Hydran Tug and LTT
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By Tony Downs (Whitetyger009) on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 09:33 am: Edit

since i am not sure where i should really put this i thought here would be a good place.

i am wondering why the hydrans use tugs with an "internal pallet" when so many other races do not? fed, klingons, kizin, lyran, romulan, and even the orions use tugs that move 2 pods/pallets. i can understand limiting the hellbore combat pallets that can be carried but why the internal pallet?

any possibility of a conjectural design that is more equivlent to other tugs/ltts?

By Jim Davies (Mudfoot) on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 06:37 pm: Edit

Is there any need other than aesthetic objections? The Hydrans are known for some frankly stupid designs, so the Caravan is by no means out of character.

By Tony Downs (Whitetyger009) on Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 08:11 pm: Edit

what stupid designs?

my objection is not that the caravan exhists, but rather that they never built or designed a tug or ltt that is more on par with other races.

for the most part the hydrans have some very awesome ship designs.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 11:59 pm: Edit

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what stupid designs?

Uh, say the Horse & Trailer. Those have to be two of the crappiest designs in all of SFB. They are supposed to be war cruisers, but they barely qualify to be light cruisers.

Then, you can always move on to the more general issue of why they decided to shackle two-thirds of their fleet with the worst "heavy weapons" in the Alpha Sector.

But, back to the main issue. While you don't say it, I am assuming your question really is, "Why doesn't the Hydran tug have heavy weapons like the other empires?"

The sarcastic answer is because, if they did, they would likely have put fusion beams on it and, then, what is the point?

The real answer is that some empires, the Hydrans among them, decided that their tugs/LTTs should be focused on "tugging" and not have destroyer or cruiser armaments. That's just how it worked out.

Quite frankly, the Caravan is a much more robust and substantial design than either the Gorn or Federation designs.

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