Re: Neogi Capital Ships

In our last episode, Forest T Pavel said:

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>Cost:                                                  -------  (who'd
>want it besides neogi?)

	Me! Me! Me!   (:

>Crew:                                                300 /650
>                                                           Standard
>Complement

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>                                                           50 Giff
>Platoon Mercenary Slaves

	How in the world did they *capture* that many giff?  I thought
giff had that whole "Victory or Death!" thing.  

>                                                           1 Illithid
>Liason Officer

	What?!?!  (:  A 650 ton warship is used to destroy people, and
does it very well.  Do they *need* a "liason officer"?  And an illithid
of all things.  Unless there is a good reason for it, I wouldn't allow
a non-food illithid.  After all, a mind flayer can mess up a crew pretty
badly.

>Power Type:                                    Great Old Master Bonded
>Major Helm

	Cool idea!

>The Great Old Master is perhaps the most feared ship of all Wildspace, it
>is the destroyer of worlds, and conquerer of species.

	Doesn't Gamaro Base hold that honor?  (:

>Built for the sole
>purpose of conquest across the known crystal spheres, this ship is the
>greatest of the neogi's perverted technology.  

	Which is why they wouldn't have a mind flayer.  Or at least, if
*I* was a neogi, I wouldn't let an illithid near me.

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>Great Old Master Bonded Major Helm

	Once again, cool idea.  (:

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>Hulkship
>Crew:                                       8/15
>                                                 Standard Complement
> 
>                                                 1 Neogi "captain"
>                                                 3 Umberhulk "officers"

	Are umberhulks intelligent enough to "lead"?  And if they are,
then what are they doing listening to the orders of little armless
(possibly tasty) speedbumps?

>Standard Armament:
>                                                 Piercing Ram

	Or how about a grappling or claw(?) ram?  That way thay can latch
on to ships and attack.

>Keel Length:                          35'
>Beam Length:                       25'

	Thirty five feet long but is 22 tons?

>Umberhulk Crystal Eye Focus
>
>This is a magically treated giant crystal (8' tall) that allows a single
>umberhulk to utilize its confusion gaze attack on a whole vessel,
>including that ship's helmsman, leaving the ship dead in space. 
>Essentially the hulk focuses its gaze upon one ship and the eye magnifies
>the gaze over the entire vessel, making the hulkship seem as though it
>were a "real" giant umberhulk.  Note-because a hulkship employs two of
>these, two different vessels can be affected at once.  

	What about using both eyes on the same ship?  Or what size area
does it affect if you use them on an army on the ground?  I assume that
the confusion doesn't affect the whole planet.  (Though that would explain
my state of mind today... (: )

-Static

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