Recent content by IDontHaveAName

After killing Specialist McGuffin in the comm room, whose pilot's wings did the Concordia's mandarin place in his hand?

Hmm... the Excal vs. Centurion thing is confused by the fact that, in spite of being simultaneous, Privateer and WC3 have no common ships except the ubiquitous Dralthi, and even in the case of the Dralthi, they're different models. The Privateer Dralthi is more like a WC2 "Drakhri" than a WC3...

What are your thoughts on the relation between the WC2 Epée and the Privateer Talon? My theory: Confed ordered a bunch of epées, but later found them unsatisfactory as fighters in light of the development of the arrow, so it "cannibalized" the best parts of the epee (its fast engines, etc)...

Another question related to privateer trading. When smuggling contraband (a lot of it, that is: more than can go in that secret compartment), if you can scanned, there's a brief moment between the "scanning: maintain speed and course" and "contraband detected" in which the autopilot flashes on...

I think that the dialogue with the Confeds explians partly whey there are no jump lines out of the sector: they say "your profile's cleared to sector's edge." The implication is that your profile is NOT clear outside of the sector. Maybe you need a license to operate in each sector, and the jump...

What do you think are the best profitable profiteer trade routes? I'm not talking about the stuff from the merchants guild about "take 10 units of iron to New Detroit for $10,000." I'm talking about just buying the iron in Achilles and selling it in New Detroit. The most profitable route I've...