While I like the t7 jumbo idea: classic fdev What I truly long for from the Panther Clip is a ship with either a) 30cms clearance on all sides on the toast-rack, same on a large pad, or b) a new docking umbilical or gantry to enable max fantasticness. Most importantly however, is the handling. Please not a t-type tugboat. Be a Panther clipper with a t-10's worth of saturn5 boosters on it's backside, and make it boost to at least 500m/s, drift like a loon, and have 3 huge hardpoints clustered together with good convergence. I dont care if it turns like a towerblock. Id prefer it that way.
I want to take it bounty hunting & CZ smashing, I want to be able to effectively ram with it, preferably popping multiple tiddlies at once with one careering slew through a bunfight.
Right now we have a kind of progression for ships with relatively garbage pitch compared to their peers. Vip4, Mamba, Cutter. You can gradually learn the style as you move up the ship size. I would love the Panther Clipper to be the apogee of this flying style. I would go so far as to say i'd happily donate a pound of flesh, and even a testicle, to Kumoburger if it would make that ship happen at this late stage.