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This is the fore-page for the Liquid Systems Nano Yard© ship showcase!
Are you looking for a smaller ship that has all the things you need? Well, too bad, we specialize in making small ships that have one specific thing you need. Everything else gets left behind as we attempt (and generally succeed) to bring you things that fill your niche needs and scratch that itch you've been meaning to get too but never do.
Where mentioned all sizes are in the format of Length x Width x Height.
The Flea.
A nano-drone fitting in a mere 7 x 7 x 5, the Flea is a versatile chassis with multiple variants and will gladly fulfill any role you desire. Regardless of variant every Flea model drone aims to achieve the following;
//2 pack of guided Overdrive equipped Missiles, w/ minimal cost.
The original Flea aims to please with it's incredibly low starting cost, and excellent damage / cost ratio. Don't let it's cute exterior fool you, the Flea bites hard with it's guided Overdrive missiles each dealing 900 damage.
//Beams w/ Overdrive + Missiles w/ Overdrive
Are anti-missile systems a pain? Does it bother your swarm when they can no longer attack freely? Then the Phaser Flea is the answer! With it's primary damage dealing beam weapons, the Phaser flea can freely attack targets with impunity, no need to worry about those pesky AMS turrets any more
uy a Phaser flea (or 20) today!
//Rapid Fire OD Rockets
Shield-Rechargers got you feeling down? Just can't make a dent in his armor? Be troubled no longer friends, the Angry Flea is the drone you've been looking for. 2 Rapid fire overdrive rocket launchers are here to say goodbye regen and [Accent = "Scarface"]Say hello to my little friends![/Accent]
//Super powered version of the original
Original Flea just not enough? Do you need moar powa?! Then try our new Quad Flea. Double the missiles means 4x the FUN.
//4x chainguns and Twin OD shotguns
Are other drones getting in the way? Do you wish you had a proverbial drone-swatter? We heard your call for Drone on Drone warfare and have responded with the most technologically advanced, pineapple driven, Flea we've developed to date. The Brawler Flea features four rapid fire chain-guns designed to spew hot Anti-matter in the face of oncoming missile hordes. As if that wasn't enough we also threw on 2 overdrive shotguns with the express intent of creating the largest area denial we could. You asked for it, and it's here, the Brawler Flea.
The Dune. (In need of updates)
Light drone carrier and overall support ship. The Dune is capable of mounting a pair of standard 9 x 9 x 9 turrets (Sold Separately), as well as 4 racks of our latest and greatest seller Flea Drones. This light carrier is designed to achieve a swarm effect on a poor man's budget of less than 10,000,000 credits and it works! The Dune includes the following on purchase;
-To Be Named- (Mothballed)
The ____ is our latest carrier design. It refits the old L.A.Z.Y.F.A.R.T. freighter into a modestly shielded jump carrier with a decent payload of Flea drones. Mind you this is not a combat vessel, despite the pretty blue toaster beams.
<This ship is a work in progress. More photos and content will be added as I get to it, eventually, whenever I feel there's enough pineapple lying about to actually get my wife excited enough to leave me alone for an hour or two...>
The above ship has been mothballed until further funds has been devoted to our aging retro-refits department.
Classifications:
Our system here at Liquid Systems is not based on size at all. We instead have chosen to ignore size, leaving that to the dimensions of the ship itself, and instead use an informative scheme that tells us what the ship is meant to do. We realize that every ship can be used in every way, and that not all ships are created equally. However a simple scheme should be able to inform the purchasing party of what the ship is generally good at.
Ship Classifications
The Classifications of our ships are in the following format;
xX(x)#-##
The first letter.
This letter is one of the following options, and indicates the armoring on the ship. This allows everyone interested in using said vessel to know immediately whether or not it can take a direct hit and survive.
These indicate the specific role of the vessel, whether it is intended for direct combat or just a support role. It will be indicated by one(two) of these letters;
-Ss - Swarm Support, drone meant to disrupt, disable, or reduce a ships capacity to fight
-Sz - Swarm Specialty, drone is some random combination of wackyness
More may be added as we come up with them. For the most part this encompasses just about everything though.
The First number-
Indicates Range of the vessel and whether or not it has combat potential.
0- Non-combatant OR point blank range, bombs, pulsars, etc.
1- Close Range Combatant, can take a hit and return fire. Shorter ranges means in your face.
2- Long Range Combatant, prefers to attack from extreme distance to avoid damage. Often meant as an alpha strike ship.
The Last numbers-
These indicate the version of the ship, literally whatever mk_ it would be. This is just for information regarding how many have lapsed or gone by. It's more for my records than anything else.
Example;
-01 is the first in the series
-04 would be the fourth in the series or ____ mk4/mk IV
Downloads!
Links will be posted here at the bottom of the original Post. If anyone would like to try one of my designs and it's NOT posted already, please post on this thread and I'll upload it ASAP. Unless noted, these are all under the community content pages as well.
Are you looking for a smaller ship that has all the things you need? Well, too bad, we specialize in making small ships that have one specific thing you need. Everything else gets left behind as we attempt (and generally succeed) to bring you things that fill your niche needs and scratch that itch you've been meaning to get too but never do.
Where mentioned all sizes are in the format of Length x Width x Height.
The Flea.
A nano-drone fitting in a mere 7 x 7 x 5, the Flea is a versatile chassis with multiple variants and will gladly fulfill any role you desire. Regardless of variant every Flea model drone aims to achieve the following;
- A low price-tag of less than 50k! (not including tax)
- A Shielded systems core with easy access to core, faction, and AI blocks
- Modular weapons capable of easily swapping out
- Be deployed from the smallest possible docking units available (< 7 x 7 x 7 in size)
//2 pack of guided Overdrive equipped Missiles, w/ minimal cost.
The original Flea aims to please with it's incredibly low starting cost, and excellent damage / cost ratio. Don't let it's cute exterior fool you, the Flea bites hard with it's guided Overdrive missiles each dealing 900 damage.
//Beams w/ Overdrive + Missiles w/ Overdrive
Are anti-missile systems a pain? Does it bother your swarm when they can no longer attack freely? Then the Phaser Flea is the answer! With it's primary damage dealing beam weapons, the Phaser flea can freely attack targets with impunity, no need to worry about those pesky AMS turrets any more
uy a Phaser flea (or 20) today!
//Rapid Fire OD Rockets
Shield-Rechargers got you feeling down? Just can't make a dent in his armor? Be troubled no longer friends, the Angry Flea is the drone you've been looking for. 2 Rapid fire overdrive rocket launchers are here to say goodbye regen and [Accent = "Scarface"]Say hello to my little friends![/Accent]
//Super powered version of the original
Original Flea just not enough? Do you need moar powa?! Then try our new Quad Flea. Double the missiles means 4x the FUN.
//4x chainguns and Twin OD shotguns
Are other drones getting in the way? Do you wish you had a proverbial drone-swatter? We heard your call for Drone on Drone warfare and have responded with the most technologically advanced, pineapple driven, Flea we've developed to date. The Brawler Flea features four rapid fire chain-guns designed to spew hot Anti-matter in the face of oncoming missile hordes. As if that wasn't enough we also threw on 2 overdrive shotguns with the express intent of creating the largest area denial we could. You asked for it, and it's here, the Brawler Flea.
The Dune. (In need of updates)
Light drone carrier and overall support ship. The Dune is capable of mounting a pair of standard 9 x 9 x 9 turrets (Sold Separately), as well as 4 racks of our latest and greatest seller Flea Drones. This light carrier is designed to achieve a swarm effect on a poor man's budget of less than 10,000,000 credits and it works! The Dune includes the following on purchase;
- 4 Racks of the latest Flea Drone models Free of charge (some additional fees apply see manual for details)
- Our trademark Push-Beam Launch system
- An easily accessible core area
- Decorative and Functional Interior
- Comfortably walk-able pathways to both turrets (don't mind the holes, they're decorative)
- Multiple external cameras
- A modest price tag of ___ credits
- Fully modular shields and enclosed reactor bays
- An industrial cutting laser for all your space-toast needs.
-To Be Named- (Mothballed)
The ____ is our latest carrier design. It refits the old L.A.Z.Y.F.A.R.T. freighter into a modestly shielded jump carrier with a decent payload of Flea drones. Mind you this is not a combat vessel, despite the pretty blue toaster beams.
<This ship is a work in progress. More photos and content will be added as I get to it, eventually, whenever I feel there's enough pineapple lying about to actually get my wife excited enough to leave me alone for an hour or two...>
//External Views
The above ship has been mothballed until further funds has been devoted to our aging retro-refits department.
Classifications:
Our system here at Liquid Systems is not based on size at all. We instead have chosen to ignore size, leaving that to the dimensions of the ship itself, and instead use an informative scheme that tells us what the ship is meant to do. We realize that every ship can be used in every way, and that not all ships are created equally. However a simple scheme should be able to inform the purchasing party of what the ship is generally good at.
Ship Classifications
The Classifications of our ships are in the following format;
xX(x)#-##
The first letter.
This letter is one of the following options, and indicates the armoring on the ship. This allows everyone interested in using said vessel to know immediately whether or not it can take a direct hit and survive.
- l - light armor, minimal standard armor if any. Hull consists mainly of basic hull.
- m - medium armor, standard armor all around, no advanced, minimal basic hull. Includes up to 2 layers of standard armor.
- h - heavy armor, anything beyond medium armor, 3+ layers of standard armor, or advanced armor.
These indicate the specific role of the vessel, whether it is intended for direct combat or just a support role. It will be indicated by one(two) of these letters;
- E - escort class, meant to provide supporting fire to larger or less armed ships.
- C - carrier class, meant to provide transport, maintenance, and support to smaller ships
- R - Ranger/Raider/Rover class, purpose is direct assault, lounging, and general do-everything solo play. These ships are meant to be all purpose combat vessels, capable of operating alone or in groups for extended periods of time.
- S - fast attack/Swarm class, small ships meant only to operate in large numbers or as a hit & run vessel. Almost always limited to l/m armor, will rarely include h armor.
-Ss - Swarm Support, drone meant to disrupt, disable, or reduce a ships capacity to fight
-Sz - Swarm Specialty, drone is some random combination of wackyness
- F - Friendly, Civilian / non-combat support ships. Freighters, colony ships, etc.
More may be added as we come up with them. For the most part this encompasses just about everything though.
The First number-
Indicates Range of the vessel and whether or not it has combat potential.
0- Non-combatant OR point blank range, bombs, pulsars, etc.
1- Close Range Combatant, can take a hit and return fire. Shorter ranges means in your face.
2- Long Range Combatant, prefers to attack from extreme distance to avoid damage. Often meant as an alpha strike ship.
The Last numbers-
These indicate the version of the ship, literally whatever mk_ it would be. This is just for information regarding how many have lapsed or gone by. It's more for my records than anything else.
Example;
-01 is the first in the series
-04 would be the fourth in the series or ____ mk4/mk IV
Downloads!
Links will be posted here at the bottom of the original Post. If anyone would like to try one of my designs and it's NOT posted already, please post on this thread and I'll upload it ASAP. Unless noted, these are all under the community content pages as well.
- The Dune -Dated, needs work
- A sample Pack of the latest Flea Designs - Dated, needs work
- Kuwaga Heavy Drone - Up to Date!
- Ju Ga Heavy Drone - Up to Date!
- Kabuto Heavy Drone - Up to Date!
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not too thrilled with that. I like it to be pretty as well as functional. :p Thanks for the suggestion, it's definitely the right size, just need to tweak it a bit. 
Considering mounting some Kabutos directly for support and using logic gates to launch once damage has been taken.
