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VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: James Patten on April 15, 2008, 06:17:58 AM

Title: Parasite ships
Post by: James Patten on April 15, 2008, 06:17:58 AM

What is a parasite ship?  Is it shuttles?  Or something more complicated than that?

Title: Re: Parasite ships
Post by: Charlie Beeler on April 15, 2008, 07:12:28 AM

Quote from: "James Patten"

What is a parasite ship?  Is it shuttles?  Or something more complicated than that?

One answer would be, anything you want.  

In general a parasite ship is any ship that can fit in the "internal ship hanger" based on tonnage.  

In practice, v2.5 anyway, the parasite is a specially built small warship (1000 tons or less).  There a some special tech available (such as gunboat engine) to help build functional ships this small.

Think of it being a morph of the Starfire gunboats and SFB Andromada satellite ships.