Companion new ship class Scavenge

After many many raids buy swift and most all ship crews and mechanic got tired of waiting for research and development to come up with a solution.

So pilot and mechanic alike went to the fleet bone yard.

Take several cruisers, recyclers and probes. apart.

Working for weeks on end to finally developed and launch the first of many scavenge interceptor and lane sweeper.

Able to respond fast enough to catch and with enough sensor arrays to count the sand on the local moons surface..

while the scavenge also features a lower cargo bay made for scooping up debrie fields on the fly to make way for their heavier combat ships

Requirements

impulse :6 hyper space tech :7 shields :8 energy tech :7

cost : 30,000 metal 25,000 crystal deuterium. : 15,000

Base S.I. 55,000

base attack, 350

base shields 75

base speed 9,500

Base cargo capacity 950

debrie hold base cargo capacity 1,100

Base fuel consumption 350

Uses this ship is very well built and suited to intercept spy probes and low profile radar evasive ships .

While clearing narrow attack paths through debrie fields during battle. So cruisers and battle cruisers can move more freely with their light and heavy fighter escorts.

To clarify the scavenge if any ship is involved on the defenders side will only collect debrie

if no enemy ships are present it will take the lower cargo capacity amount of resources.

And has no rapid fire

Quote from DonutZ

Is it too similar to a reaper but not as good?

No and yes.

I should have added this clarification in earlier.

If the scavenger is used in fleet combat with other combat ships.

It will only collect debrie. It's attack strength will be treated same as a probe . Nill atk strength
No different than a numbers buffer that harvests debrie during combat.

When sent out on it's own or in numbers of it's own ship type it will then have it's full attack strength .

The debrie hold is a hard cap at 1,100 units Also.

Quote from Shinjite

Another idea:

Could make use of the alliance depot or space dock to transfer the "loot" it finds in system. could maybe make it a bit like the expo's where you send them out for x hours to collect in system debri. i dont mean the few debri fields that may be in system but much like the slot 16 mission. Maybe more focused on cleaning up the system from debri and generating another income which requires a bit more of a active playstyle for the miner

Discoverer: Send it on expo's together with your expo fleet to find xx more ships/resources. lets say per ship you find 0.01% more just to name a number. just like any expo, you can lose your fleet or go into combat.

General: when your sending in a attack on someone who is white or yellow where the loot is 50% / 75% this ship can go beyond this treshhold. sending enough of these you can loot 100% of the target (not sure if this should also work on inactive accounts) You could make it so this ship can only loot the 50% / 25% beyond. example.

Discoverer: Send it on expo's together with your expo fleet to find xx more ships/resources. lets say per ship you find 0.01% more just to name a number. just like any expo, you can lose your fleet or go into combat.

These additions would be a fine addition to the over all function. I see no issue with them being incorporated into the design

( And thanks The design picture was not easy. I had to cheat a bit and use an A.I. art designer. ) the 100 %percent take is a bit over powered though. now if it is an inactive the 100% take would be fair enough for a balance.

So pilot and mechanic alike went to the fleet bone yard.

Take several cruisers, recyclers and probes. apart.

Working for weeks on end to finally developed and launch the first of many scavenge interceptor and lane sweeper.

Able to respond fast enough to catch and with enough sensor arrays to count the sand on the local moons surface..

while the scavenge also features a lower cargo bay made for scooping up debrie fields on the fly to make way for their heavier combat ships

Requirements

impulse :6 hyper space tech :7 shields :8 energy tech :7

cost : 30,000 metal 25,000 crystal deuterium. : 15,000

Base S.I. 55,000

base attack, 350

base shields 75

base speed 9,500

Base cargo capacity 950

debrie hold base cargo capacity 1,100

Base fuel consumption 350

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While clearing attack paths through debrie fields during battle. So cruisers and battle cruisers can move more freely with their light and heavy fighter escorts.

While sweeping debrie from the battle field during battle

gives a plus 1 rapid fire buff to battle cruisers. And a plus 2 to cruisers rapid fire and plus 1 for battleships rapid fire .

Since while used with other combat ships the scavange only clears combat lanes.