I'd really like to use a stolen Enhanced Arada or a beam-toting Igazra, but this "stock ships only" rule does make a lot of sense, so I guess an Igazra or an UE Cruiser would be the most logical choice. Then again, virtually all other users use these ship, so that would be kinda boring.
OK, here's my përs. I never tried the ship in-game, and I realize it's never going to be as good as an Igazra or a UE Cruiser, but at least it's innovative.
Name: Spellchecker
Government: Cinga
Location: Anywhere but Voinian territory
Agression: Reasonable
Run: 10%
Ship: Miranu Freighter
Credits: 5,000,000
Shield: 475% (justified below)
Weapons: -2 Defpod Launchers (-10 Defpods), +2 Phased Beams, +1 Zidagar Fighter Bay (+4 Zidagar Fighters), +2 Needle Launchers (+250 Needles).
Grudge: Yes
Escape Pod: Yes
Comm Quote: "You can call me 'Master'."
Hail Quote: "Misspell an alien name and I'll kill you."
I start out with 40 tons of weapons space. Add an Emalgha freighter upgrade and 9 mass expansions and sell the defpods, and you get 290 tons of free space. Yummy!
Put in both Bronev and Dospect armor, leaving 210 tons of space. This adds 150 armor points. However since përses can only modify shield strength, and since armor is much better against most weapons than shields, I translated the armor into shields at a 1.5 ratio (which seems very conservative to me). That's how I get 285 shield points (475%).
Stick in two Zidagar Phased Beams to take advantage of those ten jumps of fuel, then put in a "supercharged" Zidagar fighter bay (as allowed by Flatulence). A regular two-fighter bay is 75 tons, so I assume that a four-fighter bay will be slightly more room-efficient... say, 140 tons. That leaves 30 tons for the two Needle launchers.
-- Cinga
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