(was in re Agreement in Principle)>You have to admit, the Valkyrie would be a pretty awesome
>candidate for the RetroTech treatment.
Certain engineers at New Avalon Aviation agree with you, or will in about 20 in-story years. (Check out the "future plans" part at the end.)
>Possibly too small for Azula's purposes, though. :)
Not much "possibly" about it; there's not even room for hiber-pods in there, let alone real crew accommodations.
Mind you, even in the real world, the Valkyrie's profile (snrk, I just realized what I did there) was subject to a bit of scale uncertainty. A star yacht that shape wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility as a deeply quirky custom order...
... I may go with that. I mean, we haven't seen the Phoenix Queen yet.
Azula wouldn't have ordered such a thing, but she would certainly have been more than willing to "liberate" it from its corrupt and vicious owner (like the Ebon Hawk) or win it in a contest of skill, wits, and/or nerve - the time-honored methods for independent contractors getting their start...
--G.
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