This can be moved but I was looking for the FXJ Penal Frigate. It would not be a new ship just curious if it was published?

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 06:28 pm: Edit

Currently there isn't one (officially), just the D5JX (R3.208) in Mod X1R. The question is if it's an FJX or an FWJX (maybe a special mission for the HFX) …

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 09:39 pm: Edit

While I do consider the discussion of such a ship to be very worthwhile, I've also long been under the impression that during the time of first generation X-ships, there were still plenty of non-X ships out there.

From that, it really makes sense (to me, but I may well be totally off on this) that being assigned to an X-ship is the sort of assignment that would go to "The Best of the Best" from ANY Empire (Nation, Race, etcetera).

WOULD the Klingons make use of a Penal variant of a normally "Elite Ship" for unreliable officers/crew (or for those officers and crew who made mistakes, but were still considered redeemable) when there were still plenty of non-X Penal Ships for such people to redeem themselves aboard?

By Dal Downing (Rambler) on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 04:35 am: Edit

Would they yes, the D5JX is proof of this. I was simply wondering if the SSD was ever done.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 12:38 pm: Edit

Would this be based on the F5-X or the F5W-X? Or where there be one of each?

Anyway, I'll see what I can slap together and give it to SVC if he's interested.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 03:12 pm: Edit

Are these intended to be real ships or conjectural "Unbuilt Variants"? The text description in (R3.208) ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PENAL LIGHT CRUISER (D5JX) suggests that, because X-ship crews were hand-picked to begin with, X-ships had a low percentage of troublemakers so there just wasn't a need for very many X-tech penal ships.

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Due to the generally excellent nature of the crews assigned to advanced technology ships, this ship became something of a problem. The numbers of personnel who would normally be sent to a penal ship, being drawn from a much smaller personnel pool, were insufficient at first to properly man the ship. The result was that for most of the first decade of the ship’s operational life, more than half of all assigned crewmen were in fact sent to the ship as part of a normal rotation.

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By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 09:00 pm: Edit

After the first D5JX was built, noting the crew selection process, one F5(W)JX may be looked at (to cover the SC4 J-class as anything smaller (E4JX anyone?) …