Nexus-Class Light Freighter

[Coach]

Nexus-Class Light Freighter ​

AFFILIATION
Tradesmen

MANUFACTURER
Nio Clux

CLASS
Light-Freighter

ROLE
Cargo transport

COMPOSITION
Durasteel and transparisteel

DIMENSIONS
40m long


CREW
1 to 6 (1 Pilot, 1 Co-Pilot, 2x Gunners,
1 in engineering, 1 in fire/damage control)

PASSENGER CAPACITY
6

CARGO CAPACITY
40 tons

HANGAR CAPACITY
1 speeder

CONSUMABLES
5 standard months

SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY
50 mglt with better than average agility for it's size​

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ARMAMENT

• Light-laser cannon on ventral mount
• Light-laser cannon on dorsal mount

EQUIPMENT

• 1x class 6 hyperdrive.
• 1x ventral docking ring with integrated docking tube.
• 1x Light shield generator.
• 3x 4-being escape pod.

DESCRIPTION

When created, the Nexus is a very plain and simple design. This model was created to give merchants a fairly inexpensive alternative to the normally over priced market. The ship is surprisingly easy to upgrade and customize which makes it a favorite among some smuggling and pirating circles. The main drawback to this ship over others is that it has a much smaller cargo bay than most freighters of its size. This makes it a good starter ship to building your business but if you wish for your company to grow in a cargo/shipping way, it is a means to an end or stepping stone to a ship with more cargo space and thus more profits.

The ship is armed with two laser cannons, one Ventral and other dorsal giving the freighter a 360 sphere aiming field. The cannons are too light to do any major damage to anything other than a star fighter who comes too close, but can be easily upgraded to dual medium laser cannons which pack a mightier punch against larger ships like other freighters and gunships, with the right tech upgrades, of course. The hull offers many positions for other weaponry installments making it the key ship for most smugglers or pirates.

The Nexus also has light shields equipped.

A crew of one is able to pilot and function the Nexus but at a much smaller capability than with a full crew. With a full crew however, the Nexus seems a lot smaller than she is which is why a droid is preferred instead of a few crewman on most long hauls.

When fully equipped and manned, the Nexus could be converted into either a powerful defensive support ship or gunship to any fleet. This will take much time and many tech upgrades to accomplish but is a mighty goal to attain.


LEGALITY
legal on most worlds

INTENT
To give a basic freighter for characters to start out with.

ADVANCED TECH
No.

 

[AutoFox]

I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let you use the image for the Dynamic-class freighter, it's too recognizable as something else. Further, your description is far too sparse, I need more flavor text for something like this. Even further, you need to format this to match the template. Please and thank you.

One other thing, no company would openly market a ship to smugglers. That would be like Cessna building a plane specifically for carrying cocaine.

 

[Coach]

Going to change the description here in a second, if that picture also does not work, will one of the following work?

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

 

[Coach]

Alright, all changed up.

 

[AutoFox]

Light shields cannot absorb "most of the the incoming fire," they can take 1 or 2 direct hits at most. If I were you, I wouldn't mention what effect they have, only that they exist.

 

[Coach]

Was just trying to add some flavor :) the same rules apply.

Changed it.

@AutoFox

 

[Loco]

So, now that everything is squared away with the formatting and such of the submission and the picture is a less obviously canon ship from another era (I think the new one works fine), I'm now comparing this ship (along with its stated intent of being a basic starter freighter) to our other two starter freighters for the Timeline- The Overhead and the Mynock. Based on that comparison, your intent section doesn't seem very inaccurate.

This ship is better armed than both of the others, has a better hyperdrive than both, a better passenger capacity, better cargo capacity than the Mynock and is just as fast as the Overhead despite the additional systems. If approved, it would also be the only civilian ship afaik to come with armor. In conclusion, it doesn't really read like a basic starter ship. You could either dumb it down some and bring it more in line with the other ships in its class (find a happy medium between the other two, maybe) or make it advanced tech.

@Coach

 

[Coach]

@Loco I tried to dumb it down and was told it needed more flavor lol but will do.

 

[Malon]

@Loco I tried to dumb it down and was told it needed more flavor lol but will do.

Flavor doesn't mean beef up it's stats and exaggerate it's capabilities. When you're asked to "give flavor," it means add some lore to the description so we know why it exists and what its role has historically been.

 

[Coach]

@Loco @AutoFox

Okay, I dumbed it down a bit.

I removed the light armor.

I made it a class 6 instead of 5 hyperdrive.

I moved the passenger capacity down from 8 to 6 which is good because with 8 and a full crew, 2 would be out of luck with escape pods.

Also you said that the Nexus is more heavily armed. Both the other ships have dual laser cannons meaning two on the same cannon. The nexus has 2 different cannons but only a single light laser cannon on both, so are they not equivalent?

 

[Loco]

@Loco I tried to dumb it down and was told it needed more flavor lol but will do.

Flavor doesn't mean beef up it's stats and exaggerate it's capabilities. When you're asked to "give flavor," it means add some lore to the description so we know why it exists and what its role has historically been.

Malon is correct. I'm not asking you to dumb down the flavor/fluff/lore- that looks fine. I'm asking you to bring its capabilities more in line with the other non-advanced starter tech, or make it advanced tech.

 

[Coach]

Did I not accomplish that with my latest edit? @Loco

 

[Loco]

Did I not accomplish that with my latest edit? @Loco

Auto or I will let you know when we get around to re-reviewing it.

 

[AutoFox]

@Coach most of it looks good, but can you please specify the rating of the guns in the armament section? Light or medium (I would suggest dual light or single medium)? Also, the way you have it formatted, the name of this thing sounds like Nexus Light. Unless that was the intent, please change the name and the thread title to Nexus-class Light Freighter.

With those done, I'll approve this.

 

[Coach]

@AutoFox Done. Thank you!

 

[AutoFox]

Approved.

 

[Trix]

@Coach

Take a look at the Nerf and the VT-1100. You may want to reskin one of those, they are both better equipped than what you made here.

 

[Loco]

@Coach

Take a look at the Nerf and the VT-1100. You may want to reskin one of those, they are both better equipped than what you made here.

This has significantly more cargo and passenger carrying capacity than both of those.

 

[Coach]

Thanks Trix and Loco. I will take a look.