[Spaceships] Can Spinal Battery be bundles of smaller weapons?

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

The requirement that a Spinal Battery occupy 2 Core systems makes it impossible to have more than 1. You only have 2 Core systems.

They only occupy one core system:

A spinal battery is actually three systems: one system may occupy any non- core front hull location, one system is located in the core of the central hull, and one system may be in any non-core rear hull location.

The catch is that you can only have one central core system.

Originally Posted by Agemegos

I wonder whether you could use the "Smaller Systems" rule to split a front and both cores into three each, and then combine a system from each of them into a "smaller" spinal battery?

I'd allow doing this to split up that central core system, and thus be able to have three small spinal mounts. I don't see that it would ruin anything.