u/Glittering-Bit-873

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meaning it as a bit of a joke but an idea of how Captain Proton's rocket ship would work in sto, as a side note this ship is about 30 meters so just shorter then the maquis raider but larger then most small craft so why i have it as a ship instead of a shuttle
(this is meant for fun)

Captain proton’s rocket ship (Tier 6)

Type: rocket ship

Hull Modifier: 1.1
Shield Modifier: 1.3
Turn Rate: 21
Impulse Modifier: 0.21
Inertia Rating: 85
Warp core: matter anti-matter

Weapons:
5 fore
1 aft
Experimental weapon slot
Stations:
1X Command commander
2X lieutenant command universal
1X miracle worker lieutenant
1X ensign

Consoles:
4 tac
4 engi
2 sci
3 device slots

Universal console:
Chaotica’s Lightning shield
Passives: +30 photonic damage, +1.7 shield hardness
Click ability: when activated it disables primary shield and replaces it with a lightning shield that protects your ship from most damage while deflecting 50% of incoming damage back to the attacking enemy while also sending bolts of lighting alongside that deal small amounts of electrical damage. While active your ship loses all power to engines and weapons and is partially immune to all incoming damage until the duration of this is done. This effect will last 10 seconds and will have a 2 min cooldown

Trait:
Fortress of doom
when below 25 health, a sudden burst of photonic energy that deals _radiation damage to any nearby enemies (5 max at a 5 km radius) for 5 seconds, recharge time 5 min
a 25% cooldown reduction on photonic decoy
10% cooldown reduction on any photonic bridge officer abilities

Experimental weapon: Death Ray
90 firing arc
To target: _photonic damage
To self: -10 weapon power when fired
+60 crit severity

This ship unlocks a special weapon
Distructo beam arrays and dual beam banks

_Photonic damage (100% shield penetration
2.5% chance to overload all subsystems for 2 seconds