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The smaller the ship is, the more important efficient reactor design is. This means that if you build a ship large enough, you don't need to worry about their placement too much, and can arrange them in artistic shapes.

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When you get to about a million power regen, you're going to be packing reactors into any free space available just to squeeze out a tiny, tiny bit more power, paying no heed to their shape at all, because you don't get any bonus at that point. In the latest version, the reactor power bonus tapers off after a bit, following a logarithmic curve where you get an initial boost but eventually lose your bonus entirely. If you design for aesthetics, you're probably going to throw a lot of efficiency out the window. The most powerful vessels for their size look essentially like Borg Cubes. This is because you get exponential power bonuses for extending the external dimensions of clustered power modules. The game mechanics heavily favor rotationally-symmetric ships that are huge on all three axes. Weapons arrays the mass of entire corvettes. Multiple spinal-mount guns that are just as powerful as the Odin's one. See that turret under the hangar? Battleships have upwards of six larger ones. You don't want to know what these folks classify as a 'Battleship'. Aesir's brochures refer to it as a 'Light Expeditionary Frigate'. It is more accurately defined as a mining survey and exploration ship armed for high-profile corporate security and interdiction missions, with a secondary function as an advertisement of Aesir's capabilities, and a tertiary function as an electronic warfare and command/control vessel. It's too ostentatious for a military vessel, where every ounce of unnecessary weight must be shaved off and protection around vital compartments greatly enhanced. It's got cavernous spaces, flower planters, lots of windows, and places where the hull gets almost dangerously thin. I mean it has a bunch of things that a warship of its size wouldn't have. Now, when I say that the Odin isn't a warship, I don't mean it isn't suited for battle.

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