found a use for the ex-Sollie SD.

namelessfly wrote:I am reminded of how the United Nations was appropriately repurposed in DYDEE TOWN GIRL. The SLN SDs could be converted into space going brothels.

namelessfly wrote:

namelessfly wrote:I am reminded of how the United Nations was appropriately repurposed in DYDEE TOWN GIRL. The SLN SDs could be converted into space going brothels.

Captured SLN personel could be impressed into service as brothel workers.

namelessfly wrote:I am reminded of how the United Nations was appropriately repurposed in DYDEE TOWN GIRL. The SLN SDs could be converted into space going brothels.

HB of CJ wrote:Something that I just thought of is what about all the accompanying light Sollie captured navy units? What about all of THEM? It would be tempting to peel off some for some nasty purpose by agencies unknown.

Storm From The Shadows
Chapter Forty-six
wrote:Aside from those two units, she'd left the rest of Byng's ships in New Tuscany with Sigbee. She'd seen no reason to try to take any more of them with her, for several reasons, including the fact that the newer Manticoran designs didn't provide a lot of redundant personnel to make up passage crews for prize vessels. Besides that, she'd quickly come to the conclusion that there was no particular point in trying to refit them for Manticoran use. They were clearly inferior do anything presently in Alliance service, and the expense and effort to bring such manpower-intensive designs up to something like current standards could be far more profitably applied to other ends.

She'd considered scuttling them, and under accepted interstellar law, she would have been entirely within her rights to do so. In the end, though, she'd decided that actually scuttling them might be a case of pouring unnecessary salt into a wound. Nothing she could do was going to make the SLN happy with her, but sailing off into the sunset with every one of their ships, or blowing them up in orbit, was only likely to piss them off even worse. Not that she was any too sure that what she'd ended up doing would make them any happier. Eighty percent of their ships and ninety-five percent of their personnel were still there, and both ships and people were pretty much physically intact, but before leaving, Michelle's boarding parties had deliberately triggered those ships' internal security charges . . . which had reduced all of the surviving battlecruisers' central computer nets to so much slagged molecular circuitry, as inert and useless as a solid block of granite. No one would be reprogramming those computers; it was going to take physical replacement if the Sollies ever wanted one of those ships to get underway under her own power again. That wouldn't necessarily take them permanently out of service, but it would take months to get a suitably equipped repair fleet all the way out to New Tuscany. In fact, it might actually be cheaper and faster in the long run to send out a fleet of tugs and tow them back to a Solarian shipyard.

Lord Skimper wrote:Again this isn't a problem for cruise ship setup. Personally after having the crap kicked out of you and then being told to surrender computers intact or they will finish the job while you are on board, you would leave the computers intact. Not like there are any secrets there. Your best tech is worthless.

We also know that Crandells SD's were carefully analysed, by Manticore, Haven and the Andie's. Halo II etc...

130 SD themed cruise ships, with 70 parts ships. Can easily with time be setup with beached Captains freighter Captains, Freighter crews, and some ex-patient military to act as "guides" for the 450-500,000 passengers who want to know what this whole SD ship is like. Plus all the newsies.

Could also be used for semi secure personnel movements that nobody is going to raid / bother. These ships make aircraft carriers look like tiny tincans. Yet pack on the same crew numbers on board. Plus the terminus makes the travel links much faster and time on board more bearable. The Sollie SD are not bad ships, they are just totally outclassed. Everything on them is top notch. These are not derelict ships that are run by pirates. They are not WWII left over BB. They are up to date 1990's tech to our 2010's with civie refit to modern hotel shopping mall levels, modern being 2000 years from now modern.

We would be astonished at how advanced they are. Heck even Honour during her first visit to Grayson would have suggested fleeing and surrender if one of these showed up. Let alone 130.

SWM wrote:

Lord Skimper wrote:Again this isn't a problem for cruise ship setup. Personally after having the crap kicked out of you and then being told to surrender computers intact or they will finish the job while you are on board, you would leave the computers intact. Not like there are any secrets there. Your best tech is worthless.

We also know that Crandells SD's were carefully analysed, by Manticore, Haven and the Andie's. Halo II etc...

130 SD themed cruise ships, with 70 parts ships. Can easily with time be setup with beached Captains freighter Captains, Freighter crews, and some ex-patient military to act as "guides" for the 450-500,000 passengers who want to know what this whole SD ship is like. Plus all the newsies.

Could also be used for semi secure personnel movements that nobody is going to raid / bother. These ships make aircraft carriers look like tiny tincans. Yet pack on the same crew numbers on board. Plus the terminus makes the travel links much faster and time on board more bearable. The Sollie SD are not bad ships, they are just totally outclassed. Everything on them is top notch. These are not derelict ships that are run by pirates. They are not WWII left over BB. They are up to date 1990's tech to our 2010's with civie refit to modern hotel shopping mall levels, modern being 2000 years from now modern.

We would be astonished at how advanced they are. Heck even Honour during her first visit to Grayson would have suggested fleeing and surrender if one of these showed up. Let alone 130.

Skimper, it can't work. A superdreadnought has two or three fusion generators, each of which requires more crew than an entire civilian freighter. Remember when Honor used warships to carry escapees from Hades? Each ship required hundreds of crewmen just to keep them running, without even trying to man weapons or defenses. That's ten times as many crew as a freighter. And maintaining the systems is vastly more expensive than a freighter. It would be impossible to run these ships at a profit. Besides, it would take massive renovations to make the accomodations acceptable to paying customers.