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To finish off Echo, that the idea of having a specific line for OSC is to show its lore wise attitude of showing off. It is not a short term goal, but a long term goal, and was discussed over a period since I started with OSC Factions in December last year (Actively) that it was a long term goal, in reasoning of the Faction itself.
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Alright, you make a valid point about the Luxury Liner; it is not built solely for OSC. However, I would still very much consider it as OSC's signature ship. Assuming the wiki pages are up to date (and I think they are in this case) only OSC and Planetform are the corporations with access to Luxury Liners. The only other ID with open access to Liners is the Researcher ID, and there can't be too many of those around, right? Suffice to say, DSE would make Luxury Liners to-order for OSC and the very few other parties who want to buy one. Ageira's own Luxury Liner, for example, was originally purchased from OSC if I remember correctly.
However, as you have said, OSC don't even manufacture their own Liners. Therefore, isn't it a bit unreasonable for you to develop your own fighter line? In terms of RP, wouldn't the existing Civilian line be sufficient? Luxury Liners themselves are already very opulent craft, and OSC would have all their security ships upgraded with all the latest components that money can buy. This is in contrast to, for example, the Xenos, whose Eagles are likely to be older and constantly have to be repaired with whatever is at hand.
Also, in case it wasn't clear, the reason I was incredulous about the idea of an OSC Gunboat is that no corporation can even use a Gunboat, in terms of ID. There is a possibility of this changing in 4.86, and still then I maintain the same argument as for the fighter line - that you would buy the best from other sources, rather than devoting resources to an area which is not OSC's specialty.
