From the Serendipity page, "to test the effectiveness of Aetheric weaponry"
You say ICly
ICly, to study the limits of Aetheric weapons and generators, but
Aetheric Weapons are a proven technology, and anyone who uses them finds them pretty darn effective.
And the Aetheric Beam Cannon Array was approved in YE 31, and we are at the close of YE32
So I find myself wondering what testing of Aetheric Weaponry really means here. There have been various ships and structures to carry as many if not more Aether Arrays.
And saying that the ship is going to run out of energy?
(Very B5 Excaliburish)
From the wiki
meaning that one or two heavy volleys from the main cannons can leave the ship out of enough power to run for minutes at a time,
Despite the weapons being rated to fire twice a minute, any attempts to do so will only result in the ship shutting itself off
You do not provide enough details, Which makes too convenient to ignore. If you want this limitation it needs to be spelled out better. From your second entry one could construe it to say, okay you can't find the guns every thirty seconds. But nothing wrong with firing them once a minute for 30 SDR
Taking the slowest firing cycle for the Plumeria
Spread SDR 5 Once every 45 seconds
The Excalibur had it very clearly written.
Firing this titanic weapon drains all the ship's power and the "Excalibur" is unable to maneuver, fire weapons or use long-range scanners for approximately one minute afterward.
And further you say this about the Main Weapons
This limits the amount of targets the Serendipity can fire upon to three.
Not much of limitation when you consider it still has
OI-Z3C Space Missiles: 560, ADR 4 - No mention of where there are fired from, or how many can be fired at a time. I am presuming its not all 560 at once.
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Heavy Laser turret 5, SDR 3 - No location as where they are indicated in the wiki.
For something that is supposed to be a test bed, its extremely over armed? Why does a test bed which technically would be taken from the ship yards out to a test range, run though various tests, then brought back to analyze the data need things like 24 Scimitars.
And hey, here is the solution to their problem, install bigger generators or take out some of the hundreds of missiles and the fighters and install a third generator. voila no more power problem.
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