[Vasudan Admiral]

an orestes wouldn't have been able to help the colossus at all, no.
here's part of the tech description (on the site)

"The Orestes project grew as a direct result of the Collosus project, which proved tragically the danger of having damaged or disabled vessels on the battlefield. The GTR Orestes is a capital ship repair vessel, designed to get in, and repair or rescue damaged or disabled ships from a battlefield."

so it's not a supermassive construction/repair ship, just a rescue/support ship.

[.::Tin Can::.]

 That thing is more like a flying Capital Ship. Sweetness! A target I must admit, but sweetness nonetheless. However, you could basically just give an Orion big repair arms as an upgrade and call it a repair ship. This bad boy is rather well-armed for a ship of its calliber. But anyway, I think it would be neat if command was like:

"We are sending in a repair ship! Guard that vessel, pilots!"

And then, this HUGE ship comes in and kicks ass and repairs. Sweet...

[redmenace]

imagine how it could have helped in the case if the NTF Trinity. Instead of discovery coming in and not being able to help defend the trinity. It might be nice to have these ships availiable. However, I am not sure how fast they could respong to calls in reality like the before mentioned incident.

My coments about a massive repair ship were in reference to some one else's comments about a massive 5km repair ship

[.::Tin Can::.]

It would have been too hazardous to deploy in the nebula. the GTVA was very sketchy on why they didnt want to send TOO much in, too fast, so, they just sent in the Aquitane to "check it out"

[Vasudan Admiral]

Originally posted by redmenace
imagine how it could have helped in the case if the NTF Trinity. Instead of discovery coming in and not being able to help defend the trinity. It might be nice to have these ships availiable. However, I am not sure how fast they could respong to calls in reality like the before mentioned incident.

My coments about a massive repair ship were in reference to some one else's comments about a massive 5km repair ship

ah, ok. i assumed you were talking about the orestes. by the 5km, do you men the one TrashMan mentioned?

and yeah, the trinity mission is a great example of the type of situation it could be used in, although Tin Can is right in that the GTVA probably wouldn't have deployed it if they had such a ship anyway.

in regards to response time, i'd assume they arrive fairly quickly if they're in the same system, since reinforcements always seem to arrive pretty quick, as did the galatea in one FS1 mission, and the orestes has good engines

[Singh]

wouldnt it be easier to create a fleet of repair drones and smaller launch/control platforms for them? At least when you get attacked, the drone's lasers can be used to some effect - not to mention they have the advantage of numbers and the fact taht they are unmanned.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Now you guys are just talking about a whole bunch of really big ships with big capabilities that we really dont need, cept for a large repair vessel.

[Shinobi]

Originally posted by Vasudan Admiral
it is second on my priority list tho.

It Better Be

[Vasudan Admiral]

it is. i've just been really busy with school work recently

and...errr, Tin Can,  no one said anything about really big ships or big capabilities since your previous post. the only mention of anything large was "by the 5km, do you mean the one TrashMan mentioned?"
other than that i was talking about the orestes and Singh was talking about drones, which i wouldn't imagine to be very large

in regards to the use of drones, well, you could go with that, but i'm not entirely sure how you would go about it in-game.

[.::Tin Can::.]

If it really WAS 5km long, I dont think command could use it for emergency situations, since it would be a sitting duck if it was deployed right out into the open durring a battle to dock with a ship.

However, talk of drones, and 2 beam cannons on there sure tell me that it just might have a little bit of "overdose" going on there.

[Ghostavo]

If you're going to use ships of that size to repair, why not make it a tow ship instead of a repair ship?

Same example about the Trinity... the ship arrives, "envelops" (better word? like in the beggining of StarWars ep IV) the Trinity, and leaves!!

[redmenace]

well if it were 5km long is would have some defenses on it aswell.

[Vasudan Admiral]

Tin Can, the orestes has ONE aaaf on it, as i said before. no anticap beams at all. the other 3 turrets are flak and standard terran turrets.

as it seems that some people are a little confused, let me try to clear it up a bit.

the orestes is not a mobile shipyard, and it most certainly not 5km long or anything near it. it is 509 meters long, including the antenna. it can function as a tow ship if needbe due to the engines, but is effectively just a support ship for capital vessels.

the only 5km ship i've seen mentioned here is TrashMan's Integrity shown in some really old thread and on Noise's campaign site down the bottom of this page:
http://www.geocities.com/noiseball2000/shipweap.html

any better?

[redmenace]

we were talking hypothetically. that all. no more. we all can see that the orestes has very limited weaponry as it should. the 5km ship I was refering to would only have some more significant DEFENSIVE weaponry(such as flak and aaafb) and even then not a whole lot. more or less to help protect against warheads.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Yes VA, that clears up a lot. Thank you.

[TrashMan]

Redmenace is right.

The integrity (5km {or 6...can't remember}long repair ship) has one HUGE repair bay on it's belly and two side hangarbays. It can carry repair drones, supply craft and some defense fighters.
As far as it's armament goes it has AAAf, Flak Turrets and some standard Terran Turrets. It's not heavyily armoured, but it's relatively fast.
It's designed to operate behind the frontlines.
B.t.w. - Noise..that pic of the Integrity sucks....you should put in a view from below...

[Vasudan Admiral]

Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
Yes VA, that clears up a lot. Thank you.

Glad it helped

and redmenace, yep, i knew what you meant, and you are correct.
the previous post was mainly for TC and anyone else getting confused.
(i was getting a little confused myself - probably what happens when mixing a discussion of 2 different types of ships at once )

[Shinobi]

Meh, another brick

[Flipside]

hehehe The plan is that the attackers eyes go so skewiff staring at all the panelling that they misjudge distances and fly into it accidentally

btw, I never noticed that Flash Movie by Carl in your siggy before, that's bloody good, all it needs is a Freespace version of 'We Got Deathstar!'.

Oh, and in case you are wondering, or haven't seen it yet.....

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_1403

[TrashMan]

Say, Noise...now that DOTA is scrapped I might help you even more.....
Whitelight is currently pathing several good ones (Mammoth 1&2, Sizif, Lancer and some others) and I have the Phoenix(fixed texture), Armageddon and Claymore ready to go...

I might ever re-do the Integrity and Galileo (add more details)..

@Singh - You say brick, I say beutifull... It's a mobile shipyard, not some sleek fighter beauty queen...but I will add more detail to it anyway...