<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4760274#msg4760274">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 08-06-2011, 23:22:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, one thing I've neglected to mention thus far, out of not wanting to spoil the party, is that you guys actually need to remove the armored prow of the Everest to fit a lance battery on there, since the armored prow component isn't compatable with lances and macrobatteries.  <br/><br/>If I said earlier you can't remove the armored prow, you have my permission to do so, which will free up some space anyway, and give the Everest distinctly different lines to a typical navy cruiser.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As a third option, we could simply have stripped down the Armored Prow and replaced it with a "Reinforced Prow" that gives +2 armor to the front and adds 1d5 to the ramming damage.  It would keep the lines almost the same... and some serious battle damage to the front, and a lack of adamantite available to finish the repair could explain the difference.  A "Reinforced Prow" takes 3 spaces instead of 4, but doesn't stop you from putting a lance in front... it's pretty much the same thing, only not as thick or heavy.<br/><br/>Not that it's an ideal change, but it's more realistic in an imperial vessel... even an ex-imperial vessel, to keep a ramming prow in front... and it's thematically appropriate, at the least.<br/><br/>Then we would have 1 power and 1 space left over... but the actual changes I would implement would be a bit different.  I'd like the ship to have a better Auger array, and a simple couple changes would give us one.  Going from a Repulsor Void Field to a "Multiple Void Shield Array" would give us 2 power and 0 space left over, then changing from a M–100 Auger Array to a M-201.b would use up that power and get us a +5 to Detection... which, on a ship relying on it's ability to hit stuff at long range, could well be important.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4760447#msg4760447">Quote from: TheGlyphstone on 08-06-2011, 23:54:11</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Those poor pirate raiders are going to be so unpleasantly surprised when we come back to the Nebula riding in a cruiser...</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Of course, the pirates probably have cruisers too.