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Asp Mk I and Asp Explorer with new HUDs
Submitted by Wolfwood on Tue, 2006-04-25 08:27. Equipment | NPC Ships | Player Ships | Ships 

Asp Mark I is based on the model used for Asp in ArchElite, which is very different from any Asp in any other version of the Elite. It offers a slightly smaller, poor man's version of the Asp Mk II, a bit smaller, a bit weaker but with a very small amount of cargo space.

ArchElite also professed a variant Asp model that is different enough from the one used above to varrant a separate ship. This one is called Asp Explorer (after the Asp in FFE) and it is somewhere between Asp Mk I and Asp Mk II in speed, but slightly above Mk II in strength. But it is also a bit larger than the regular Asp Mk II and is slower at roll and pitch. 

Additionally, because of its size, the ship also has a large tank for fuel, allowing almost two consequtive jumps without the necessity to refuel at the local sun.

Both of these ships come with a re-imagined HUD. The package also includes a HUD for the regular Asp Mark II, for those who want to use it for the regular ship (but you'll have to edit the shipdata for Asp Mk2 yourself).

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Shadows from the Past
Submitted by Draco_Caeles on Thu, 2006-06-29 11:30. NPC Ships 
Space holds many mysteries: all spacers learn this, some sooner, some later. Ships take off from a station and are lost without a trace; some are wormholed across the galaxy, or even between galaxies, leaving the pilot stranded; some pass through witchspace in seconds and have aged a thousand years, the ship's crew aged to dust on the consoles.

And then there are the legends...

There is a legend of ships containing cities, fields, rivers and forests, launched into space in the first flush of mankind's outward urges. Ships that would travel at a snail's space across the light years bearing its fragile cargo to other worlds. Ships that would be so long in flight that hundreds of years would pass between their launching and their planetfall, and that in the intervening time its cargo would have replaced itself dozens of times over, generation succeeding generation succeeding generation, each one accepting the torch of hope, each one keeping the dream alive.

The generation ships.

In these enlightened times, of course, no-one believes a word of them.
But sometimes, a grizzled spacer, deep in his cups and trying to forget the image of a Fer-de-Lance bearing down on him or the swarm of Thargoids in that asteroid belt at Oninre, tells a tale of a witch-space jump gone wrong, his engines depositing him in that nowhere place between the dimensions. He will speak of a massive ship, kilometres long, that ignored his hails as it crept along at a snail's pace, its hull battered and scored and blackened by space. And he will speak of a name still visible, just, on that hull.

... Then perhaps another spacer will buy him a drink, and whisper quietly of another ship, another name...

... another shadow from the past...

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The Tiger Mark I
Submitted by cybertiger on Wed, 2006-03-08 11:26. NPC Ships | Player Ships | Ships 

The Tiger Mark I.

The Tiger class cruisers are a range of highly agile craft designed for combat, with much of the ship's interior being devoted to the engines and ship computer, this leaves little space for cargo, though still far more than you could find in a frigate such as the Cobra Mark III.

The Mark I is the ship of choice for pirates and bounty hunters, originally developed by Cyberian Labs™ on their home-world of Xexedi. It's rumoured that navy has acquired a copy of the schematics (it's quite hard to hide sending an armada of police ships into an Anarchy class system) and is rumoured to be working on the Mark II as their ships are not well equipped to combat the Mark I.

Owing to the home-world being an Anarchy very few of these ships are available on the market, and where they are theyare highly priced.

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Terrapin
Submitted by Cmdr Wyvern on Sun, 2006-04-23 18:50. NPC Ships | Player Ships | Ships 

A weird little ship I banged on during my free time.
Updated to fix a glaring bug.

This is what happens when a heavy pickup truck, a stealth bomber, a UFO, the standard Cobras and their OXP variants wind up in an alien breeding program. :) Basically a small, uniquely weird fighter-trader that's specced slightly above normal, but not into uberkill.
I trust you find the Terrapin a worthwhile ride, capabable of anything you want to do, and a good upgrade to your startup Cobra.

Pilots turned pirate be warned: Traders flying Terrapins have a small chance of dropping a ticking q-bomb when they get killed. 

UPDATE:
For some reason, pirate Terrapins keep pirate Pythons from being spawned. v1.5 removes the pirate Terrapin, and better arms the hunter.

--- Wyvern