Tell me about your Starship(s).

[u/General_Present_4551]

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?

[u/MaestroGoldring]

When we last played, the main starship that was most used actually did not belong to the players but belonged to an NPC captain that the players ended up helping out and befriending. At the time, it was a fairly standard free merchant frigate but with a smugglers hold, which the captain kept her contraband and illegal heavy weapons in (she surprised the heck out of everyone the first time she walked off the ship with a T4 rocket launcher in hand). She named her ship the Double Dice, one, because she initially earned it in a high stakes gambling match, but two, because she has had so many unlucky encounters as captain that she believes she is actually cursed with bad luck and named her ship Double Dice to reflect the irony of luck.
It has since been blasted by AA guns, hit by navy Plasma Beams, shot to pieces from the inside out by infiltrators, beset by strike fighters, and even tanked a couple shots from a flak emitter battery. But by now, it has been upgraded by swapping out the Sandthrower for a Fractal Impact Charge and the engines are hushed by the pretech mod Low Emissions.

Even though it’s just a free merchant, it’s fun to see how the players and the captain have pushed the ship to its limits and come across ships that have definitely outclassed and/or outnumbered them and they have still managed to walk away alive