You'd be surprised at what having the prototype stolen does to investor opinions on whether or not a very expensive piece of hardware is worth putting money into.
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' Wrote:I've always assumed that when Order agents stole the prototype, they destroyed data containing the blueprints of the Osiris. So Liberty scientists couldn't reproduce it easily.
Also, there isn't any lore that states Liberty HAS NOT continued with the Osiris design.
See, the problem here is that everyone jumps in and write his conclusion on the matter. There is nothing that says what happened to the whole team. Nothing about the blueprints. Nothing about the performance and cost of the ship. Nothing about the availability of the technologies after the war (except the cloak one). etc. etc. etc. etc.
You can write all you want, but no one is right in the end because there is NO factual data on the matter.
The osiris was a secret project. In my view all the people involved in making it defected to the order and destroyed the blueprints.. So it is impossible to reproduce the osiris
I believe the original Osiris has since been improved upon, with the Order using some Nomad tech in the design. The original vessel did not have this, the current makes, while using the same hull, are a different ship internally. That is tech that Liberty cannot duplicate - yet.
That would be my take on this. They stole a prototype. Upgraded it. It's a different ship now.
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Who says they can't build it? I just don't see any reason for them to do so when the Liberty Dreadnought is totally pimpin' and they already have 124897098263894371274 caps.
EDIT: Also what the guy above me said. The Osiris used by the Order now is not the Osiris of 20 years ago.
' Wrote:I've always assumed that when Order agents stole the prototype, they destroyed data containing the blueprints of the Osiris. So Liberty scientists couldn't reproduce it easily.
Also, there isn't any lore that states Liberty continued with the Osiris design. Maybe the goverment deemed it to be inferior to the Liberty Dreadnought and ditched the project. Perhaps they're working on an improvement on the original Osiris project. Who knows.