[TECH/RFC] Gagarin-class starship (REVISED)

[Cobalt Greywalker]

Personally. I'd increase the point-defence arrays to at least 4 (dorsal and ventral port and starbord) and probably up to eight (add nose, tail, and outboard both wingtips), and add a rear facing launcher. But that's just me.

I thought about that, and it may go up in a revision. Thing is, Mal is at best a reluctant soldier, and the idea of *arming* EXFOR spacecraft is anathema to him. Still, things might change.

I was thinking LESS about blowing up ships, and more about COVERAGE for your point-defense arrays. The rear facing launcher is for those nasty tailgaters.

Given their launch dates, I expect no Gagarin-class ship will be involved in Serenity Valley?

Hm.. when was Serenity Valley again? Mid-August? The Shepard will still be in the graving docks, but Gagarin might show up as part of a relief force if nothing else.

Ah. Me is enlightened.

WRT MediaWiki markup: I assume you're occasionally playing with this still. The shipbox construct looks interesting IMO.

Yeah, I keep poking at it here and there. The shipbox stuff was sparked by my frustration with having to build a table completely from scratch each time I wanted to do an infobox in Dokuwiki. Getting the template to work was a pain in the ass, but once it was ready it simplified vehicle writeups immensely.

I take it there's no chance of porting it to DokuWiki? MediaWiki sounds more complex to set up but more flexible to use. Argh, six of one, half dozen of the other I guess.