Why can't the Osiris be Liberty built?

[McNeo]

You know I always wondered the same thing.

The Order apparently stole the working prototype and destroyed all of the plans. Not that I believe that hugely intelligent scientists forget all of what they've written down just because they cant read it over again. Nor do I believe it was significantly emphasised in the published but admittedly incomplete history of Sirius written by the original designers of this game.

Then again, if it were open to all, I bet we'd see many LN Osiris' lolling about, all being state-of-the-art experimental prototypes with jump drives, cloaking, morphing like transformers etc etc.

Restriction of ships to your own ID by the official faction of that ID is currently against the rules also. An official faction cannot prevent someone of that ID doing something which isn't against canon (though, with the TCG, one wouldn't be so sure of the precedent). None the less, [LN] wouldn't be able to restrict who got the Osiris, were it open to the ID, in the same way that it cannot restrict who has dreadnoughts. The spyglass falls under the same bracket.

LSF ID doesnt permit battleships also.

I think the main issue is, people need to stop stealing battleships from Liberty. Its quite unrealistic to steal a ship that large, as well as destroy or pilfer all the design schematics too. And, twice, to two different top-secret designs? And it hasn't happened to the other houses? Come on, Liberty can't be that incompetant.