Why did you choose the Aegis Gladius as the test subject for Master Modes instead of starter ships like the Aurora and Mustang?

That's a good question. It's basically our reference ship internally. Because it's the most popular ship for us. It's our baseline ship. And it's got a specific handling. It's got a broad sense of skills and purpose for that ship. It's a really good ship from a handling perspective. Because it's got a mix of fixed thrusters, rotational thrusters. And the speed of it just meant a sense of where we wanted to test combat. We did pick the Gladius, but we also picked other ships from different categories as well. Tested at the same time. But that's just been the main ship we've used.

It's the most well set up ship with Master Modes in mind at the moment. As Rich said, we've tested a bunch of other ones. We've had some tuning set up for a Hornet. We've had some tuning set up for 300i. And then a few bigger ships as well. We tested out the Vanguard, the Constellation. There was a few others. There was a bunch of them after a while. And trying to fit what the niche is for each individual ship. What the max speed can be in this specific Master Mode. What the thrusters can do. The Constellation has a bunch of different turrets on it. How does that affect it? We ended up doing playtests with... What happens if we have two fully manned Constellations against five Gladiuses? And see what happens. And then does that match what our expectations end up being? How does a 300i fight against a Gladius? What should it be doing? Those kind of things. Right now the Gladius is the core example. It's the core example as well because it's the main ship in Squadron. Master Mode was developed for Squadron. So that's a major reason as well. There's a bunch of other ships that we've prototyped at least. We haven't just focused on just the Gladius at least.