[Taqwus]

You could fit 34 Organic Armor III (150 ea, IIRC) on a Baseship, but it'd be a tight fit -- if it's 30kt per piece, that's 1020kt, plus you need two repair components, if memory serves, so that's an additional... 300kt. So you wouldn't have much room for other foo, and would be quite vulnerable to anybody with armor-piercing weapons. Crystalline armor has the same damage resistance / space ratio, I believe. Armor III tops out at... 30kt/10kt? Which is too many to fit in a base ship (you need 167 pieces... which also means you'd need 21 repair bays, since 166 would be destroyed per turn. 21 repair bays just won't fit, even in a Starbase.)... so only Organic or Crystalline can even attempt this.

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