LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-01 AT 05:55 PM (EDT)

>>Since you're not using
>>Assault Gunboats
>
>Oh, the Delta class (or "Star Wing", if you prefer) is around;
>I just didn't mention it because it's not one of Rayna's designs.
>It's a product of one of GENOM's subsidiaries, Cygnus Spaceworks (most
>famous for the Lambda-class personnel shuttle).
>
>The Experts of Justice have contracted with Cygnus for a warp-powered
>variant of the Delta, tentatively named the Epsilon
>class, to provide patrol sensor and fighter capabilities to the
>newly-formed Special Projects Division's small space fleet.
>
>(We don't call them gunboats because a gunboat is a small warship, not
>a medium space fighter.)

Aaaaah. Damn...now that you mention it I remember seeing the 'Star Wing' a long time ago and wondering if you renamed the Gunboats like you did the X and Y-wings...after all, TIE Fighter was the only spaceflight sim I'd had any real knowledge of way back when. Never did get into the Wing Commanders. Thanks for clearing that up. Now all we need is the introduction of the ridiculous (but oh so handy) Missile Boat. Then again, that won't be for another aeon or so. Give or take a few millennia.

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Hmm...could the Epsilon be a rename of the Escort Shuttle? It was a bigger version of the Lambda, a fixed three-wing design with three wingtip lasers and a rear turret. You learned to fear that turret if you didn't have shields. =P But I'm quite sure it was a Cygnus design, oddly enough.

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