Ci¬G always release a ship when the funds start to look poor on the quarterly spreadsheet...the Mercury Star runner will boost the sales figures a bit...except for the fact that most folk who would be likely to want one already paid for it back in February. Like most things SC, the Mercury release is simply reduced to relieving the technical debt a fraction
Like most backers who haven't spend any new cash whatsoever with Ci¬G for quite some considerable time... regardless what's on offer, if I really felt the need for another utterly purposeless spaceship, I'd just melt something else in my hangar just as equally purposeless to get it.