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So the Spec sheet has almost no information for the Xi'an scout. Can you give us some of the basics such as weapons loadout, max speed, size of the components like shield(s), generator, etc/ it is billed as a scout/explorer. What jump point size can it go through, and how is that implemented in the ship? The pictures only show the cockpit and not any interior space. What are we looking at, if anything, for the interior space?asked by Willie_Pete

TL;DRKirk Tome says the ship is in early white-box phase and will have two size-three lasers, possibly more size-two lasers, one medium shield, one small jump drive, any jump point size, and a 270 m/s top speed, with no interior planned.

Ok so quite a few questions about the ship and we do have some of the specs determined these are going into what we call the white box phase. It's the very first phase of the ship implementation where we take the raw geometry of the ship and then to do things like determine where the thrusters go how that's going to actually make the ship handle in space because of our new internal and physicalized ship components determining the size of those and where they can actually go on the ship as well.So to answer some of the questions, the ship is going to have two size three lasers for sure. Looking into putting another set of size 2 lasers on the top of the ship to give it some extra armament it's going to be one medium shield it's a rather large ship when it is open and flying so we wanted to give it some additional protection from forward facing shots. It's going to have two possible four small power plants and much like the Herald is going to have it's going to have one small jump drive. Because it is smaller than I believe the Endeavour (possibly means Herald?) it is going to be able to utilise any sized jump point.It won't have any trouble using any of the jump points in the PU. Its top speed is going to be 270 metres a second this is opposed to the Hornets 200 metres a second so it's going to be a very fast manoeuvrable ship there is no interior space plan. So much like the Hornet it's going to be a fighter space craft. So there is no internal space that is planned for the ship itself. I hope that answers the questions.

10 for the Designers›Episode 06·
Published on this date.12 Oct 2015