Fitting a Loki Cruiser for Sleepers
Loki, the trickster god, changed shapes according to his whims and devious plans to cause headaches and heartbreak for everyone around him. He did all sorts of nasty things that his family and friends frequently didn’t appreciate it, and eventually slipped deeply into the dark side. Not everything ends well for him at the final battle of the gods, though…
So, in line with this, we now have the “Loki” tech III strategic cruiser class. Highly adaptable to all sorts of situations, this ship can do so many different things that pilots can shake their heads in confusion from the tyranny of choice. Where do you even start when trying to build one?
As one of my associates (my protégé, really) will start to fly one of these within the day, we’ve spent some time thinking about how to build hers. Constraints can really help narrow down one’s engineering choices, so we wanted this ship to focus on combat against Sleepers in W-space: accompanying the fleet into anomalies and radar or magnetometric sites as a decently-tanked combat ship rather than logistics (though I expect she’ll want something like that soon, too).
Right now, we’ve sorted through the possibilities and looking for something like a Cyclone setup (active tank, reliance on medium artillery), though with sufficient resistances so that this relatively small hull can at least try to withstand the onslaught thrown against it. The capacitor instability concerns us greatly, of course, as those medium shield boosters can really suck away the energy.
We’d love to hear and discuss suggestions from other Loki pilots or those experienced with this sort of work.
[Loki, WH Combat]
Reactor Control Unit I
Power Diagnostic System I
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Gyrostabilizer II
Medium Shield Booster II
Medium Shield Booster II
Large Shield Extender II
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
720mm Howitzer Artillery II, EMP M
Salvager I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Loki Defensive - Adaptive Shielding
Loki Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Loki Engineering - Power Core Multiplier
Loki Offensive - Turret Concurrence Registry
Loki Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers
UPDATE: Alternately, I got a suggestion from @r_javorsky about trying autocannons instead. That leads to much easier fitting, so maybe this will work better.
[Loki, WH Combat 2]
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Gyrostabilizer II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Medium Shield Booster II
Medium Shield Booster II
Large Shield Extender II
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
425mm AutoCannon II, EMP M
Salvager I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
Loki Defensive - Adaptive Shielding
Loki Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer
Loki Engineering - Power Core Multiplier
Loki Offensive - Turret Concurrence Registry
Loki Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers
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Date: 2009-11-18
Categories: Guides