you guys should post this kind of threads in the modding forum too, I missed it completely (my fault btw, since I check regulary only the modding and the SW one).
I worked recently on a ship that may loosely fit your requests, thought I think bob's (love it) and aldo's are much better.
I was thinking at the colossus: you know, she costed to the gtva a lot in resources and time, wich could have been spent better on dozens of smaller but more useful ships, like the deimos.
The necessity of building a ship like colossus was a psychological necessity after the loose of both the homeplanets, rather than a strategic one.
I imagined what the first reaction at the first sight of a sathanas could be. The discover that the shivans have a ship that can stand, in term of power, a direct confrontation with the colossus.
The point is that if you loose a deimos, it's a big loss but not a tragic one.
If you loose a colossus, instead, you loose your most powerful ship but also all the resources spent to build that ships. A ship like a colossus is more powerful but is also more dangerous.
I imagined the gtva to start developing new strategies, as soon as they realize how much vulnerable they are, and the impossibility to directly facing shivans in a confrontation of powers.
The new strategies will require speed, to make sneak attacks and outmaneuvre the slower shivans ship.
Will require more resistance, to survive enough to get to the weak spots of the shivans ships (the back)
Will require enough power to severely damage the enemy once you get in position.
As soon as those new strategies are developed, they also need, as soon as possible, new ships that can play those roles.
The discover of an entire fleet of Sathanas, force GTVA to build those new ships in an hurry.
For this resons they used a prototype of a new beam super cannon, originally designed for planetary defenses.
This cannon is huge, and require an incredible amount of energy.
There aren't unfourtunately power cores with the desired energy and size, a new power core will require time and resources that they don't have, for this reasons they decided to use more power cores, taken from existing ships.
To avoid cooling problems they placed those powercores partially outside the main hull, with the possibility to remove and substitute them easily.
The result is "a big gun with big engines", with the bridges, the decks, depots etc etc attached later and externally.
The main cannon should be able to destroy a Sathanas in three blasts, causing severe damages at any shot.
Depending by the power cores (the first prototype of this ship will use power cores taken from other ships, later versions will use more efficent cores designed for this purpose) this ship should be able to to fire from 1 to 2 shots without recharging, almost depleting all the power. To recharge the power enough for another blast takes from 5 to 10 minutes.
The ship will be almost defenseless to attacks of smaller capships, for obvious reasons, but will be relatively well defended against fighter attacks.
As I said it's not designed as a torp-ship, but...
Also this is only a WIP, I was adding all the superstructures, and there are some things I'd like to change, expecially the beginning of the engine sections.
I stopped working at this model one week ago due to a partial creative crisis (and a complete lazyness crisis), so suggestions are welcome.
