NationStates Jolt Archive

Open! Feel free to visit the Blubs and browse their wares.

Space

Starships
Blub Battlecruiser Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11761618&postcount=9) * 25 billion credits

Fighters/Attack
BA1 Fighter-Bomber (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11677225&postcount=6) * $100 million credits

Ground Combat

Front-Line Vehicles
M1 Blub Hover Tank (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11703496&postcount=8) * $35 million credits

APCs
Mobile Blub Deployment Vehicle (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11677273&postcount=7) * $30 million credits

Support

reserved ,, misc

reserved ,, might not need it though.

The BA1 Fighter-Bomber

http://img328.imageshack.us/img328/540/blubb1fighterbombertr8.png

The Blub's first venture into aerospace technology. The BA1 is based on technology found shortly before Juno VII was colonated. It features a mid-range FTL drive, and heavy weaponry. It is slightly less manuverable than fighter craft, but even with its somewhat larger size, it is impressively agile.

Built for short and mid range missions, the BA1 seats three. A pilot, a navigator and a weapons technician. It features a stand-up cockpit area, with a toilet, two fold-down bunks and storage for food, essentials and extra equipment.

The electronics system is modular, allowing it to be quickly swapped out for mission changes or upgrades, and has space for future upgrades as well.

Length: 21 meters
Height: 5.5 meters
Width: 7 meters
Weight: 45 tons
Crew: 3
Armor: 800mm dura-lex composite titanium
Engines: Two free-movement hover engines with directional thrusters.
FTL: Custom Blub-Star FTL.
Speed, Atmospheric:Mach 3.9 cruise, 5.5 max
Speed, Space:Typically mach 9.5, 16.8 max with control
Sensors: Mid-range full sensor suite
Defenses: Jamming pods, chaff dispensor, chameleon cloaker.
Weaponry:
Dual forward firing pulse laser cannons
Single rear-firing 50mm cannon turret
Racks for 6 ordance on belly
Dual bomb bays, each carrying up to 30 bombs or cruise missiles or 12 tons.


Price: 75 million to build
Market Price: 100 million, export price

Mobile Blub Deployment Vehicle

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1725/blubdeploymentvehiclehm6.png

The MBDV is designed to ferry Blub infantry to the battlefield. Once there, it can launch two waves of ten troops onto the battlefield using rapid deployment pods. The pods can be aimed by one of the crew the trooper, or set to a random deployment pattern. At between 10 and 25 meters off the ground (Programmed by crew or the trooper) it splits open and allows the trooper inside to deploy using a jetpack.

The rear-hatch of the MBDV allows the Blubs to re-mount the vehicle for transport back off the battlefield. The MBDV if used as an ambulance, can fit 14 stretchers.

Length: 10 meters
Height: 3.5 meters
Width: 6 meters
Crew: 2 +20 Blub Troopers
Armor: 900mm dura-lex composite titanium
Engines: Blub-Driver XL, hydrocarbon fuel-based
Speed: 180kmph
Sensors: Short range, standard.
Defenses: Smoke dispensor, jammer pod.
Weaponry:
Side-mounted dual rocket launcher with space for four reloads.
Rifle slits.
Ten pod launchers.

Price: 20 million to build
Market Price: 30 million, export price

M1 Blub Hover Tank
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8493/blubtank2eu3.png

The Blubs have developed a heavy chassis for heavy weaponry. The platform itself is a hover vehicle using a small displacement package at the front and rear to maintain even lift.

The main gun is a monster 225mm cannon with a custom autoloading system. It consists of a rotating drum, which feeds rounds to the cannon in a revolver style. The system runs on two seperate electrical systems. If one or the other is disabled, it can continue to function. A secondary 35mm chaingun is mounted above the hatch, which may be controlled from inside of the tank by the commander. The chaingun has a powerful sensor mount on it, and can be set to an automatic mode in which it will engage incoming rockets and missiles.

Length: 11.5 meters
Height: 2.5 meters
Width: 4.25 meters
Weight: 65 tons
Crew: 3 (Gunner, driver and commander.)
Armor: 1,200mm dura-lex composite titanium
Engines: Blub-Driver XXL, hydrocarbon fuel-based
Speed: 160kmph
Sensors: Short range, standard. Total spectrum.
Defenses: Smoke dispensor, jammer pod. EMP shielding, radioactive/biological/chem sealing.
Weaponry:
225mm main gun, autoloader with 5 round revolver drum.
35mm chaingun above hatch. (Can be remotely operated from inside.)


Price: 25 million to build
Market Price: 35 million, export price

Blub Battlecruiser Class

http://ewancient.lysator.liu.se/pic/art/l/i/liljenberg/47cruiser.jpg

The Blub Battlecruiser is designed to be a primary, front-line combatant mixing speed, heavy armor and overwhelming firepower together into a fairly compact and well-engineered piece of warmachine. Not an inch of space on the Blub Battlecruiser is wasted

Weaponry
The weaponry system is intelligently designed. It is entirely modular and able to be quickly swapped out with other weapons or replaced if damaged. The weapons are effectively plug'n'fight to the point that the Blub Battlecruiser can fullfill any number of roles from gunship to anti-fighter defense to orbital bombardments.

Blubstorm Gun Technology
Blubstorm is a technology where caseless ballistic munitions are used to provide a devestatingly high rate of fire. What appears to be a single-barreled weapon is actually a rotating firing mechanism which fires through a single, specially designed barrel shielded against overheating. This allows crew to fix jams from inside the gun turret/mount.

Typical ammunition types vary, from basic armor-piercing or HE to plasma and EMP rounds.


Length: 1,130 meters
Height: 90.5 meters
Width: 240 meters
Weight: 2,400,050 tons
Crew: 3,500
Armor: 8m dura-lex composite alloy
Engines: Free movement engines with directional thrusters.
FTL: Custom Blub-Star FTL.
Sensors: Ultralong-range full sensor suite
Defenses: Jamming pods, chaff dispensor, chameleon cloaker.
Weaponry, Primary Config: (Weapons can be interchanged)
x5 quad-mount (4 barrels) 800mm capital turrets (31.5")
x13 dual-mount (2 barrels) 450mm point-defense turrets (17.75")
x4 dual-mount (2 barrels) 450mm disruptor turrets (17.75")
x12 dual (2 barrels) torpedo/missile tubes

Fighter Compliment
Space for 15 squadrons (150 fighters/scouts)

Misc.
30 bays convertable to fighter storage (50 fighters per bay) or bombing (1,250 individual bombs)

Price: 21 billion to build
Market Price: 25 billion, export price

Hey Blub, nice storefront! I might get some of those battlecruisers, since my current ones are pieces of junk.

I have this advice though:
The fighter/bomber thing is awesome, but it should be a little larger for everything that it holds (even though Blubs are tiny) Make it 20 meters, and it will be spacious for all of that. But 13 is kinda small. Oh, and you could drop it to a 2 seater if you wanted (though the three appears to be in order to have people fly in shifts, in which case it's perfect)

The two ground vehicles are cool, but a small price drop would be a good idea. (both production and market) Maybe drop 5 million off those prices tops.

I love the battlecruiser, but seriously make it more expensive. You get what you pay for, and on NS, that can get to absurd levels.

Consider an order for half a dozen of those battlecruisers pending. (I'll officially place it once we're done negotiating in the thread)

Hey Blub, nice storefront! I might get some of those battlecruisers, since my current ones are pieces of junk.

I have this advice though:
The fighter/bomber thing is awesome, but it should be a little larger for everything that it holds (even though Blubs are tiny) Make it 20 meters, and it will be spacious for all of that. But 13 is kinda small. Oh, and you could drop it to a 2 seater if you wanted (though the three appears to be in order to have people fly in shifts, in which case it's perfect)

The two ground vehicles are cool, but a small price drop would be a good idea. (both production and market) Maybe drop 5 million off those prices tops.

I love the battlecruiser, but seriously make it more expensive. You get what you pay for, and on NS, that can get to absurd levels.

Consider an order for half a dozen of those battlecruisers pending. (I'll officially place it once we're done negotiating in the thread)


Okay.. :) Trying to fix the prices now, I'm still new at all this. Let me know what you think in 10 minutes.

I like it. The fighter is just a tad narrow, but otherwise, tis shiney :D

Oh, and forgot to mention this: there's no 'speed' in space, just use acceleration. No idea on what a sane acceleration is. However, those crazy people at the NS Draftroom http://z4.invisionfree.com/the_ns_draftroom can help out a lot.

EDIT: oh, sorry I'm not on IRC, I'm at my grandparent's house (Funeral for my Great Grandmother) I want to talk about our guest before I post again.

dur bump.