Hello John,
the mothership is cheaply made, unstreamlined, and with cheap TL11
materials. It could be built using second-hand engines in a hull that is
roughly finished out of cheap plates. The subcraft are also cheaply
made, but with streamlining and standard or expensive TL11 materials.
They could be built using second-hand engines and weapons, with the
airframe out of a modern but small workshop.
I was thinking of the shipyards which produce smuggling craft, either
"cigarette boats" or nacro-subs. Crude by the standards of a real 21st
century navy, effective and impressive by something kit-bashed in a
sleepy backwater. Or think of the pirate boats and motherships off
Somalia and Eritrea.
Where does the money come from? Some parts like engines or sensors would
be delivered "in kind," from the last victim. The cargo would be fenced,
at quite a loss, to pay for the rest. Of course the pirates don't make
the profit, they're just as expendable as the ships. The kingpins and
money launderers make the real money.
Of course such a ship requires an unstable setting with worlds where
corsairs can buy sanctuary.
Regards,
Onno
Am 15.02.2016 um 14:40 schrieb John Dallman:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
The Corsair Mothership is home to a small squadron of shuttlecraft and
aerospace fighters. Both the starship and her carried squadron are cheap
and expendable -- they are supposed to make a profit, not to win a war.
I'm a bit puzzled by what seem to be purpose-built craft for piracy. Who
designs and builds them? How do pirates raise the money to buy them?
John
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