Grand Master

Cost
Mass
Tech Level
Duranium
Tritanium
Molybdenum

Large Weapons
Max Large Size
Small Weapons
Point Defense
Super Weapon

Max Fuel
Max Ord
Max Repair
Max Cargo

Engines
Generators
Power Bank

Armor Limit
Shield Limit

Pod Bays

Crew Size
Passengers

Fighter Bays
Fighter Bay Size
Construction Bay Size

Max Speed
Max Hyp Jump
Evasive Bonus
Attack Bonus
Warp Drag Factor
Warp Signature
Scan Range
Tractor Beam
Cloak Fuel Burn

Vulnerability To Weapons Fire
Parts / Hull
Control Systems
Engines
Hyperdrive
Lifesupport
Critical (Soft Spot)

One challenge for managing things as a playing host is having complete flexibility and discretion to add ships to the game. A conventional hull could be potentially boarded, towed, destroyed…

GRAND MASTER
A solution could be to make a ship that is completely over the top. Additionally another simple component would be to make a completely and obscenely over the top fighter type to be on that ship. Since this ship would be intended solely for host to add NPC elements into the game, this hull should be:

Omniscient – HUGE SCAN RANGE – 200,000
Omnipotent – HUGE, POWERFUL, PROTECTED, INVINCIBLE –> mass = 1 M, shield = 3000, armor = 1 M, 100,000 super fighters…millions of HG on board (immune to boarding) – immune to privateer devices
Omnipresent – capable of placing ships , add a device that will…transport all ships at Grand Master current location to their first waypoint.

Fighter bays – lots of big ones
Construction bay – big enough to build any NPC
Starting loadout – lots of MC and minerals, enough crew, guests, ord, fuel etc to load out ships in game.

The intent is not to take over a game, but provide a host with the ability to add elements anywhere at any time during the game.

It could also serve as a Cerberus like beast, but maybe that could be another NPC that could be more feasible to kill. A big nasty blocking the way to great riches or a game objective in some Heroic Quest scenario.

Cerberus sounds good too, but as a separate idea I think. Sure! "Complete nutters" might like to run a scenario of "everyone else" vs. "The Grand Master" - that would be their "choice". I guess by changing what it starts with it might be "scalable", but I think it should look distinctly "not part of the game - so go away!"

<Cerberus idea opened on new idea page>

IMO this sounds very useful for the host - as a tool. If it is essentially "not in the game" it could be parked quietly in a corner of the map - provided it can see everything from there. It wouldn't need graphics either really - just a black ship tile with the words "You haven't seen me, right?" written on it. 8) (as above example?)

What you want is "The Naked God" (see the book by Peter F. Hamilton)

It was actually a "device" made out of a naked singularity. Of necessity it was sentient. However it had no motivation to do much (once its creators had transcended). But it could be asked to do stuff. It was OK about helping people.

It reflected light (as the light could not penetrate it) and had an interesting shape. Sounds good for POVRAY. It needed no ship or fighter attributes. It could translocate objects pretty well anywhere. One primitive race thought it was a god, indeed they adopted it as their god, not that it was bothered by that.

It'd be treading wobbly boards to create "a God" object perhaps. If anything doesn't need graphics - its a host/scripter sitting in a ship watching youse guys?

Actually - provided it is indestructible, intrinsically - and uncapturable - all that. It could even look like the Tourist, for example.