Crimson Fleet Captain ship
Crimson Fleet Captain ship
Just went through a Starfield experience that sort of awed me. Wanted to capture some pirate ships, I took a mission from Freestar Rangers mission terminal to destroy a "Crimson Fleet Captain." I thought it was a person, but that's the name of a ship.
Engaged the ship, battle was fairly easy, took out their engines with EM weapons and boarded the ship. I was immediately blown away by how big and full of stuff the ship was. I've got a couple class B ships, but this one was probably 5 times the size of my Aegis. There were rooms after rooms, a few big open areas, several kitchens and sitting areas, a medical bay, storerooms, weapon rooms, armor mannequins, and a medium size trek-like bridge. The ship had at least 3 levels, and had probably 10-15 pirates to fight. Got to the captain's chair and was able to sit in it because I had leveled up my pilot skill enough. The ship was mine! I did this sort of thing last week with a smaller but impressive ship, but wasn't able to sit in the chair because my pilot skill was too low, so I had to abandon it.
All the time I was fighting my way through the ship I was saying "oh my god" to myself as I saw how much bigger this ship was than the ones I was used to.
For all it's shortcomings Starfield really nailed the ships, they are very unique and even compare very favorably to ships from Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous. Elite Dangerous ships might give them some design competition but you can't walk around in them IIRC.
ETA: The ship is apparently originally a Crossbow III, it's not all that huge but compared to the starter ship it's massive: https://inara.cz/starfield/ship/1984/
If you want to build a ship with those same big rooms you can get those at the manufacturers HQ. Biggest once are 3x3. Cool stuff indeed!
Nova Galactic: ship service technician at New Homestead on Titan in Sol. Deimos: Deimos Staryard above Deimos (Moon of Mars) HopeTech: shop at Hopetown on Polvo in Valo Stround-Eklund: Stroud-Eklund Staryard above Dalvik in Narion Taiyo: shop is at Neon on Volii Alpha in Volii (Elevator in Ryujin Building)
The biggest modules I saw in Taiyo were 3x2 habs, are there actually 3x3s that I couldn't see because Im only licensed for Class A? There were other modules I could see, but not use because I didn't have the traits, but I didn't see anything bigger than 3x2 at the Taiyo HQ
Stroud is where to go.
Stroud for life (or at least mid game).
Do the different manufacturers have different stats? Or is it just looks?
interesting, gonna have to level that skill soon!
i just did this bounty last night, and now i feel bad. i just blew them away and flew off. just another mission. but the way you explained their ship, the detail, i almost feel bad that such a place i wasted without even looking at. like Tarkin destroying Alderan, just a big ball of rock and gas, but full of life and detail he didnt know or care about. maybe getting a bit too deep here but this is exactly why i love this game
I know what you mean, I board a lot of pirate ships and think it's such a waste that all this technology is used to rob and kill. Many of them would be very cosy places to live. I now have my full 10 ships (I think that's the max), most painted in Rebel Alliance white and red livery. Most were captured, I bought 1 and 2 were obtained through storyline.
But the dilemma of destroying a random pirate ship is nothing compared to the decisions you have to make in some of the missions later on.