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The most I'll say right now is that Taungs will not be a thing because Taung are weird and no.
The most I'll say right now is that Taungs will not be a thing because Taung are weird and no.
No Mangos :O
Total rumour mongering
Personally, I hope that astromechs are limited to this, and this alone -
Personally, I hope that astromechs are limited to this, and this alone -
Okay, so, something I just noticed about the new capital ship restrictions, and how it relates to my plans for the Ossein.
The Ossein are a spacefaring people. Almost exclusively so. They have a combined warrior and merchant culture, so large ships are an important part of their lifestyle. Their "clans" are actually nomadic fleets of such vessels, part fortified trading caravan, part battle fleet. Their ships are often as not "multi-role" vessels, able to transport cargo and passengers, but also to fight.
Ships to the Ossein are precious things, of course; one does not risk a capital ship lightly, even more because large ships are very likely to contain families and other "civilians" in addition to their warrior crews. Ossein culture emphasizes starfighter combat, of course, but they recognize the need for their "homes" to get stuck in with the enemy if fighters alone can't do the job.
Now, obviously the Ossein fleets have been diminished quite a bit even by the era of the new TL, but currently, my idea is that every fleet has an ancestral battle-wagon which functions as its flagship. These ships are old, very, very old, and very, very large; in my current thinking, they would range between a battlecruiser and a dreadnaught ("dreadnought" as the Ossein would call it) in the Anaxes War College System.
Now, these things are enormous and probably quite powerful, but as mentioned, the Ossein would be very reluctant to risk one in battle unless circumstances were extremely dire. Moreover, though they were probably built as dedicated warships, even the newest such vessels are thousands of years old, and the Ossein lifestyle has turned them more into "city ships" where tens of thousands of people live and work, not to mention super-heavy transports for moving cargo.
They would pack a punch, but the Ossein would much rather keep them out of range and let corvettes and starfighters conduct any space battles.
Would something like this be acceptable in the new timeline? Obviously the Ossein would not have weathered the Hundred-Year Darkness much better than most, but while the rest of the Galaxy has abandoned the use of super-heavy capital ships, such vessels to the Ossein are symbols of their fleets, and more importantly, their homes.