User:Kimagurena/Project Palanquin 2327 Proposal

Conceived as a means of constructing a tiny, cheap, vessel for purposes of acting as a primary courier for FDS in times of peace while maintaining a cheap and easy refit potential for utility in times of war, Project Palanquin succeeds at both rather admirably. 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Refit cost: 5 BR 10 SR from Palanquin to Emergency, 5 BR 0 SR from Emergency to Palanquin

The frontloading of the SR costs of the refit is an unfortunate side effect of cutting costs down from 40 SR to 35 SR on the initial Palanquin builds. This is probably less than ideal since any such refit would necessarily be occurring at the height of a major emergency, when there would be numerous other critical draws on available resources. Fortunately, next generation weapons technology should enable a future emergency design such as 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this], that would reshuffle the refit costs to 5 BR 5 SR in each direction.

This proposal has been reasonably criticized due to its conception and design as a vessel created with the fundamental purpose of being a combat reserve rather than being optimized for its more peaceful focus. For a less militarized design, consider a sword-to-plowshare Miranda-P refit (such as that proposed by Sunrise) or the Chaos Emerald variant.