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Year 12 Day 353 12:57 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Mika Noris

The question was bugging me for a long time, but I don't think it fits suggestions forum.

Shouldn't VSD be able to operate in atmosphere and have an ability to land ?
The ship we have in SWC, is supposed to be VSD Mark I, which by design was able to fly in atmosphere (thus these wings on the sides of the ship) and as proven in Ghorman Massacre story (when Tarkin landed his VSD on protestors) - was able to land on the planet's surface.

It was the later design, Mark II, which lost ability to descend, by upgrading ship's sublight speed.

“Unique among Star Destroyers, the Victory featured atmospheric maneuvering surfaces or "wings", making it one of the largest capital ships capable of atmospheric operations; in one of the most infamous examples of this capability, then-Captain Tarkin landed his vessel on a crowd of protestors in what would later be called the Ghorman Massacre. Such ships could take the battle to the enemy on the surface, rather than be restricted to orbital bombardments. The following Victory II subclass retained the wings but lost this atmospheric ability. ”


I know that ships review is an old idea, abandoned long time ago,due to more important development tasks, but shouldn't such vital for this ship option, be included in our stats ?

Thanks in advance for any answers :)




Year 12 Day 353 14:25 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Lilith Delcroix

I just wanna say landing a VSD on a crowd of people is just epic idea lol

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Moons can't fly.


Year 12 Day 353 14:49 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Mikel von Bianchi

I believe the reasoning given was that the ability to land the VSD would make it too overpowered.

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Year 12 Day 353 18:03 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Tiali Bixa-Loca

Then make it the MkII version?


Year 12 Day 353 19:45 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Ellias Aubec

It was part of my proposed ship changes, and Vey had given the ok to it. Another thing to lament.

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Year 12 Day 353 22:03 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Mikel von Bianchi

The MkII had different weaponry; if you look, ours has the weapons and technology of the MkI but the landing capacity (or lack thereof) of the MkII. It's a menagerie.

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Year 12 Day 354 1:45 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Mika Noris

Too keep game balanced and make it fair - Tarkin's landing is the only one incident I'm aware of - besides he landed on platform/pad - so there's a reason to put it in question. More or less.....

But what about adding repursorlifts and ability to descend to atmosphere only ?
It was main purpose and design of the ship, making VSD able to fly in atmosphere. Heritage of Acclamators and Venators, I believe.





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Year 12 Day 354 7:59 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Alex Tylger

The Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser was also able to land in canon.

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Year 12 Day 358 5:33 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Chancy Mandu

I seem to recall there was a proposed plan to give the VSD the ability to land it was around the same time when there was talk of reducing the BFF max passengers to 1. needless to say people where not happy and both ideas where scrapped


Year 12 Day 358 6:42 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Ellias Aubec

As I said CHancy, it was when I proposed the ship changes - so much more than those 2 were scrapped wwhen the changes were.

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Year 13 Day 8 9:29 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Ku`Bakai Roche

I actually liked most of the changes you proposed. It would of affected me some but I would of worked through it :).



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Year 13 Day 8 11:45 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Shuji Shizuka

Ellias, why not re-propose them?

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Year 13 Day 8 17:33 Flight grade repursorlifts and landing capacity for VSD ?
Ellias Aubec

Because I cannot be bothered to waste my time. I did post the entire list of proposed changes (including, I think, changes to hyper, cargo cap etc) in another thread about ship changes in the questions forums if you want to search.

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