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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atanakar" data-source="post: 4202670" data-attributes="member: 65762">Starhip Notes : AFPAbout the Fraal Automated Factory Platform (AFP)FunctionThe AFPs are the backbone of Fraal military strategy. Operated by a skeleton crew of 25 Fraals these superheavy FTL starships are literally mobile factories. Whenever the Fraal become involved in a major conflicts they dispatch fully stocked AFPs to «quickly» build ships to replace the destroyed ones. Soon the enemy is winded and the conflict comes to an abrupt end. Then, Fraal diplomats come into play to sign a non-aggression treaty.Mother of InventionAfter 1 month of harvesting the AFP will start assembling ships. Sinatra could only get his hands on the decommisioned PL7 platform «Mother of Invention». This older model can only build PL6 Fraal starships. Fortunately, thanks to Davis Jr's ace programming abilities the AFP building parameters have been adjusted to human physiology. Below is the list of ships the Galactic Concord is willing to «give» to the humans. The AFPs can produce different ships at the same time because they have multiple production lines.Sequence of Production (order in which assets are built by the AFP)Phase 1- Gunships (Escort_Ultra light) x04 • Production : 5 daysPhase 2- Corvette (Light) x02 • Production : 5 daysPhase 3- Cruiser (Mediumweight) x01 • Production : 15 daysPhase 4- Fleet carrier (Heavy) x01 + Assault fighters (Ultralight) x16 • Production : 30 daysPhase 5- Courier (Ultralight) x02 + Fast Freighter (Ultralight) x02 • Production : 5 daysIn 90 days the Solar system will be armed with a small defensive fleet on which to build upon. Sinatra is gambling no major Technophage assault will happen within this time period. Already, close to 1000 mutants have entered the Space Port Authority accelerated training program. The cadets are shipped to the Fraal lunar base, given nano augmenter vaccines and rigorously trained by impassive Fraal instructors. When the AFP finishes phase 5 ships Humans will have 900 «trained» crew quality soldiers. For the first year Fraal commanding officers will train the best candidates to replace them.LimitationsSome at the Galactic Concord Council fear that arming the «violence prone» humans could lead to a new menace down the road. For this reason, all on board engineers will be either Fraal or Alereen for the first year of the program. Also, when the AFP has finished its production run it will return to Fraal space to avoid any tempering by the «crafty» humans.</blockquote>

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