Attack of the Swarm, Ship Upgrade time

[Statboy]

In about 2-3 sessions, you will be star-ship bound again. You will be given the full the support of the SDF to outfit your ship as you see fit. Max BP will be 145, and you have to buy a Drift Engine. You have two choices for ship frames. You can either make whatever modifications you like to your current ship which is a Medium Transport. Or you can customize a Suskillon Whip, which is the basic Fighter Star Ship of the SDF, on a Medium Explorer frame.

The explorer turns faster, and gives a +1 piloting, but has no heavy weapons slots. Among other differences.

Standard Suskillon Whip:
Frame, Medium Explorer- 12 bp
Power Core, Pulse Green - 15 bp
Drift Engine, Signal Booster - 15 bp
Sensors, Advanced Long-Range - 14 bp
Shields, Medium 100 - 15 bp
Thrusters, M12 - 6 bp
Crew quarters, Common - 0 bp
Computer, Mk 1 tetranode- 4 bp
Armor, Mk 4- 15 bp
Defenses, Mk 5- 8 bp
Expansion, Brig- 1 bp
Expansion, Cargo holds 2- 0 bp
Expansion, Escape Pods- 1 bp
Weapon, Light EMP cannon- 8 bp
Weapon, Light Torpedo Launcher x2- 7 bp each
Weapon, Light Plasma Cannon- 12 bp

 

[theLumberJack]

What tier will we be at?

 

[Statboy]

Tier 5 but due to the change in BP prices that occurred after this campaign was written, your max BP will be set at 145, which is 5 over the Stock Suskillon Whip. But you will get the first health increase.

 

[theLumberJack]

My suggested modifications to the whip to spend the last 5 BP would be to get:

• Good Quarters (2 BP)
• Swap a cargo bay for Healing Pods (2 BP)

 

[Statboy]

You have one small and one large expansion bay that is empty (its probably good to keep one of those as a cargo bay to hold supplies). I would mention that as Large creatures two of you don't fit in Lifepods. A single Lifeboat expansion can hold 2 Lifeboats. Lifeboats can hold one Large creature or 2 medium.

 

[theLumberJack]

That's more than enough for me to take a closer look at things. Don't want to die in vacuum if I don't have to.

I also missed that our forward cannon was an EMP. Will post again with more thorough suggestions.

 

[Statboy]

They're all light weapons, so you can choose how you want them arrayed. You can have 1 light in each of the arcs except AFT, and 1 light turret.

https://aonsrd.com/Starship_BaseFrames.aspx?ItemName=Explorer

 

[theLumberJack]

Sorry about the delay. Here are my modifications to the base Suskillon Whip (ignore previous):

Total Spent BP: 145/145
Total Spent PCU: 154/150

(BP/PCU)
Sensors:

• New: Advanced Medium Range (8/0)
  
• Old: Advanced Long Range (14/0)

Expansion 1:

• New: Life Boats (3/5)
• Old: Brig (1/1)

Expansion 2:

• New: Medical Bay (8/4)
• Old: Cargo (0/0)

Forward Weapon:

• New: Coilgun (10/10)
• Old: Light EMP Cannon (8/10)

Thrusters:

• New: M10 (5/70)
• Old: M12 (6/80)

Edit: Just nitpicking the white spacing.

 

[Statboy]

Medical bay is 4 PCU but I doubt that will change anything.

 

[Statboy]

You guys will have a 200 BP cap for your Starship, when you finish book 3. We should be there in 2-3 sessions.

 

[theLumberJack]

New Totals are:

• BP Spent: 200
• PCU: 215/250

Ship Upgrades:

1. Power Core
   • Old: Pulse Green (150 PCU/15 BP)
   • New: Pulse Orange (250 PCU/25 BP)
2. Sensors
   • Old: Advanced Medium Range (4 BP)
   • New: Advanced Long Range (14 BP)
3. Crew Quarters
   • Old: Common
   • New: Luxurious (5 BP)
4. Computer
   • Old: Mk1 Tetranode (10 PCU/4 BP)
   • New: Mk2 Tetranode (15 PCU/ 16 BP)
5. Defense
   • Old: Mk 5 Defenses (4 PCU/ 8 BP)
   • New: Mk8 Defenses (9 PCU/18 BP)
6. Forward Weapon
   • Old: Coilgun (10 PCU/10 BP)
   • New: Light Plasma Cannon (10 PCU/12 BP)
7. Port Weapon
   • Old: Light Torpedo Launcher (5 PCU/ 7 BP)
   • New: Light Cytoplasm Weapons (10 PCU/6BP)
8. Starboard Weapon (as Port)
   
9. Shields
   • Old: Medium 100 (30 PCU/15 BP)
   • New: Heavy 320 (70 PCU/27 BP)

 

[Statboy]

I'm showing 188 BP and 206/250 PCU. Did you upgrade armor or thrusters?

edit* I did not have everything turned on. I'm at 215 PCU, but still at 188 BP. I'm guessing Armor? An upgrade to Mk6 would make it 200 even.

 

[theLumberJack]

I definitely still have Mk4 Armor at 15 BP in my sheet. Trying to go through it again to see if there are any discrepancies.