She's a beauty! (New ship revealed--Mandalay)

I've been planning on heading back to Colonia for some time. My second commander is moving out there, and my primary is just moving out into the black. All I needed was one of those 'tuit thingies (the round kind). I finally got one a few hours ago, and then this news dropped.

I think I lost my 'tiut.....
 
When credits are as ubiquitous as they are under the current matter (unless you do piracy and have your children go hungry every time you come across an empty or uninteresting hold), I'm not sure "zero rebuy" even qualifies much, especially not for most medium-sized ships where it's really not that expensive to rebuy to begin with.

... exploration is also not really something that you can start calling a feature where "pay to win" particularly applies. Once you go off the beaten track, it doesn't matter whether you have 30, 50 or 100 ly of jump range, you're going to come across unexplored systems just as much. I suppose it could matter a little bit for the fringes or high up/down on the galactic plane where stars are sparse (distance of course subject to region and proximity to galactic core). But I don't think most people routinely go for those areas, only the few dedicated to that specific task, while others might occasionally venture out further from the denser regions of the plane for interesting finds.
 
A long, long time ago, I think I wished for an Osprey in ED... Any other oldies can confirm I'm not mad to think this is a bit of that? Maybe with a dash of Kestrel?

Geez, can't even find pictures of the things on the internet any more... showing my age with this old manual.

osprey manual.jpg


No my camera isn't the problem, this is actually better clarity than you get with the unaided eye 😹
 
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