Firestorm Industries

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    Are you a smuggler extraordinaire looking to outfit your freighter with heavy armaments? Or perhaps the leader of a ragtag band of rebels and/or down-on-your-luck heroes in desperate need of operable warships by any means necissary? Welcome to Firestorm Industries, Ship Refitting Division.

    While our current berths in the Corellian Shipyards lack the facilities for manufacturing purpose-built warships, our engineers are among the finest refitters blackmail and heavy debt can press into indentured servitude.

    Now, I know you're asking yourself, 'sure, you talk a mean game, and you're name-dropping on the shipyards, but the CEC you're not!'. While that may be true, allow me to present to you some of our standard refit packages and see for yourself the quality of a Firestorm Industries ship refit!


    Star Runner corvette/frigate refit package (rev 01)
    Although lacking a hardened hull, it's maneuverability, clustered main guns and turret docks make it a serviceable picket/fighter support ship.



    The Star Runner is merely the model name of the original hull, which started it's service life as a mid-size "ship-to-shore" transport craft, ferrying passengers and cargo to/from large starliners, space station, and capitol ships and groundside. The powerful reactor and engines designed for continual passage into and out of a planets gravity also make them ideal for full-combat maneuvers. Even after bolstering the shield generators (guaranteed to keep the hull intact through at least one ballistic reentry even before our refitters got their hands on it!) and laying the main gun battery the engines still provide a greater than 3:1 thrust/mass ratio!



    Speaking of the main gun battery, we stripped the decks forward of the bridge down to the keel and laid in 3x28 AMC groupings along either side, for a total of 6 forward-firing primary guns. Generously sized primary turret docks* and small secondaries are capable of tripling the Star Runner's overall firepower and allow for rapid, flexible role alterations.



    Star Runner image catalogue: http://imgur.com/a/wQaSw/all
    Blueprint download: http://star-made.org/node/9733

    *turrets not included


    Disclaimer: These vessels are not reproductions of any canon Star Wars ship, nor do I plan on doing any. Firestorm Industries is simply the name for my crafting shops in Star Wars RPs and any references to Star Wars lore are simply a continuation on the theme.
     
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    Greetings to Firestorm from our staff at Triple Diamond Industrial Shipyards. It\'s good to see other budding companies getting their feet wet in the ship-construction field. That is a nice looking vessel too. I like the modular design. Plus, dat thrust/mass ratio. Nice.
     
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    Thank you kindly!

    The engineers inform me that remounting the engines to take into account the altered load balance created by the addition of the main battery should result in even greater efficiency of the engines, and perhaps even free up some mass to upscale the guns and/or shields further.

    tl;dr I\'m still learning the best ways to pack certain blocks together so rev02 of the Star Runner hull refit is in the works.
     
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    Villains, scoundrels and do-gooders, Firestorm Industries is proud to announce that the Star Runner (rev01) refit kit is now available for mass consumption! Swing by the nearest shipyard and inquire about Firestorm Industries standard refit packages to get yours today!
    http://star-made.org/node/9733
     
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    After many days of research, trial and error, and bathing the neighboring berth in mutagenic levels hard gamma, Firestorm Industries is proud to announce the revised refit package for the Star Runner hull.



    By dismounting the engines and reconfiguring the hardpoints our engineers managed to better tune and optimise the engine thrus and make clearance for longer guns. After streamlining power flow from the reactors it was decided there was now enough extra power to overclock the shield generators AND supply two extra guns for the main forward-firing battery!

    Although the Star Runner\'s mass has increased ever so slightly, the retuned engines actually push the thrust-mass ratio to almost 4:1!



    So, a quick summary:
    4:1 t/m
    6x35 forward-firing AMC
    2x28 forward-firing AMC
    2x primary turret battery mount points
    4x secondary turret battery mount points
    60k e/sec power generation
    44k shields

    We here at Firestorm Industries are convinced that the Star Runner (rev 2) is equal, if not superior, to any purpose-built warship of similar size and capable of fulfilling a strike role against capital ships during fleet egagements.

    Hit hard, hit fast.
    Firestorm Industries.

    Blueprint: http://star-made.org/node/9755
     
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    (built for MisterVec\'s design contest here: VFW Ship Design Contest )

    Not long ago a yellowtanium-hulled junker was towed into the Firestorm Industries docks and parked sideways across all of our berths. There was no choice but to strip it down to it\'s component parts to free ourselves from it\'s eye-blinding presence. After disassembly and discarding all the denatured yellowtanium (and other varius unusable parts, which constituted most of the ships bulk), our stockpiles contained enough yellowtainum to build a large corvette hull from scratch.

    And so we did! Behold the Angel-class heavy corvette Angel\'s Punishment



    The Firestorm Industries Angel-class heavy corvette features our patented 6+2 keel-mounted primary battery design, high effeciancy primary engines for 3:1 thrust/mass ratrio, redundant fore bridge, outrigger mounted ancilliary engines, small ship dock (includes cargo transfer pod), crew accomodations for extended deployment including full medbay with regeneration tanks. The armorments also include 5 strategically placed turret hardpoints and shielding equivalent to that of a ship a full size classification larger.

    The crew quarters and docking space are built as modular zones that can be repurposed quickly and easily by any well equipped shipyard, or even by the intrepid Do-It-Yourself smuggler with more free time than good sense.

    After refitting and tuning the primary drives, the overall length stretched to 80m, a little long for a corvette but our design team deferred to the engineers and decided against risking catastrophic engine failure by hacking a few meters off the drives.





    Images galleries:
    Exterior http://imgur.com/a/UNiX4#1
    Interior http://imgur.com/a/SxtaE#0
    WIP shots http://imgur.com/a/Ri9sb#0

    Blueprint Download: http://star-made.org/node/10010

    Hit hard, hit fast.
    Firestorm Industries.