John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director, Foundry 42

Yeah, they are intentionally small because it's not designed to fight. Not every ship is a dogfighter in the game, as much as everyone wants their ship to be the best dogfighter. This is, compared to the other ships in its size class, so like the Freelancer, Constellation, one of the fastest ones amongst them. So it relies on its speed and agility, not being able to shoot its way out of the situation like the Constellation can with its size five mounts and a million missiles on it.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

One of the things that the Constellation gets referred to as is space superiority, since it's meant to be a step above others in that class.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director, Foundry 42

The Freelancer is a good comparison. It has 66 SCU, so it's got less cargo. It's got better guns, got better armor. The Freelancer MAX has got more cargo than this, same guns. So if you want to just do cargo running, day in, day out, the Freelancer MAX is good. If you want to mix it up, that's good.