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Xi'An Scout Now Available! (through Friday, June 27)


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Xi'an Scout Ship going on SALE tomorrow for ONE DAY ONLY(most likely one day. actually might be a week i dunno)

 

Xi’an Scout Unlocked! The Khartu is the light attack craft of the Xi’An military. Contrary to Human ship design, the Khartu doesn’t have a traditional main thruster, instead featuring an array of maneuvering thrusters on articulated rigs. This design allows for incredible agility, making them the bane of UEE pilots, who bestowed the nickname ‘Quark’ because when all of the thrusters are firing, the ship looks like a spark flying through space. The Xi’an Aopoa corporation also manufactures an export model, the Khartu-al, for sale to human civilians as a dedicated scout/explorer. The export model features the same Xi’an maneuvering rig, but control surfaces modified for human use and a more limited armament.

 

Expect it to be more than $150.00 USD.

 

According to stats, this ship will be the 2nd fastest in the entire game, after the m50.

Also expect this to have the same amount of firepower as the superhornet.

 

Guess who's selling their lancer MIS for this ship <3 *me* > :D

 

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Don't let the word "scout" in its name fool you. It's an attack fighter, plain and simple. It's the Superhornet's rival. 

 

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No money, still hope for a cross chassic upgrade from the 300i to the avenger.

Wouldnt that be a downgrade monetarily? Why not just melt the 300i and get a 'venger and some change?

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Certainly looks like an interesting ship, but with its height I'm kind of doubting that it will fit in anything but a Bengal carrier and maybe not even that.  Obviously most of the time for any fighter would be spent with a  jump engine equipped, but for operations where an escort carrier(for example) was available I'd definitely like to have the option to remove the jump engine and either use that slot for something useful or at least decrease my overall weight for increased performance.  If it can't be carried, that limits its flexibility by quite a bit.

 

Haven't done anything approaching an exhaustive search, but what are you basing the speculation that the xi'an scout will be comparable in firepower to a SH on?  The speed I understand, given the power plant size and thrusters of the scout combined with the significantly reduced weight compared to the Super Hornet.  But surely being ~8,000 kg lighter with powerful engines comes at the cost of weapons.  I'd love to be wrong, and lord knows the posted ship specs need to be taken with a grain of salt, but still.

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Certainly looks like an interesting ship, but with its height I'm kind of doubting that it will fit in anything but a Bengal carrier and maybe not even that.  Obviously most of the time for any fighter would be spent with a  jump engine equipped, but for operations where an escort carrier(for example) was available I'd definitely like to have the option to remove the jump engine and either use that slot for something useful or at least decrease my overall weight for increased performance.  If it can't be carried, that limits its flexibility by quite a bit.

 

Haven't done anything approaching an exhaustive search, but what are you basing the speculation that the xi'an scout will be comparable in firepower to a SH on?  The speed I understand, given the power plant size and thrusters of the scout combined with the significantly reduced weight compared to the Super Hornet.  But surely being ~8,000 kg lighter with powerful engines comes at the cost of weapons.  I'd love to be wrong, and lord knows the posted ship specs need to be taken with a grain of salt, but still.

 

trust me ;)

 

also, the 2nd picture shows the fighter folded up when landing.

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So.. you are telling me that a "Scout Ship" is going to have the same firepower as a Anvil Aerospace Superhornet?  I am not sure I believe that at all.  There is no way it can be the 2nd fastest ship and have as much firepower as a Superhornet.  It totally goes against the Rock, Paper, Scissors idea that CR wants for the ships.

 

Zero Null Cero

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And btw melt is no option because I'd like to keep my LTI.

 

Ahh right sure, I didn't look because I was just trying to go off memory.  And you can transfer your LTI to the Avenger I thought, or did they do away with LTI transfers?

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