Anybody knows what this post in front of the Anaconda is for? To me it looks like what you would tie a rope to secure a ship to the pier 
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Any idea what this is for on the Anaconda?
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It looked like a camera array on my Anaconda. I mean, that prow does make it a bit difficult to see what is in front and below you.
I thought that's what the forward observation deck under the nose is for?
It's the hood ornament obviously ;-)
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It is a canopy scratching prevention pin.
If it gets broken of in the toaster rack, your bow is too high and you have sufficient time to correct before scratching your canopy.
If it gets broken of in the toaster rack, your bow is too high and you have sufficient time to correct before scratching your canopy.
Rhino-conda?
Nah, it is the washing line.
It's where I hang my coat while I blast the hell out of its powerplant.
It actually used to be a massive horn. Interstellar cowboys go out in their Cobras, Vipers, etc., and hunt down wild Anacondas. Once they find one they chase it until it is exhausted, and then catch it by lassoing this horn with their Interdiction tethers. They then haul it back to their orbital corrals, trim this horn back (it is dangerous, as it is long and sharp), and then set to work taming the Anaconda. Once it is tame and trained they can then be sold onto the ship builders (you didn't think they made the Anaconda, did you?), and then take a break before starting out again. A really good cowboy can catch, tame and train 4 Anacondas an Earth year. As tame Anacondas don't breed (nobody has yet found why, or can even work out HOW they breed) this is the only way to get Anacondas.
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That is almost certainly the correct explanation - but I thought the reason why the domestic ones couldn't breed was that they had to be gelded in order to make room for the command deck.
Why else would the call it the cockpit?
That would explain the male Anacondas, but AFAIK every Anaconda is the same, so where are the female Anacondas, or do they even exist in a similar form to the males?
Maybe they reproduce asexually or maybe they can function in either role...
GCSE biology go!
Rumour has it that the answer involves the Orca, though there have also been reports of wild Anacondas molesting Majestic-class Interdictors.
