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Introducing a new start-up shipyard located within Ontiat orbital space. They will be offering a range of design solutions which adhere to classical forms and functions. The company is staffed with a dedicated team of draftsmen and engineers, and run by the legendary figure of Ontiatian space-faring history (known only on Ontiat), Ninu Á . Although 200 years of age, she is still a hale and hearty reptile. Once a year, for six cycles of Rynôth, Ninu has holidayed on Tionisla. SoloTek will close their doors during this period, according to her wishes.

Down to business: SoloTek Industries has a number of projects at various stages. The marketing department has been feverishly wording and re-wording a press release for the craft seen below, photographed during it's initial test flight. Full details will be available soon.
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CaptSolo wrote:
Introducing a new start-up shipyard located within Ontiat orbital space.
Oh yeah, more ships to come! :D That's awesome! Looking forward to it!
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Looks like an instant download when ready. I like that you add ships in a 'core style' yet different.
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CaptSolo wrote:
Introducing a new start-up shipyard located within Ontiat orbital space.
Reckon you should make a shipyard station OXP, one that sells your ships only. Not sure if that is possible. I can imagine it having the SoloTek logo on the sides of the station in big letters.
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JazHaz wrote:
Reckon you should make a shipyard station OXP, one that sells your ships only. Not sure if that is possible.
Not sure either. The big stumbling block is my almost total lack of scripting ability.
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[wiki]SoloTek Industries[/wiki] first product line has reached a shipyard near you, the [wiki]Copperhead Mk. II OXP[/wiki]. This is a total re-design of the original Copperhead model. The Wiki page has all the pertinent info and box.com download link.

Many thanks to El Viejo for shader testing.
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That Copperhead Mk II Wiki link is slightly wrong, Solo.
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More than slightly! Fixed now. Thanks again, amigo.
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Sweet ship... I just bagged a nice fat Python and its two escorts in one.
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Thanks. As a Jameson play tester, I traded in my Cobby 3 and with the difference was able to add some good kit and fill the cargo bay. I did quite well with her.
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The media department of SoloTek Industries has released this image of the new Shuriken prior to it's soon availability. Ship specs are still being kept under wraps until that time.
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:shock: Wow great looking ship Captsolo.
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Very nice design! :D

I´m looking forward to the release of this fine looking ship.
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The new Shuriken has been released and you might find one at a tech level nine system near you.
[wiki]Shuriken OXP[/wiki]

FYI:
Following on from past experience, this ship comes with two diffuse textures with a specular map in the alpha channel, a normal map and an effects map. Both of the latter have grey scale maps in the alpha channel that are accessed by Jen's custom fragment shader originally created for Griff's Adder. The alternate diffuse texture is for the pirate role whose probability of spawning is 10% This pirate has 4X lasers installed, forward and aft beam, port and starboard pulse lasers.

I am not able to test the shaders on my computer. If problems or any weird texture rendering is witnessed, please reply in this thread so I can address it.

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These are really nice, I like them very much. Are you going to redo your other ships too (Accipiter, Moccasin, Scimitar and the rest of the Silver Ships)? I see that Cobra Mk3-XT is already in the works.

Btw. Link to the Silver Ships seems to be broken in the wiki.
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