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The Rocinante from the Expanse is a fast and realistic ship that excels in close quarters combat with its 4 Automatic PD turrets and 2 torpedo launchers. But it has a little known relative.. A poorly made, Low quality cosmoteer rip off, A ship with minimal armour and low yield point defence. 'Point defence' so terrible that it cannot destroy 1 incoming LRPT with a clear shot and full ammo for the simple reason that it is so weak. I mean it is horrible but at least it looks sort of pretty as it core breaches its two unshielded reactors..
Ok while it is pretty awful honestly it is good at small interceptors and taking on conventional torpedoes.
Rocinante.. But Cosmoteer
Weapons
The UN's Bush Shipyard's PD corvette class light frigate slammed for ripping off 21st century classic space opera 'The Expanse' features weapons in similar positions to the fictional ship 'Rocinante' Except at an extremely lower yield
The light frigate features one spinal standard projectile cannon mounted on the front acting as the ship's most powerful weapon. This cannon, designed as a higher yield alternative to ship based light plasma weapons - the cannons used on most fighters - allows the ship to destroy thin armour and sub-systems making the ship good at disabling smaller vessels
The ship then also makes use of 4 Martian designed, low power consumption, close range PD turrets. These provide a wide defence screen against incoming torpedoes and other slow moving projectiles, allowing these ships to act as conventional torpedo countermeasures in larger formations. While these turrets excel in PD, they are poor at ship to ship combat and make use of lighter, compact projectiles sacrificing damage and hull penetration for fire rate and longer times between reloading to better serve as an anti conventional torpedo defence.
The ship then also has one high efficiency Martian Ion sub-light drive. This could almost be classed as another of the ship's weapons considering its fierce manoeuvrability, quick rotation speeds and acceleration allowing the ship to either shoot down or evade most incoming fire. This ship accelerates much faster than most others its size such as the UN cargo ship and Errinwright civilian missile cruiser, other ships also known for speed.
The ships
Weaknesses
As you can see, the ship is good at destroying incoming missiles, however outside of conventional torpedoes it begins to run into some trouble
While the ship primarily goes up against smaller ships, A common technology on such vessels is the standardised plasma torpedo launcher, which proves to be quite a problem for the PD net of the Corvette class. Being that they are fast and make use of advanced guidance systems, the turrets have trouble screening against the plasma torpedoes which is a big problem considering the common nature of the weapons and the destructive power of them.
This ship is a modern small craft with plasma torpedo launchers and cannons, Extremely dangerous to any Corvette class. The light grey panel at the front of the ship is thick armour, difficult to punch through even with the ship's spinal gun, meanwhile openings in the wing's light armour expose its two deadly plasma torpedo launchers
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The ship also does a bad job when it comes to LRPTs. Despite its ability to lock onto the much larger frames of the LRPTs, The projectile's low damage means that they are too heavily armoured to be destroyed with the PD turrets which were designed for the standard, lightly armoured conventional torpedo.
The effect of an LRPT detonation next to the ship.. The damage is severe enough to completely destroy the ship even when using a single standard yield plasma torpedo at proximity detonation. Like I didn't just set it to self destruct either, the whole ship dies. Most fighters aren't even completely destroyed at proximity detonation but the light armour makes the ship extremely vulnerable to LRPTs and other high yield explosive weapons.
Also, Like most ships with light armour, It is extremely vulnerable to EMP turrets, with their damage quickly destroying the thin layer of external armour and disabling the ship's subsystems. While as of now EMP turrets are fixed only to UN stations, Projections show that the weapon due to its efficiency will soon enter civilian markets, and while it will likely be less powerful, it would pose a large threat to vessels such as the Corvette if it was to do so.
I might make another rip off expanse ship or just make a normal expanse ship next time
anyways just saying that was a random ship that I had taken screenshots of so lol