The "Black Rhino"

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Just for fun 'cause I was taking a break and bored. I had played the camara a few times and loved how it handled and the torpedo-like shape. I always have wished they had the equivalent of a "P-38" in Freelancer and was thinking, how could you mass produce a cheap gunship using already existing production? Here it is.

My idea is to keep the camara like agility somewhat--make it more agile than the spatial and perhaps certainly a hair better than your average bomber. The Rhino acts as the command center/pilot/gunner seat and the camaras house the engines and weapons. Cargo and even armor would be sacrificed for agility so maybe leave the Rhino cargo hold intact and lose all the camara's. Reduce the hull to a little less than a spatial and a big powerplant isn't needed as all it will have for guns is 12 type 5 turrets (throw a CM/CD/mine onto the Rhino).

So you have a nimble, lightly armored gunship made by DSE and Liberty shipyards. Fun to fly is the goal. Here are the pics (I just like the look--so I thought I'd post it;)) If it's tooo much for it's niche, the hull could be cut in half and the price dropped while retaining the agility.

Here's he stats comparison (taken from combined) to a Spatial which is a close match and throwing away cargo space to keep the camara maneuverability which makes up for less potential firepower than the spatial (no class 10 guns, missiles, mines or a torp for example):

HULL(BLACK RHINO/SPATIAL)
31,000/29,600
CARGO
225(-1,260)/180
POWER
27,400/39,130
RECHARGE
2,735/2,350
BATS-BOTS
205/270
PRICE
3,783,770/4,298,380

Black Rhino has 12x class 5 turrets + CD & 2x CM.
Spatial has 4x class 10 guns, 2x class 9 and 3x class 5 turrets plus 2x M and CDT & CM.

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