[President_Elect_Shang]

2401.7: The Tal-Re Republic (hence forth simple the Republic) continues its exploration into the stars. Growth on the Republics first extra solar colony continues and they complete their first organics facility; which means they can finally feed themselves. PE Shang summons several of his Chairmen and charges them to develop an “Other Man” scenario and to include the designs for the Republics’ first warship. The design presented to him; the Enterprise Class (see attachment) is based on a DD hull (300kt) which is the largest warship hull the Republic can currently build. It features: 30kt of Armor, 2 Small Crew Quarters, a Small Cargo Hold, a Small and full sized Magazine providing 280 rounds for the 3 Missile Launchers. The Missile Launcher fires an endurance (more commonly known as a non-sprint) type missile which trades high speeds for greater range. Our scientists tell us that it may be possible to design and construct a weapon capable of providing a “point defense” to stop non-sprint missiles. This however; is more speculation than theory at our current tech level. The design presented has the Enterprise Class being powered by 7 Commercial Engines. Currently this is the only inter-system engine; however, researchers are working on a replacement which they have dubbed the Military Engine. It should be finalized within the next 6 months. It will provide the same thrust but only require half the space (10HS as opposed to 20). After much consideration and more than a few heated arguments the Chairman for Construction aggress to ask funding from the Senate for construction of the Enterprise Class but only after the Military Engine is developed and the designs updated.

New Item: Small Crew Quarters combine the function of both Crew Quarters and Life Support into one unit. This single unit comes with a higher price and can only service half the crew of a full Crew Quarters.

The Commercial Engine is a transplanted technology. That is it was transplanted from one tech level to another. The reason for moving it was that (1) without adding tons of restrictions and general fruitiness I can’t model the Commercial and Military Engine correctly. So I made my own versions! Also (2) I want this mod to be backward compatible. In other words if someone says “Hay I like this mod but instead of starting at Industrial 2 I would like to start at Industrial 1. If that should ever happen when said person looks under the hood to add in the new components (or whatever) they will see this mod is ready to be digressed, or even progressed if High Tech level 16 isn’t enough.