Taurus Class Scout

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Taurus Class Scout
Taurus Class Scout Prerequisites Tech Level 1 Cost 1,300 MC Duranium 60 Tritanium 20 Molybdenum 0	Personnel Crew Size 123 Guests 500 Cargo Max. Cargo 200 Max. Fuel 900 Max. Ord 2,000 Max. Repair 800 Cargo (Extended) Pod Bays 2 Fighter Bays - Tractor Beam -	Ship Parts Large Weapons 2 (150kt) Small Weapons 6 Super Weapon - Point Defense 2 Generators 1 Armor Limit 950 Shield Limit 210	Warp Movement Engines 1 (110LY) Warp Drag Factor 50 Hyperjump Class - Range - Scanning Scan Range 280 Warp Signature 120 Cloak (Fuel) - Dry Dock Size -	Space Combat Attack Bonus 20 Evasive Bonus 0 Power Bank 800 Damage Modifiers Hull Mass 80 Parts 60 Control System 220 Engines 150 Hyper Drive 100 Life Support 125 Soft Spot 1

[edit] Overview

An able scout and cargo ship, the Taurus is one of your fastest ships (max hull speed 110) and sports two POD bays. If you like it can carry a pair of large weapons along with six small weapons (only two PD slots however). Use your Taurus to setup mining colonies, farming colonies (if you set them up at all, I use the Aquila Class rather than farms) and bring natives back to your home world. Later you may find it more convenient to build POD launchers and the exotic POD speed techs, removing the need for you to manage your shipments (just set the destination as the boost target and the POD will fly at 80LY a turn after you buy the exotic techs).

The only other ship you have with POD bays and a max speed of 110 is the Pisces and at 1,800 credits and 850 total metal it costs considerably more than the Taurus (at only 400 credits and 80 total metal).

Actually, the Taurus is a halfway decent swarming ship. Put a sandcaster and a fusion cannon or PPC on it, and it is more cost effective than even the Pisces or Virgo. Just remember to build it without armor. Set it on repair armor instead and dock a pod with 5k repair units.

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[edit] Useful Configurations

If your using your Taurus only for transport the bare bones build will work fine, although you may consider armor and shields. If you want to launch a relatively cheap raiding ship to attack mining colonies, farming colonies or 1-man bases, look at the second build (small base raider).

		Bare Bones		Small Base Raider
Large Weapons		< None >		(2) Blaster Cannon
Small Weapons		< None >		(6) Pulsed Laser
Point Defense		< None >		(2) Auto Blaster
Engines		(1) FTL-4 Warp Drive		(1) Transwarp Drive
Generators		< None >		< None >
Shield		< None >		Corber 210
Armor		< None >		950
Cost		700 credits		2,680 credits
		67 Duranium		79 Duranium
		25 Tritanium		29 Tritanium
		17 Molybdenum		132 Molybdenum
§Sustained Fire		( No Weapons)		100,000

§Ticks that the ship can fire with a full ord. load, calculated using Diplomat

[edit] See Also

• [1] Official Ship Stats