Lets talk about Celestra

[TheShooter36]

Yes, that CR Freighter nobody uses at all. TLDR It is so underpowered to the point it could simply not exist and its a total joke with an identity crisis.

Now, why?

As some of you might know, Celestra was not a freighter all the time. It was CR's equalivent of Pelican before, with absolutely no use, just like now. Its conversion was a low effort one in epic proportions of failure. Resize it, copy dromedary stats straight, while not even reducing its price so it costs three times more compared to other freighters, while not even touching it's pre-conversion weapon arcs. By its guncount and arcs, its trying to be a worse Camara. By its stats, its a worse dromedary, there is no reason at all for CR to use it's own freighter while it gets %100 on Camara and %90 on Dromedary at the moment.

My solution:

While Dromedary is pure cargo and Camara is a viable "battlefreighter" due to its size, I propose turning Celestra into a CSF/Grizzly style, heavy combat freighter/APC. Make it one of the heaviest, if not THE heaviest freighter available. It is already big enough for that (We dont count Ragnar here). An alternative approach could be an up-gunned Ragnar-Lite with slight upscale too. Just give CR a reason to choose their own freighter, rather than others available. Make it a viable alternative. CR (and NO) being a Tau faction, a combat-ready, sturdy freighter would fit the lineup as a third freighter alternative, alongside civ and borderworlds lines.

All that assumes devs somehow dont get the idea of removing civ and borderworlds techcells from the faction to force that undergunned pile of scrap of course.

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