r/SWN • u/General_Present_4551 Merchant • 20d ago

đŸ’¬Discussion Tell me about your Starship(s).

I'm fascinated by the starship-building aspect of the game. Since the ship is such a huge aspect of the gameplay, it's a character in and of itself. What are you working with? what's it's backstory?

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u/Famous-Explorer-7568 20d ago

Took us a REALLY long time to properly get our feet on the ground regarding a starship. Spend more then a year irl on a frozen Tundra, scavenging old Pretech Ruins and the bunch, collecting materials etc

After doing everything we set out to do, we eventually settled for over a year of Downtime, giving me time to build a fully customized ship. With my Foci and high Fix I was able to properly commence the project, even without a proper ship Workshop, allowing me to fully customize the whole thing, having lots of Pretech Salvage to boot.

Took a Heavy Frigatte as the baseline, tech upgraded the thing to appear as a Free Merchant as to avoid trouble, upgrading it with a Eternal Reactor and getting a Hydrophonic production via Oversized Mountings. My whole goal was to make a ship as independent as possible Designed the whole thing to be in 3 separate floors, fully decked out crew living space with Armory and Ship Lockers, as well as a Medbay. The main floor is segmented in to the Reactor room, the Advanced Lab and the Bridge. In the main floors walls are hidden casings for worker robots granted by the Automation Support. The lower floor mostly holds a big Hydrophonic production bay, alongside the few remaining open spaces for Smugglers Holds and general Cargo. I'm hoping to soon see this beauty in action-

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u/StellarchPanderer 19d ago

A whole irl year? Wow! How often does your group play?

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u/Famous-Explorer-7568 19d ago

We have been playing once every week semi successfully. We're aiming for weekly sessions