With Regards to the IMG Gunboat

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The thing not addressed here is there is a little sloppy imbalance in ship types of what quality available to which factions.

There are reasons to want to use a gunboat in rp--in our case with Junkers--and to say, "Well--just work with the available ships" limits our rp in some particular cases. We can buy a cruiser at our base and a bomber and a slew of fighters but no gunboat. Fact is we need a cruiser less and a gunboat more.

Now we could all go buy cruisers and be "in rp" (I'm being facetious there) but fact is we don't need or want to.

So unlawful gunboats don't go down well with a faction that "lives" in lawful space. The Hogosha have a similar problem though the Kusari Explorer fills the gunboat niche nicely for them.

IMG--by virtue that its "independent--at least is somewhat plausible. We'll be happy to rp a purchase elsewhere or with new ships but its a good overall choice until a better alternative is presented.

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