Okay, I'll concede its been awhile since I saw a Tigershark. The image that pops into my head is decidedly non-Rheinlandish, so I'll pull back that point.
And I agree about the Corsairs saying "we don't have enough allies"- they do, there's just not enough people who play as said allies. We've got... one ally, the Order, that has lots of players. The Outcasts have the Rogues, the Lane Hackers, the Mollies, and the Red Hessians, all of which with active players. Eh... maybe people aren't fond of civilian ships?
Still, what are the Corsairs supposed to use for a LF? The Decurion is minorly bugged and more or less useless, the Arwing is completely bugged and hideously unfair, the Griffin is (as I've heard it) absolute junk, and that leaves... the Tigershark, sold on a friendly base (you said yourself its actually supposed to be there), which is the Arwing in all of its stats, but with a different paintjob and no serious bugs. Just pretend its an Arwing, if you have to. The stats are about 100 hull off, and they even signed an arms deal with a few IMG people to buy them...
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