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One of the questions that existed during the original concept was where all the turrets were, because a lot of those original concept images didn't have the turrets in place. I understand that this is where they're hidden, right?

TL;DRA manned turret hides in that hatch, and damage output isn't being changed now because defense is the ship's strength, though it will be adjusted if it underperforms and remote turrets may later be automated.

John CreweVehicle Director

Yep, so there's a manned turret in that hatch. So that's packing two size fours currently, same as the original concept brochure had. I know there's been a lot of debate about the sort of damage output of this ship and its place against other ships. And it's something we're looking at. We're not going to immediately make any changes because this is really the big bonus this ship has, its defensive capabilities. It's our first sort of capital class ship. It's our first ship with a lot of size 4 items, size 4 shields. So it can really take a pounding to offset some of the ships that may pack slightly more punch on paper. So we're not going to change anything at the moment. But if in the future it is underperforming, then like any ship, we will make changes to put it into the place it's supposed to be. There's a manned turret at the front there. You saw two of those remote missile turrets outside the bridge. So currently any of these remote turrets, they have to be manned purely because we don't have fully automated or point defense turrets in game and used at the moment. But in the future, these will become automated if you wish, or you can still retain manual control over them. So there's two remote ones there. Then there's a remote one at the top back, I believe.

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Published on this date.23 Aug 2019