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The player's role: Aces or Mercenaries?

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Naoura:
http://gunsoficarus.com/world/factions/mercantile-guild/

http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Goldfish

http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Pyramidion
http://gunsoficarusonline.wikia.com/wiki/Galleon

(Yesha needs to get knocked down a frikking peg. TWO ships?! And a third on the way? Screw you Yesha. Screw you.)

Unarmed Civilian:
On the subject of the Goldfish's nationality:

Goldy is not rough-hewn enough to be  Arashi, too wooden to be Baronies. Anglean style is apparently giant blue squares, which this isn't. Chaladon has unnecessary flourishes, which the Goldfish does arguably have with its "fins", though they prefer very compact hull designs that reduce wood usage. Yesha has wooden construction for its hulls, but prefers multiple balloon sacs and metal incorporated into it, making their ships almost as rough as Arashi. It has a strong Mercantile touch to it due to extreme similarity in helm design to the Magnate and Mobula (helm in front of pavilion, no other faction has that), and the somewhat ornate "fins" and armor walls. The balloon style is most similar to Chaladon.

It most definitely is not Baronies or Arashi. Based on aesthetics it is most likely Chaladon or an odd example of Yeshan ships. Or Anglean because they don't have a Skirmish representative at all. It is possibly Mercantile due to extreme similarity in helm design to other Mercantile ships and overdecoration common to them.

Yeshans seem to prefer simple, effective firepower configurations with utility slots. Chaladon prefers maneuverability and speed at the cost of toughness and gun count, with reliance on side guns. Mercantile prefers withering frontal firepower from medium range and overlapping arcs at the cost of reactivity and speed. Durability is a little below average. Anglea prefers strange, vertical configurations, I guess.

So in terms of general firepower configuration, mobility, and toughness, it is most similar to Chaladon designs. There's a reliance on side guns, and the armor isn't very strong. In terms of Mercantile, Goldfishes can provide withering firepower with certain configurations, though Goldfishes prefer close-range. Arcs overlap somewhat but not very well due to use of a heavy gun. However, the Goldfish is tougher than Chaladon ships due to its hull, making its overall durability more average.

In terms of repair layout, the hull is in a well-monitored location, repair layout is flexible, with the engines being the greatest vulnerability. Mercantile ships have very inflexible repair layouts, hull vulnerability is a mixed bag, but engines are the greatest vulnerability in repairs. Chaladon has accessible hulls with flexible repair layouts, with engines being the greatest vulnerability. Yeshan engines are not extremely vulnerable in terms of repair, though they are vulnerable to disable.

So it shares the repair layout weaknesses and advantages of Chaladon ships most closely.

Overall, it is likely not a major, commissioned ship from any faction, making it more of a mercenary ship. It has aesthetic similarities to Mercantile and Chaladon ships, with handling properties of Chaladon ships. It was likely designed by someone who traveled between the Vastness and Chaladon. The repair layout is like a Chaladon ship, which is a hefty improvement over Mercantile ones. Armor toughness is similar to Chaladon ships and overall toughness similar to Mercantile. It has a low gun count like Chaladon ships but is more frontally focused like Mercantile ships. The fins add an artistic, personal flourish.

If I had to guess, it was made by some shipwright in the Vastness who was heavily influenced by Chaladon design, due to the Mercantile helm design, with a compromise of firepower styles and more Chaladon handling. It was likely designed for the shipwright's personal ship or commissioned as a pleasure ship for someone adventurous that became popular among private owners. The shipwright themselves was likely a traveler between the Vastness and Chaladon.

In other words, SS Mary Sue.

As for the Aces/Mercenaries question, definitely mercenaries. There's enough people out there playing Alliance that are definitely not aces. Definitely not.

Richard LeMoon:
I don't think aces, and not quite mercs. copy/paste from another thread:

The (Skirmish) ships you fly are not like the AI ones. They seem older, and somewhat worse for the wear as if they are secondhand ships. You fly any ship from any faction, with the same being said for guns. You don't fly in major battles, and seem quite expendable. You are not in the in-crowd for any alliance. You can fight for other factions, and even against your own faction at times.

There is only one type of ship/crew that fits all of these. You are a foreign privateer trying to gain favor and maybe citizenship in one of the factions. You are a Wastelander from beyond the borders of all the empires.

Perhaps the Goldfish is of a design not of the current empires, but of the Wastelanders as well.

Naoura:
One of the primary reasons I stated that the Goldie could be Mercantile is the overall hull design, looking between the Magnate and the fish. It seems to me that the Magnate would be built more around heavy trade duty, while the Goldfish could be built more around exploration, or else patrol work. Not a massive amount of space for cargo on the Fish, but enough to serve a purpose. The Magnate has nearly 360 degrees of fire, making it very, very well defended against attacks coming from almost any angle... which is going to be very likely for a heavy freighter.

My working theory, due to how the balloons on the current Mercantile ships are segmented much like the Yeshan ships we have in hand, is that the Goldfish is the ship the Merchants found the cure for their plague with. As Chaladon was one of the first to adopt Airships, the Guild likely drew heavily from them, hence the fins and single, large balloon, as well as the higher speed and maneuverability. However, the Guild would have been more focused on finding a cure for the Blight, which means that they would desire a ship capable of a long, long distance voyage. The bottom-most fins would serve well for catching the wind, making long distance travel much easier and cheaper, which is represented very, very well in current Guild design. The reason for the change in balloon, most likely, is both cheapness and influence from the Empire, who it does a great amount of trade with.

And thanks for the feedback on the original question. I wasn't entirely certain which category we'd fall in, but I'm happy to be a Merc... both for the Merchant's Guild and for a Mercenary.

MightyKeb:
Goldie, Pyra and Galleon are all confirmed to be Yeshan in Wilson's notes.

Junker is Arashi.


Squid is Chaladonian.

Spire is Baronies.

Mobula is (rumored in the lore to be) Mercantile.

Might've given too much detail, but I remember all of these ships' origins pretty clearly.

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