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[lfnfan]

Which Spaceship!

Our sub-ether holo-facsimile machine chugged into life this morning, and rolled out a very interesting document from one of our more reputable anonymous sources.

Which Spaceship is proud to divulge yet another stellar scoop: a draft press release hot off the desk of the Cowell & MgRath Shipyards, Lave, Marketing Department. Whilst we can’t reproduce the exact text of the document (protecting our sources and all that), we summarise as follows:

[drum roll] It's not particularly sleek or sexy, but it will plug a very profitable gap in Cowell & MgRath's Cobra line-up (we told our stockbrokers the same thing just this morning). Humanoids, Felines, Aquatics, Insectoids, Sentient Beings of No Identifiable Species, it is: [/drum roll]

The Cobra Mk III 'Carrier'

Vital statistics:
Space: 45TC cargo bay, that's before you fit the 15TC expansion. Standard 5TC passenger berths can also be accommodated. WxHxL is not a million miles off the original CMk3 (or is that CMk2?) hull dimensions.
Handling: 3.35LM max flight speed. Same pitch and roll characteristics as the original CMk3, thrust being on a par with the ever-popular Cobra Mk III ‘Courier’.
Armament: 3 fully configurable pylons (will you miss a fourth?), fore and aft weapon mounts (military laser compatibility only - ouch!), all other standard - and not so standard - shipyard equipment can be fitted.
Price tag: Cr285,000
Provenance: your guess is as good as ours - something that got left on the cutting room floor after the Pimp My Cobra competition ended? Fall-out from the Thargoid-incursion-at-Diso / nanobot episode? Or maybe even that someone in the Design department at Cowell & MgRath has actually done some work?
In showrooms from: give them a chance, they haven't even announced it exists yet!

Our verdict:
If trading is your bag, and your pilot and combat skills will make up for the Carrier’s little less speed and little less heat, then welcome to your new ride.

You may also like:
Mosquito Trader (cheaper, faster, bigger dimensions); Pelamis (2 more missile pylons, leather seats, terrible acceleration); Josher (half the price, twice the missile pylons, no military shield option); SuperCobra (dream on).

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[Killer Wolf]

where's the pics?

[Cmdr Wyvern]

No photos? Then it didn't happen.

[pmw57]

No photos? Then it didn't happen.

And with photos - Photoshopped!

ye cannae win

[Commander McLane]

Small nitpick: It's What Spaceship?, not Which Spacecraft! (except you want to add your own entry to Other Ficticious Magazines)

[lfnfan]

You want pics? No need: the Cobra Mk III Carrier will look exactly like the Cobra Mk III, unless Cowell & MgRath can co-opt a skilled graphic artist into the project...

Thanks for the point of detail Commander M. I coulda swore they changed the name of that publication between yesterday and today...

[Commander McLane]

Thanks for the point of detail Commander M. I coulda swore they changed the name of that publication between yesterday and today...

Be my guest.

However: You only corrected one third of the title. It has to be "What" instead of "Which", and in the end there is a questionmark instead of an exclamationmark. Just follow the link and read the title.

Oh, and by the way: feel free to photoshop your own issue of "What Spaceship?" and put it on the wiki.

[lfnfan]

there it goes again, changing before my very eyes.

sad to say, but the marginal utility i am deriving from this thread is now less than that to be gained from writing up 8 pages of notes from a meeting I had 2 weeks ago.

[Svengali]

Or you could read this

[Cholmondely]

there it goes again, changing before my very eyes.

Details now added to the What Spaceship? wiki page