If they want to get those licences, get the licence & equipement needed for those Bastions.
Then go from there.
John Davion will jump on it, thinking he's buying them out, only to keep coming.
They have the Recharge Station, currently, so they could use that one as a construction hub.
A Carrack is one other such interesting licence.
But what about the Royalty?
It's basically a upscaled Tramp, that can take Invader & Star Lord parts for upkeep.
A Athena could be a nice starting block for a homemade repairship, if you think about it.
Jus take a look at the M9 Pavice it's enclosed shipyard.
So it might be a shape that you could want to be upscalled.
Even as a fabrication station, it could work, nicely armored hull.
I feel the Athena hull shape is perfect, same as the M9 Pavice, for a future space station, that could in the future, get a jumpcore.
Kinda perfect if they can get a jumpcore caster or two, as well, now that I think about it.
A mobile jumpcore caster & refinery, for say Endo-Steel.
So start running some numbers, 2ndArc, see if a enlarged Athena & M9 Pavice hull combi, could work as a future mobile, big hull parts, fabrication hub.
Two big refinery wheels (the Athena her grav-decks) and I bet that if you lengthen the engine block, you could fit a few more grav-decks, vertically, using a mag-lev train system to move it around the hull, so a modified Athena grav-deck.
The M9 Pavice grav-deck setup, is perfect for this look, actually and the two enclosed dockyard sections, could be lined on the sides their undersides, meet, with a row of dropship repair bays.
Heck, if the twelve dropships collars of the M9 Pavice, can be kept....
What for warcore would you need?
A Potemkin or Newgrange one?
Funny thing is, if you can get a warcore, you might be able to do something similar with the Scout & Argo setup, if if completely homebrew, using Snowden & Bastion parts.
On that, get Snowden Licence & manufactoring as well, might pair nicely with the Bastions.
And invest in small & large factory manufactoring, if possible.
Do account for the fact, that if you sell the Germanium of those derlict ships, you won't be able to cast new cores for them.
See if you can go warcore, in order to lower the ammount of Germanium needed.
Only needing 40% of 95%, lets you sell 55% of it.
Adding a fuel bunker, cooling liquid bunkers, L-F batteries & food production, could then be possible, maybe even a Behemoth Command Deck and other fun goodies, including extra frame support frames, to replace the jumpcore frame.
Might even allow STL engines to be added, later on.
Thing is, they need their own jumpcore casting ability, so start a order for that Newgrange Caster and the other machinery, they really need, like the ability to manufacture fusion engines, new machinery and so on.
A (SLDF {M11???}) Newgrange was said to be able to copy itself, if given enough time.
Can they get the needed missing machinery?
Because then they can start doing some machinery copying, while expending.
O and a fun fact, their Attached Civillian Companies, are both part of the Unit and not, so they can easily hire new folks.
It even lets them bypass it all, by turning The Unit, more Corperate in setup, as in, a in-house merc-unit that is hired to run The Unit equipement.
They just need a new Mother Company for everything and it has to be Civillian in nature, to bypass the FS restriction, yet still with enough power behind it, to be able to dictate military matters, like say, Sector Government Council of the planets under the protection of The Unit.
One item they need, is healthcare.
That always will return a interest.
Same with the SLDF Command Center, it's equipement.
Do suggest in getting planetary clean-up and terraforming gear,
To bad they don't have a Dome Sub-unit, nea?
