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With the Hercules Starlifter on the roadmap for 4.0, are all the variants being worked on simultaneously or just one variant?
John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

We're just going to work on the base one, the C2, I think, is the base one. I've got so many ship names in my head at the moment. We're doing the base one first and then we will do the other two after that. They may not be straight after it. They may be straight after it. It depends how the base one goes. And if for some reason that ship moves around in the schedule, it's probably because we're going to just lump them all together and deliver them all as one chunk rather than individually.

Will Weissbaum · Lead Writer

That really makes sense, to do it that way, kind of sequentially: get your core ship done, because you learn so much during that process that if you're doing all at the same time, you would just be redoing work multiple times.

John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

Yeah, the A2 and the M2 have so much in common with the base one. You can't really start them before you've done the base one. When I say moving around or delivering more at once, I mean more that we would do all three, or do the C2 first, then the other two, and then hold them until one patch and give them all in one go, rather than the C2 in one patch, the M2 in another patch, the A2 in another patch.

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