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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by crewdude48   » Thu May 01, 2014 3:39 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
Rakhmamort wrote:Why do you keep insisting that crewing and moving an SD ...


Duh!

Because the premise of the thread is "what do you do with the captured ships other than salvage and scrap?"

Your solution is, "salvage and scrap."


Because, to Manticore, scrap has more value than Solarian SDs.

The premice is actually "what would make sense to do with the captured ships, other than salvage and scrap."

"Training/hospital space station" makes less sense than "system yard gnome."

According to RFC, POW camps make sense, (I don't really see it, but it is his universe.)

Selling at scrap value to anybody who can charter a transport and sends a couple thousand crew to take it home makes sense.

Not much else.
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu May 01, 2014 7:28 am

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crewdude48 wrote:The premise is actually "what would make sense to do with the captured ships, other than salvage and scrap."


Where' the fun in that interpretation? It makes for a really short thread. :lol:
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by crewdude48   » Thu May 01, 2014 7:57 am

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Because we need some sort of frame work. "What can you do?" has no frame.

-You CAN crew the SDs and use them to suplement your wall.
-You CAN use them as the heart of the Quadrant Guard.
-You CAN build a space dock around them, and expend massive ammounts of time and energy to convert them in to Destroyer Carriers.
-You CAN scrap all of your SD(p)s and use these as the exact blueprints for the next generation of Manticoran Wallers.
-You CAN reconfigure the interior so that, when it is rotating on its long access with gravity off, it is a fun house for the planetary children.

But none of these make any SENSE to do.

Weird Harold wrote:
crewdude48 wrote:The premise is actually "what would make sense to do with the captured ships, other than salvage and scrap."


Where' the fun in that interpretation? It makes for a really short thread. :lol:
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by SWM   » Thu May 01, 2014 8:38 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
Rakhmamort wrote:Why do you keep insisting that crewing and moving an SD ...


Duh!

Because the premise of the thread is "what do you do with the captured ships other than salvage and scrap?"

Your solution is, "salvage and scrap."

Um, no, the purpose of the thread is not "what to do with the captured ships other than salvage and scrap." That is only your interpretation of the purpose of the thread. Salvage and scrap is a perfectly valid response to the questions posed in the thread.
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu May 01, 2014 8:42 am

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crewdude48 wrote:-You CAN crew the SDs and use them to suplement your wall.
-You CAN use them as the heart of the Quadrant Guard.
-You CAN build a space dock around them, and expend massive amounts of time and energy to convert them in to Destroyer Carriers.
-You CAN scrap all of your SD(p)s and use these as the exact blueprints for the next generation of Manticoran Wallers.
-You CAN reconfigure the interior so that, when it is rotating on its long access with gravity off, it is a fun house for the planetary children.


Actually, no you can't do most of those; for lack of shipyards capable of disassembling or modifying a SD or because RFC has said they have no military value -- or both.

Although...

You might be able make a really interesting fun house without needing ship-yard level modifications. :D I bet nobody else has suggested that use. :D
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by Weird Harold   » Thu May 01, 2014 8:44 am

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SWM wrote:Salvage and scrap is a perfectly valid response to the questions posed in the thread.


Then the thread should have ended with post number two. :roll:
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by SWM   » Thu May 01, 2014 9:15 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
SWM wrote:Salvage and scrap is a perfectly valid response to the questions posed in the thread.


Then the thread should have ended with post number two. :roll:

That's what I thought, too. Maybe we can go on to something else now.
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by kzt   » Thu May 01, 2014 10:38 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
You might be able make a really interesting fun house without needing ship-yard level modifications. :D I bet nobody else has suggested that use. :D

Someone suggested mobiles. Really, really big mobiles.
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Re: Honorverse series, the future..?
Post by MaxxQ   » Thu May 01, 2014 1:20 pm

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kzt wrote:
Weird Harold wrote:
You might be able make a really interesting fun house without needing ship-yard level modifications. :D I bet nobody else has suggested that use. :D

Someone suggested mobiles. Really, really big mobiles.


I still like the turn-them-into-chocolate idea.
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Re: Light bulb Captured Solly fleet
Post by Brigade XO   » Fri May 02, 2014 2:51 pm

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For one caputred Solly SD, put together a scratch crew to navigate one and pair it up with a BC as it's defenses.

Send the pair out to make surprise appearances just outside the hyper limits of a number of Solly systems. Drop into normal space, deploy a few Ghost Rider drones (to be run by the BC but the SD can carry them) You can just run outside the hyper limit while the RDs scout the system. If something comes out to "run you off" you could destroy the RDs.
Otherwise just cruse around the edge of the hyper limit all big and nasty and get people all in a twitter about who could be using SDs to scout systems. Would waste a lot of time and energy on the part of the SL looking to defend against something that isn't actually a threat.

Just for fun, change the transponder on the SD to broadcast (when you switch it on) FORMER SLN Zephran Cochrain just to tweak their noses if you want to.
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