Order Gunboat

[Tenacity]

another beautiful ship jinx =)


EDIT:

Just my input as a long time order player - I personally like having a ship derived from zoner models. The zoners and order are, IMO, more closely allied than even the order and corsairs - the corsair/order alliance was basically them letting us use their shipyards, after we gave them both technology and ship designs, we got little but manufacturing ability out of it.

When you first released the zoner gunboat model, I had planned on using one of them for my order character as a converted ship with stealth recon/surveillance in mind. The zoner shape looks very sleek and stealthy, perfectly fitting for a small recon strike craft like this - and this new model looks even better.

It makes sense, to me anyways, that the order would look into making joint zoner/order technology, moreso than order/corsair or orderberty technology. While many of the order's own designs are still based on liberty ships - that's only because that's what they started out with, and they had no real design inspiration of their own.

The corsairs are not technologically advanced, IMO - they have some decent equipment, but they get by on numbers and tactics, not top-notch research and weapons development. The zoners, on the other hand, put a -lot- of investment into developing advanced technology for their ships, because that's their livelihood - and the order thinks the same way. Rather than using swarming numbers, we rely on small groups of ships equipped with the very best tech, and flown by the very best pilots, to survive on the edge of space.

There are a ton of other 'new age' designs being put into other factions by modelers here, I dont see it as a stretch that the order might put investing into a new generation of stealth combat vessels like this. They have more survivability and utility at their disposal than just fighters, along with more firepower, and arent really all that much larger or more expensive to make. Think about it - one gunboat with advanced tech is equivalent to an entire squadron of fighters, and has the room and storage capacity to run research or recon missions into enemy territory for extended periods of time without having to find a place to land every 8 hours so the pilots can take a piss =P

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