Ohhh I like that. That gives all sort of ideas if you can program a buzz droid or some sort of controller droid for the buzz droids you can make them into smart mines that can be spread around and disable any ships that don't have the right IFF.
Ok again the MC doesn't have an ISD he has a Gladiator to go up against a Lucrehulk battleship with an armament loadout of
If the Tie variants are built with the hyperdrive already then they aren't modded and the Outer Rim made hyperdrives getting the knowledge is not that hard and the life support would help more seeing as standard Tie pilot life support had 8 to 16 hours worth of air.
yes, however they're also extremely massive with enormous storage capacity. You can turn it into a huge cargo transshipment station at a fraction of the cost of operating it as a freighter and put quite a few of its systems into long-term storage. May take several weeks to get those systems back together and running, but it's another resource that doesn't cost nearly as much if most of its systems are mothballed for use as an immobile station.
It really depends on how fast you want the Lucherhulk to move.
You probably don't even need to do a lot of those things to reduce operating costs. Remember that it has both a primary and backup hyperdrive, if it's being used as a semi-mobile base you can shut down and put into long-term storage state the primary hyperdrive and use the much slower but much less energy hungry backup hyperdrive. The main engines and thrusters aren't going to be single units, at that size they are going to be dozens or hundreds of seperate engines and thrusters, a lot of which can be mothballed so that it's running on a fourth or a fifth of the engines and thrusters as during the Clone Wars. As for the droid maintenance and repair facilities those are probably long gone and were stripped during or right after the Clone Wars. The bays for holding dropships, droid fighters, millions of battle droids. Ultimately those are big cargo bays with storage rack systems of immense size and it's neither difficult nor terribly expensive to tear out unneeded storage racks and turn them back into general cargo spaces that can double as pirate docking space.
I doubt that. Tarkin will probably look down on him, but he wouldn't really care about him being popular or liked. Tarkin doesn't care about being liked, he cares about people doing as he says. Now, if Las somehow had such a meteoric rise to the point of gaining Palpatine's favor or even OPERATIONAL SECURITY for producing his new weapons without interference, THAT would piss Tarkin off. He strikes me as a guy who HATES sharing Palpatine's ear; Thrawn and Vader are competition enough in his eyes, he would NOT like another one. Anyone who saw Rogue One knows this is a guy who establishes power over his lessers by TAKING their accomplishments and hard work from them and seeing them impotently grit their teeth, so Palpatine making it so Tarkin isn't allowed to touch Las' system and work would INFURIATE him.
I will say Rogue One is a good movie, but I like the original origin of the Death Star plans better, cause it gave us the mad lad Kyle Katarn.
True. Along with the mad scientist who designed it, Bevel Lemelisk. Then was executed. Then brought back by cloning. Then got executed again and went out like a Chad by telling them to get it it right the second time.
Let's not forget about Raith Sienar who pitched the idea in the first place but didn't want to commit to it knowing how stupid it sounded
Yeah, that sounds like a good combo. I recall Andor only learned about the Death Star from an informant, so Kyle could've been the one who found out and passed it onto him so it would reach the Rebels.
shouldn't be too hard to make a few small changes. I mean look at the difference between an F-16a from the early 80s and a modern F-16L with conformal tanks and all. Given how readily and quickly Star Wars appears to create modified variants of star fighters it shouldn't be too difficult to stretch the thing a meter or so and use the extra space.I-7 Howlrunner
The Incom Corporation I-7 Howlrunner was a short range attack starfighter employed by the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. The Howlrunner was constructed around an aerodynamic fixed-wing structure. Two fins jutted out of the sides of the craft, meant to function as rudimentary...starwars.fandom.com
so a flying brick that seems to be made as a defence craft/interceptor--
''However, the craft was not meant for long space battles or pitched one-on-one combat.''
maybe minda R&D ca make a heavy fighter version
