>(Rather like the blaster bomb in X-COM: Enemy Unknown.) A lovely weapon when teamed with flying armour. Make a hole in a wall/roof and then send a sweeper team in.
>Rumor has it the IPO starship design team are working with a Corellian
>firm on a somewhat smaller starship class requiring a much smaller
>crew, to beef up the Experts fleet without making the demands on the
>IPO's manpower that staffing another Sovereign-class vessel
>would require. Rumor further has it that the new ship will carry a QT
>launcher. As of yet, the IPO isn't admitting to anything, but the
>most reliable word on the street is that the prototype will be ready
>for testing in the summer of 2406.
My guess is that it would be either the Prometheus class without that fwerid multi-vector assault mode, the Defiant-class, or the Nova-class (aka USS Equinox).
The Steamrunner, Norway and Saber classes to me don't seem to fit the IPOs design brief or the general UF warp propelled starship design scheme.
--Rod.H
"Oooh...Sectoid." *click...Boom* "Dead Sectoid."