Apate, Ares-Classed Predator

[Nootau]

This is one of my few successful stealth hunting vessels. It is energy stable while using OCx10 Cloak/Radar Jammer while in moving. This is an Ares-Classed vessel, weighing in at 563 Mass. I am not sure how to advance her closer to the limit of the Ares weight limit of 600 without simply being wasteful or harmful for her design/purpose. Does anyone have any ideas?

Defenses
From the need to be light weight, the shielding array is on the weaker end. It supports 37.25k shields capasity and a 1,536 recharge. The pirmary defense is in fact not being seen until it is ready to strike.

Mobility
This vessel is at the near the edge of the Ares-class weight limit, though the ship is swift using 966.6 thrust to accellerate and gain possition on potential prey quickly.

Weapony
Primary
Penta medium AMC arrays along the nose fire at an adjusted 200.8 power per shot with a brief reload of 224.9ms. Within each pylon is a pair of large AMC arrays firing at 403.2 power per shot with an even shorter 109.9ms reload time. (The settings that I have use are: Dmg: 45%, Dist: 5%, Reload: 45%, Spd: 5%) This combination up offers up just over 19,000 damage per second.

Secondary
Three sets of twin BB missiles, with some adjusting, the missiles fly at offset speeds, having the more damage focused missiles connecting first. The primary missiles impact for 204.4 damage, allowing the pair to rip through Hardened hull, allowing the following four missiles to gut the target effortlessly

Screenshots

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[Nootau]

I am trying to work on the vessel\'s appearance though I am not sure in which way would be best. I have been thinking of changing the Pods to extended, mid-flight wings roughly five to nine thick. Would this help alot or only marginally with the estetics?

Energy Effiency
As for the a few comment of \'Straight lines are not efficent\' I would like someone to link me a design that is more mass efficent than straight 50m long straight lines. Reactor designs which echo the 5x5x5 or 9x9x9 or similar dimentions are mass inefficent while being space efficent.

Wedges (Hull in eneral)
Is not a real option. This vessel is built for a covert-ops role. Hull, wedges and courners all add mass which increase stealth cost in energy by 150e/s per block placed. It is not that I don\'t like wedges, I would rather give it a smooth finish but it is just not practical/possible in the slightest.

 

[Borealis]

Sounds like some sort of ship run by apes. :P

 

[chiefh2o]

wings would make this much more appealing than the pods. how stable is the cloak/jam? ive noticed alot of your larger ships tend to have issues keeping them consistantly on. the armaments and shielding looks good. i love that the thrust is much more than the mass. so often you have cloaking/jamming ships that just throw on a quarter of the mass thrust and call it good. i wouldnt mind having your blueprint. your design seems alot easier to modify then the other handful of cloakers ive found with functionality in mind.