Rorry's Renegades |RR

[Diomedes]

Seby used to use Sean Bean aswell, guess we all have look alikes in the universe of Sirius no?;)And thanks for the compliments.

As for the Scorpion-Hybrid thing. I say if any other faction wants to put in the work the same as I have, then I see no reason for them to get one as-well. The difference is, I actually stuck with it and put in the hours and hours of effort both ingame and here on the forums, working with countless different players and doing a ton of person research.

If any other faction wants to do that kind of work for one single ship, they deserve it and more power to em I say.

It's a fair point for the Scorpion. To clarify my thoughts here (and I haven't read all the related RP), I'm not against you getting it, I just think it is unlikely to actually happen, unfortunately.

Reverse engineering is really not near as difficult as Disco makes it out to be if a faction/company/etc has skilled people to do it. Unless the tech is simply so far beyond a group's fundamental understanding that they cannot grasp the concept anyway. Basically, there is a reason all tech in RL is patented (given protecting under the law for 20 years in exchange for full disclosure of the tech) instead of kept as trade secret (secret until someone figures it out). Electrical, mechanical and software Widgets are pretty easy to figure out, while certain other things are almost impossible (e.g. the recipe for Coke).

In game, this has to balance somewhere. Players are generally restricted because even if you can reverse engineer enemy tech pretty easily, it is usually to learn its weaknesses rather than reproduce it. People tend to like their own stuff. This is where I think the SRPmited quantity concept is good and actually makes a lot of sense; a group might reproduce one vessel for undercover/vanity/etc.

So, to not derail the thread and with little knowledge of the lore of the Scorpion itself, I actually like the idea of a unique flagship.

As for the cruisers, if a group has the income to save enough to commission a cruiser and that income is steady, they will probably have enough to just pay shipyards to do the maintenance. Cash flow wise, the maintenance costs would be far easier to maintain than the huge cost to build the ship.

Bottom line, I'm not against your requests and like the aspect of uniqueness they would add. But the point stands that if established lore is the Order can't figure out how to work a Scorpion, no one else in Sirius is likely to either. On top of this hurdle, there is the stance of the server in general to such requests, generally a very cautious one, which is there to stop a tech free-for-all. One cruiser might be a better place to start than two, if that RP develops.

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