Michael-John Campbell's X2 Rules


This is a write-up of the technology used by the X2 ships listed here.  Any resemblance to X2 technology elsewhere (especially at at the ADB's X2 topic) is intentional.  Systems are currently listed in the order received.  I have not made any semblance of trying to group them.

Articles are presented un-edited.  I do a little formatting for clarity and reference.

Other MJC stuff:

Misc X2 rules X2 Hydran Rules Misc X2 ships X2 Lyran Fleet X2 Hydran fleet  

This is how I stand on the X2 ships.
They shall X1 ships with slight changes to their capacitates.
R6, attract drones and follow RTNs.
All have X-Full Aegis.
BTTY are three pointers until the Delta Refit when they become 4 pointers.

All ships have a an S-Bridge....it can control drones and break lockons from S-Bridge may break Lock-ons but only at a range of 6 or less.

All have an A.S.I.F.
The ASIF works as the following...the listed systems are able to take double the damage ( that is they take two points of damage each ) to destroty each box...if the last point of damage strikes a box, it will destroy that box either in conjunction with a preivous points of damage or on it's own. The SSD should have a table on it (in four parts, low power, full power and the SSD box types of each . They are Low Power:- Hull, Excess Damage, Armour.Full OPower, Cargo, Baracks, Control, Lab, Shuttle bay.

ASIF works, as the listed systems take two points of damage to destroy if the ASIF is running in a powered mode. Low Power:- Hull, Excess Damage, Armor.Full Power:- Cargo Barracks, Control, Shuttle Bay, Lab. The last point of damage must destroy a box reguardless of whether that is
in conjunction with the penultimate point of damage or by it'self. The A.S.I.F. has a decreaing return, it cost the same ammount of power to
run reguardless of how many SDD boxes of a particularly type are running. The ASIF increases to the protected level of the protected system 4 impulses  after power was applied to it, and looses the protective effect the instant power is takenm away from it...at WS-III an X2 ship may be considered to  have been opperating it's ASIF on the previous turn.

24 Photon Photns fire with 12 impulse ( 17-20) and 16 impulse ( 21-24 ) double braodside penalties...any photon armed with more then 6 points of warp in a single turn becomes unstable and can neither be held nor completed on a latter turn....may choose prox or not with 4 impulse penalty....may fire at R5-8 oin overloaded Proximity mode...fire standards upto 12 points, may choose to fire 9-12 point warheads as standards or overloads at the instant of fire.  X2 Photons may Fire in Proximity Overload mode at the R5-8 bracket and may choose to convert regular shots ( standards and overloads ) to proxies and back with a four impulse delay.X2 Photons fired as 17-20 point waheads overheat and create a 12 impulse double broadside penalty and 21-24 pointers have a 16 point double broadside penalty. X2 Photons with more than 6 ( that's more than notmore than or equal to ) points of Warp added to them may be neither completed nor held because of instability ( but will be availible for fire this turn ).

X2 Disruptors have fully intergrate IUM ( which fires in standard shot with overload chance to hit ) and 4 Point Disruptor Caps ( which become 6 poit Disruptor Caps during the BTTY refit ) and they have a 6 impulse double broadside penalty.
 

Phaser-5s may fire in rapid pulse mode as either 2Ph-6 shots or 3Ph-3 shotsd ( a Ph-3 shot may be substituted for a Ph-6 shot in the pair of Ph-6 shots ). Ph-6 shots cost 0.5 points of power.All X2 Phasers have a three point Cap.
Ph-5s should have 3 point caps ( as should X2Ph-1s ) and rapid pulse as either 2Ph6 shots or 3Ph-3 shots.

X2 G-racks should be able to fire Type IX & XII drones at a rate of one every 6 impulses.
X2 E-racks can fire Type IX & XII drones every 3 impulses and my Fire type VII & X drones once per turn ( not within 8 impulses of type IX or XII drone ).

Type X drones are 24/8/40,
Type XI drones are 32/10/40
Type XII are 2(4 & 8)/5/40.
Type X, XI & XII drones weren't invented until Y217.

X2 Lyrans

The Lyran X2 ESG opperated as an X1 ESG but the reraising period (G23.323 ) changed to 4 impulses and the next turn rather than the 32 impulses and the second next turn.

Lyran Interceptor ESGs use ESGs taken from their early years stores and opperate as an early years ESG.
 
S-Bridge: The Lyrans used their S-bridge and mech links to turn all of their X2 vessels into defacto PFTs (having the Andro RTN hunting ability if not the EW loaning ability of a PFT) and Lyran X2 vessels were just as likely to be seen with PFs in tow as not, Theorising that an XCC and an XDD would have the ability to bring along an entire Interceptor squadron.

The Lyrans planed to build XCCs and XDDs and built them from Y205 but also began feilding smaller/cheaper cruisers (the XCM and XCL ) from Y210 as a form of cost cutting. The Lyrans never built an XFF feeling that the X2 Interceptor could perform the role of most any XFF.


Federation XFF
Use Fed FFX
30 all round shield boxes
20 total warp engine boxes ( 4 more)
X2 Photons
One LS/FH/RS Ph-5s ( gaining an extra LS and RS Ph-5 when the phaser refit occours ).
Labs increase to a total of 4.
S-Bridge.
Full X Aegis.
ASIF Cost ( list under life support ) 2+4

Federation XDD
Use DDX ( Size Class 3 )
40 all round shield boxes
28 total warp engine boxes.
AWRs increased to 6.
2 then 3 then 4 X2 photons ( alpha beta refits ( phaser should be gamma )
trios of Ph-1 replaced with pairs of Ph-5s ( after refit returns to 9Ph-5s by replacing trios of Ph-1s with trios of Ph-5s)
6 abs
2 Cargo boxes added ( for longer duration missions ).
S-Bridge
Full X Aegis
ASIF Cost 3+6

Federation XCA
Use CX ( Size class 2 )
48/40/40/40 shields
48 total warp engine boxes.
2 extra scauser warp engine boxes.
X2 Photons.
2 LS/FH/RS/360deg Ph-5s ( after gamma refit this becomes 12Ph-5s).
Longer rear hull ( 4 extra R-hull boxes ( enterprise B liike ) and 4 cargo
boxes.
S-bridge
Full X Aegis
ASIF Cost 5+9


Just for comaprison, the Klingon XD7
XD7
Use DX ( Size class 2 )
48/44/40/40 shield boxes.
48 warp engine box total.
2 extra scaucer warp boxes, APRs become AWRs.
12Ph-1s ( 1 extra boom Ph-1 ) latter after the phaser refit becomes 12Ph-5s.
4 Disruptors ( 6 after Refit )..Use intergrated UIM ( use UIM even from R8
and less standard )
Label G-racks as X2 A racks.
Refit Adds X2 E-rack ( replaces A-racks with X2 B-racks ( 8 spaces ))
4 extra cargo boxes, 2 extra labs.
4 extra forward hull.
2 extra rear hull boxews ( 9 so use 3x3 )
S-Bridge
Full X-Aegis
ASIF Cost 4+7


( These are the rules for determining how much a power a newly designed
ship's ASIF will cost.

Simply multiply the number of each type of box that the ship has ( when
undamaged ) by the Multiplier and total the cost of all the boxes in that
power level. Round up to the next whole point of power except when dealing
with low power total that is below 0.5 which should round up to 0.5 points
of power.
Detemine the cost of Full power using all the box types and their totals and
then subtract out the Low Power Cost to determine the power consuption of
the ASIF as X+Y and list it under the life support cost in the ships
desription table.
Low Power.
Hull:- x 0.2
Excess Damage:- x 0.05
Armour:- x 0.1
Full Power
Cargo:- x 0.2
Barracks:- x 0.2
Control Boxes:- x 0.5
Lab:- x 0.4
Shuttle Bay Boxes ( does not include Jump racks as X ships don't have Jump
Racks ):- x 0.25
)

 

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