What if there is machinery, researchable or unique (i prefer research with one round start)
Those machine would need a lot of material (gold plateel silver and plastic)
and those machine would use A LOT of power
like a station worth of power so it make edyson useful
make those machine REALLY hard to use
(inspired by frontier edyson rework that have machine to make AME fuel as an engie gameloop)
#An idea to make ship weapon
leaden ether
balmy pawn
Like a death star beam or what?
leaden ether
no just a machine like a protolathe but bigger that would need like 2.5gw just to powerup that make a ton of heat
so making ship weapon is hard and not just toss 40k for a charon
could let us make a singulo tesla or even SM to do so
(Frontier make a PR to balance singulo and tesla)
balmy pawn
Make it a 4x4 machine that require 4 parts, configured in the right way. High power draw, tech limited, and that produce heat and that can make some of the the weaponds. Sure. I green it
leaden ether
since you can't really balance ship weapon arround money making harder or something you need to plan to have them is for me an idea
you could still just buy, unanchor anchor some weapon but for the bigest i like this idea
brave pier