No.

By Randy Green (Hollywood750) on Sunday, August 07, 2022 - 09:33 am: Edit

Shawn, perhaps the best place to find canon material is in the 90% of the in-print material that you already own.

Before my first successful (and I really need to italicize successful!) submission, I read all the Captain's Logs to that point. An absolute wealth of background material. After that, it was easy to buy them as they come out, read the fiction, and refer to them as necessary.

By Shawn Gordon (Avrolancaster) on Tuesday, August 09, 2022 - 12:25 am: Edit

That's a good idea Randy. I think I'll start with everything I already have.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 12:52 pm: Edit

Do the Zosmen fave fighters

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 06:24 pm: Edit

Fave.

You mean like Bling? Rhine stones or sequins?

Racing stripes?

A Zosmen fighter pilot named Librerachi?

Perhaps a starship captain patterned after a famous rock star!?!

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Saturday, August 20, 2022 - 09:59 pm: Edit

I'm 100% on board with some bling-bling Fave Fighter Aces.
Flight suit . . .check
Phaser . . .check
Communicator . . .check
BeDazzler . . .check
Hostiles confirmed. Weapons Free. Style-factor is off the charts, baby! Snap, bang, bam!

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 03:16 pm: Edit

Ejection search checked

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 04:09 pm: Edit

Testing self-destruct sys...

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 06:51 pm: Edit

Wonder what that red button does

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 08:30 pm: Edit

You mean the one with the sign “do not press this button!”

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 09:45 pm: Edit

Yeah that one I thin I think it reverse the neutron flow

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 09:46 pm: Edit

Or it’s part of the temporal stabilizer

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Sunday, August 21, 2022 - 10:21 pm: Edit

Say, I'd be curious to know as well, do the Zosman have fighters? Omega products are on my list of must haves. They just aren't in my pile of do-haves yet.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Thursday, September 01, 2022 - 02:29 pm: Edit

For what it's worth, I posted a few speculative thoughts on what Zosman attrition units (fighters and "volatile warp" PFs) might look like over in this thread.

At present, there are no Zosman fighters or PFs in print, but the playtest Stealth field rules do provide clues as to what kind of movement limitations a given Zosman fighter would be under while operating its own Stealth field. (For example, a warp booster pack does not double the maximum speed a Stealth-ed fighter can move at.)

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Thursday, September 01, 2022 - 05:29 pm: Edit

Can we get a biological description of them as well?

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Friday, September 02, 2022 - 09:28 am: Edit

Pretty sure we covered their pilots: Liberace-looking, bedazzled hellions with the attitude to back it up.
It might be worth noting that the last 3 letters of Liberace is ACE.
Coincidence? I don't think so!

By Dal Downing (Rambler) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 03:47 am: Edit

Okay I have been wondering and obviously it is not a new ideal. But the Fed CVo, was there ever a design study on what a Refits would look like. Things like giving the Saucer a CB or BCH rework? What about a BCG style neck turrent. Was an addition Phaser-3/DroneG upgrade considered?

By Dal Downing (Rambler) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 03:51 am: Edit

Curiousity point 2. We know the various Planetary Nation Gaurds got old Cruiser and Destroyers. What about Frigates and Corvettes if so can we see a class history or at least location of some of these units.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 08:15 am: Edit

I have always wondered what happened to the infamous "F15 Strike Carriers." AFAIK there is ZERO in the history/ scenarios that indicate if they survived, got zorked, refitted, etc.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 09:37 am: Edit

Dal,

Since the CVA is really just the CVO transformed into a DN shape, I would expect the CVO to have the same updates and refits as the CVA. I mean really, the only reason the CVO was retired in favor of the CVA was because of the F&E need to be able to convert a DN into a CVA. If there was no F&E, the CVO would still be the CVA.

So ... for the CVO, just take the CVA (and any of its refits and derivatives), remove the center warp engine, and increase the size of the two remaining engines and you are pretty much done.

I doubt you would see anything extravagant on the CVO because if you did, it would already have been done to the CVA.

Mike,

The "F15 Strike Carrier" is just the CVB. I am pretty sure there has already been a CL article on the history of the CVS, which included the CVB. (I am not sure which one, but if I am correct I am sure someone will post where to find it.)

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 09:48 am: Edit

I admit I don't play the Federation that often, but I've always liked the CVB. It provides a squadron of "elite" fighters at a much lower cost than a CVA or even a BCV.

Obviously, you get what you pay for. And a BCV with an F-14 squadron is certainly more powerful than a CVB with an F-15 squadron, but more for the superiority of the BCV itself over the CVB, than for any inherent superiority of the F-14 over the F-15.

Comparing the two fighter types, the advantages are "mixed" with the F-14 superior in some ways and the F-15 superior in others. But assuming comparable "refit levels" for the fighters, a fully kitted-out F-15 aquadron is a bit cheaper than a fully kitted out F-14 squadron, and may be more cost effective in consequence.

By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 11:36 am: Edit

CL52 has the class history of Federation heavy cruisers in general - I'm not at home so I can't confirm if that covers the variants as well or not. Otherwise if there was a Fed strike carrier class history it was prior to CL18.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 02:22 pm: Edit

I double-checked. I was wrong. There has been no class history of the Strike Carrier. At least there is none listed in the CL Index file.

So ... I'm all for a class history of the Federation Strike Carrier and variants. Honestly, it would end up being very cool as it would include all of those wild variants for it that now exist, including the ones with 24 fighters, 12 fighters and heavy fighters, with just F-111s, and not just the CVS and CVB.

I'd love to see that. I fully endorse that request!

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 03:23 pm: Edit

Dal mentioned "What about a BCG style neck turret" on a conceptual refit of the conceptual CVo. Unlike the other items Mike West mentioned in his walkthrough, that neck gunhouse just wouldn't be able to be one of them.

The "flatbed" CVo has no neck - the saucer blends directly into the rear hull. The rear hull does have a pair of large underslung bulges and the gunhouse weapons could conceivably be put on the fronts of them, but the arcs would be partially blocked by the sensor dish post on the saucer, so it would not be a total wash from the DN-based CVA.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 04:03 pm: Edit

To be clear, what I was trying to say was that I didn't think any of the requested upgrades would be done. Basically the CVO is just a differently shaped CVA. So, whatever has been done to the CVA over the years would likely have also been done to the CVO. So, I doubt there would have been any kind of wacko refits for the CVO. Again, it would have just been a differently shaped CVA.

To be honest, if I could go back in time, I would have basically left the original CVA alone and not made it into a DN variant. Instead, I would have introduced an alternative DN-based heavy carrier as an additional design, not a replacement design. At that point the original three CVAs would be of the old design, and all further builds and all upgrades would have been the DN-based heavy carrier. But that is just me.