sensors if it were moving.
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[garhkal]

I felt, giving it a SU of 1, would allow it to atleast keep out of the way of metors, and such.

And does anyone else have any idea on the AOE/skill roll??
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[KageRyu]

There are generally 2 types of AOE weapons, ranged, and stationary. Ranged weapons (grenades, ordinance, etc...) make a skill roll to hit the general area, then targets can try to leap out of the primary blast zone, but damage is resolved against all targets caught in the blast. With stationary AOE (such as mines and explosives) there is really no skill roll to detonate, there is usually a trigger of some sort, and once tripped, they affect the entire area. Usually such devices are concealed, and it is up to potential victims to detect them. With motion triggers, or advanced FOF identification, I would recommend some form of Knowledge or search skill for the device (as determined appropriate by the GM for a given trigger).
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[garhkal]

[KageRyu]

[garhkal]

Though most players 'sensor' rang for passive is not as big as the weapons blast radius....

Here is the re-write.. Changed it's range for both the 'blast' and the sensors....

Craft: Akriad systems Defender platform Mark 1
Type: Capital space mine
Scale: Capital
Length: 60 Metres by 40 meters
Skill: N/A. Automated
Crew: Automated
Crew Skill: Sensors 6d, Scholar: BoSS 6d
Cargo Capacity: N/A
Consumables: 6 months
Cost: 182,000 credits, not available used. Availability code 4X
Hyperdrive Multiplier: N/A
Nav Computer: N/A
Maneuverability: has none
Space: 1
Atmosphere: Cannot enter
Hull: 2D+2
Shields: 4D
Sensors:
Passive: 80/0D Scan: 120/1D
Search: 160/2D Focus: 10/4D
Weapons:
Ion pulse wave
Fire Arc: full globe
Skill: Capital ship weaponry
Fire Control: Not really applicable
Space Range: 40
Damage: 0-20 space units/7d ion damage, 21-40 space units/5d+1 damage
41-60 space units/3d+2 damage, 61-80 space units 2d damage.

This platform has been made with one purpose in mind. Sit at an area, masked from observers both visually and sensors (shields add to teh diff to detect, and is painted black to mesh with space). It waits and 'listens'. When it detects a ship within it's blast radius, it compares the ships id (which is usually one of the first things you pick up) against it's BoSS watch list. This list, is updated periodically, especially if there was a lot of ships recently added. If it detects a ship on that list, it charges the ION pulse wave and waits until the ship is as close as possible before detonating. If needed it will also use its limited sublight to help push it in the right direction, but if it detects that the 'target ship' is moving away as if it was detected, it will "blow" the pulse, even if not in optimal damage range.
Once the pulse is activated, it envelops a full sphere around the mine, most likely deactivating anythin in its blast radius, starfighter sized. It then sends off a communications burst to the nearest imperial facility loaded into it's memory banks, to let them know something is awaiting capture. The power cells have enough charge, to allow 18 such bursts before it needs full recharging. From the time of 'starting to charge' to ready to blow, it needs 3 full rounds. From a pulse blow out, to ready to recharge again, it takes 6.. So it can pulse twice in a 9 round period.
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[garhkal]

Arise, i command thee

Well, time to go into the past on some of my tech i have designed..
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[DougRed4]

I really like this one! Am considering now how to use it...
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[DougRed4]

So it hits anything starfighter sized; what about capital sized or freighters?

Also, what about ships that have false transponder codes? If the BoSS registry shows it as just a regular, old, commercial freighter, I suppose it won't detonate, right?
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[DougRed4]

One last question (for now):

How does one figure out what range the device is at, when a ship (presumably the PC's) triggers it?
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[Esoomian]

[Fallon Kell]

Looks pretty good. I'd consider adding a pair of blaster turrets for point defense (especially against meteoroids), and putting a charge time on the mine. Otherwise the thing could disable Death Squadron in a few turns. I can see players snatching one and just spamming the zap button...
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[Dromdarr_Alark]

You could just give it a simple repulsor system to keep asteroids from hitting it.
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