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@Samebito and ASTA: wow, lots of cats and dogs. Firstly, as I mentioned I've asked players to play ships HSR 3 or less. I think for xenos privateers/allies, I'll ask you guys to play as HSR 2 or below ships (you can play as more than one- a small fleet or task force, perhaps?- and the ships can be of xenos origin and design). It doesnt really make sense for a humanocrentric state like the Kingdom to give the most powerful hardware to mercenaries and xenos auxiliaries.
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Vres received her equipment from her own people, not the Kingdom. They're not a protectorate nor a subject species, but more like a sizable alliance of chiefdoms that rent out a percentage of their respected space forces to suitable buyers in exchange for partial (or full) looting rights.

The limitation on alien ship sizes, at least from my POV, seems arbitrary. 

I must've missed the bit on HSR4s, however.
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Gotcha. I guess that works. Could you do a HSR3 merc-raider w/ HSR2 and HSR1 escorts? You may want to work out how your xenos ship compares to the Imperial models used by the barbarians and the Kingdom. My sense is that it would be somewhat technologically inferior, but may boast some advantages for its unorthodox construction. Seems like we have a lot of raiders/mercs/privateers in this RP. I may adjust how the IC was going to start accordingly.

Also, I'd be curious to know about your xenos' history during the Empire and the Dark Ages, and how they came to work for the Kingdom.
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I wouldn't say he's 'inferior'--but Apedemak was made to be robust. Those that engineered him valued simplicity, durability, reliability, functionality, and redundancy over aesthetics and the implementation of state of the art technology, hence why his design paradigms (somewhat) mirror those of the august T-72 MBT or the A-10 Thunderbolt II and not customary aircraft or seacraft. Basically, he's a space tank--er, correction: a [i]super-heavy[/i] space tank with an over-clocked bundle of [s]torch drives[/s] nuclear salt-water rockets welded to his ass. A proper Lightning Bruiser if you will. 

You might've come to view Apedemak as technologically primitive after having noticed his lack of a fusion or antimatter reactor suite and Vres' utter distaste for fighters and DEWs (as well as coilguns and railguns). I've never liked antimatter reactors on account of them being both overused in fiction [i]and[/i] having a knack of going absolutely [i]fail deadly[/i] when the containment fields are cut; fusion, while safer than an AM reactor, isn't dirty or 'rusty' enough for what I'm going for. Railguns and coilguns are, again, overused, thus Vres uses fission pulse cannons (which utilize a shaped nuclear charge to propel a projectile out of a barrel at hypervelocity speeds) and launch cells packed full of high-yield, thermonuclear MIRV-esque missiles. In all honesty, Apedemak doesn't need anything better than fission because none of his weapon systems are power hungry enough to warrant the use of anything better.

And as for the lack of fighters? That's simple. 

They were never my thing.

I don't know what the Kingdom's technology is truly like because I don't have much information to go off of.

I would've turned him into a fully-autonomous warship with exactly 32 crew members, but no one wants to read about Donald the Destruction Drone and his loyal button pusher and leaver puller subjects.