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I'm sure the electronics technicians can whip you up something strong enough to kill most men. Traditionally the Electronics Technicians were issued pure grade alcohol to use cleaning wiring and stuff, but it inevitably ended up mixed with tang and orange juice... Strong stuff.

You've never heard of Jet Juice I take it.

Same thing actually. That's just the star wars equivalent to something sailors have been whipping up for a very, very long time.

Anyway... some rules.

No-autohits: If I see a player autohit an opponent npc that player is obviously suffering from target fixation and will get hit by whatever friends the npc had. The same holds true for starfighter engagements, you'll get kills but not nearly as many as you got in Emerald Squadron RP. You make an attack and wait and see if it hits, you don't get a kill in every dogfight after all.

OPFOR: All posts from the enemy perspective will be in dark red. There will be a number of repeatedly appearing opponents among the OPFOR, so don't get mad if I hyperspace a ship out of the fight once it's hull starts to buckle. I'm considering whipping up some Profiles for the OPFOR personnel so that you'll know the sort you're facing.

ISD-1, right? Standard compliment of equipment?

I prefer Stellar's original story, personally. Plus, an ISD isn't all that big. Only a few square miles of space, plus the space around it when we're in battle.

Compared to the other idea, this is WAY smaller, of an exponetial proportion.

No I think an ISD is a better choice for this sort of RP. A Venator has got pretty high maintenance requirements due to the lack of standardization in the design, there are three type of engines equipped for instance compared to two types on an ISD, the complex hangar door mechanisms and older equipment in general would also cause problems.

If you're talking about a fighter compliment, there's over 400 starfighters on a Venator, each of which would require maintenance compared to 77 starfighters on an ISD (72 TIEs and 5 Xg-1s), plus the Imperial-class is designed with lessons from the clone wars in mind, of which I'd think easier maintenance would be quite high on the list. Looking at the difference in crew compliment I wonder if part of the reason the ISD has so many crew is an overabundance of backup systems to monitor. The two ships have similar armament and combat systems but the Venator only has a crew of 7,000 about 1/5th the number on an ISD. I'd guess this means that even down to 13k we could still fully man the primary systems, but we'd have to shut down the backups.