Can you tell us anything more about the Archimedes?
TL;DRCalling the Archimedes a racer doesn't mean it can't fight; its centerline gun is being replaced with a boost-recharging device and its wing guns are going from two to four, with art and a store offering coming.
So to recap this story, two of our producers on ATV this week referred to the Archimedes as a racer. I would stress that just because we call a ship something in casual conversation does not mean that that's the only thing it does. They called the Archimedes a racer because, as it has been described ever since the start, it's the faster snub fighter. Actually, I'm sure they called it the racer because they were just coming off of Gurmukh working on a beautiful mood piece of racing. That does not mean it's not an interceptor. That doesn't mean it doesn't have guns. That doesn't mean it can't mix it up with other ships. So that clarification out of the way, there is a little bit more information on the Archimedes on the forums from Matt Sherman, who was kind enough to stop in to talk about the current armament and what some of the cool features are. It is true we are removing the centerline gun, the big center Gatling cannon is being taken off, and that's being replaced with a new device that is like a fuel supercharger. It allows you to recharge your boost, which the normal Merlin cannot do. And the two size one wing mount guns are being replaced with four size one wing mount guns. It's going to be a neat little ship. As I mentioned, Gurmukh is working on the art for it right now. He's doing two pieces that we're going to show off in action. One is indeed a racing picture and the other is a luxury picture. And once we have all our ducks in a row, we will offer that in the store. We'll have a post, sort of a Q&A, all that cool stuff. It's important to remember that the modular system, the component system, allows you to configure these ships in ways well beyond what they're initially spec'd out for. We're giving you one configuration when we sell you this ship, but you're going to have options to make it... And I would say just in the lore of the Star Citizen universe, no one is building a ship specifically for racing right now. The M50 was designed as a bomber interceptor, the Mustang variant that races, the Omega, and the other one. They are variants of an existing ship that have been souped up to race. It's much like after World War II, you would have people who would buy P-51s and modify them as racing aircraft. That does not mean the P-51 is not a fighter. It's a pretty good fighter. And I say that as a Thunderbolt fan.