The Glade 4.0

You lucky bastard.

Idris Frigate

Yeah, I was going to pay that our flagship was now a frigate, but then fell asleep on the couch when the nap snuck up on me unawares...

Because I never made it upstairs, I haven't even read the Jump Point, yet!

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Hmm.

Sleeps 26, now, (24 crew + Captain's and XO's quarters), has an armory, a briefing room that seats 9 -- some of those are intended to be bridge crew, though it does sound like the lengthening means they might add a third Hornet to the capacity... Also, a 3-cell brig and either 2-bed or 4-bed infirmary (hard to tell whether the shot shown is mirrored behind the camera or not) sound like they'll get use in the Squadron 42 campaign.

As they go component by component with the WIP concept and design block-outs, they're also giving a good idea of the layout of the ship.

The neatest addition, though, is definitely the utility ship, which is modular to perform EVA pilot retrieval, hull repair, personnel transport, and even (in emergencies) boarding actions assistance roles.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Damnnnnn, that looks awesome!!!

Wonder where this puts the solo idris crowd now. This kind of thing is only to he expected when you start seeing concepts so early in their development phase.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Very cool change indeed. It's nice to see a little creep up into the smaller combatant classes like frigates.

I wouldn't worry too much about the solo Idris players. Really, anything up to a destroyer ought to be somewhat solo-able for the universe to make sense. We know that large capital ships like battlecruisers and large carriers exist, so just like in the real world smaller combatants like frigates need to be able to conduct independent operations in support of major battle fleet elements. Even if players don't have massive battle fleets, the NPC Navy should theoretically be able to do that stuff to make the world consistent.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Is that a third active hornet with a 4th back up one?

Well, I've seen the Idris WIP before when it originally appeared in Jump Point, but now I can share it with the rest of you guys... all 88 glorious pages!

That's two Jump Point's worth of WIP articles mashed into one photo gallery, catching you guys up to what I know about the Idris Corvette -> Frigate development and design.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades