Buff the Imperial Clipper

[Poseidal]

That’s it. I’m sick of all this “VIP Transport” biowaste that’s going on in the galaxy right now. Imperial Clippers deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.

I should know what I’m talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine Imperial Clipper in Facece for 147,400 Imperial Crowncoins (that’s about Cr 100,000,000 in Bank of Zaonce money) and have been practising with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid palladium with my Clipper.

Imperial Slaves spend years working on a single Clipper and tune it up to a million times to produce the finest ships known to mankind.
Imperial Clippers are thrice as fast as Federal ships with thrice the firepower for that matter too. Anything a Dropship can dogfight, an Imperial Clipper can dogfight better. I’m pretty sure an Imperial Clipper could easily bisect an Anaconda in full military grade plating with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why the Federation never bothered conquering Achenar? That’s right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Barons and their Clippers of destruction. Even in the battle of Cemiess, Federal pilots targeted the men with the Clippers first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Imperial Clippers are simply the best ship that the galaxy has ever seen, and thus, require better stats. Here is the stat block I propose for Imperial Clippers:

Hardpoints: +1 Large extra central weapon hardpoint.
Movement: Pitch rate ->30, Roll Rate ->100, Acceleration (max, retro) ->32, 19; Class 6 Hyperdrive
Defence: Shields ->390
Can retract nacelles to land on Medium pads
Genuine Gutamaya seats (not those uncleaned Faulcon deLacy seats), lined with real Zelano Lomb-skin Leather

(Reposted)

 

[Kyln]

Are you mad? The clipper is probably one of the best ships in the game. It has bloody everything.

The second quickest ship in the game, and the quickest is the cobra = not a threat.

More cargo space than a type-7 despite the type-7 being a dedicated trader and the clipper only costs 5 mil more (although the clipper is much more expensive to upgrade)

Decent combat capabilities since it has 2 large and 2 medium hardpoints. Sure the hardpoint placement sucks on it, but with gimballed it doesn´t really matter.

incredible manoeuvrable in supercruise, which means it´s a dream to fly and easily evade interdictions.

if you ask me, they should nerf it. In my opinion it´s the best ship in the game relative to its price.


The clipper, makes the federal dropship look like an absolute joke.