I have a cutter and a t9. the t9 is just welded to the fleet carrier to transfer fuel. I do my fightin in the cutter.
My I-Cutter Dammit Turn Already is my current go-to heavy lift platform. She is strong, stable and unstoppable in the role.Just thinking that the Type-9 and cutter overlap somewhat as being joint kings of cargo capacity, within a handful of tonnes capacity of each other, and both ships have woefully weak spots, but their weaknesses are different from each other. For example, the cutter is fast, like silly fast given its turning rates, but it has the turning circle of a coriolis starport, but is much better in supercruise than a Type-9. However the Type-9 for all its lethargy, is actually a pretty faithful stead and goes (slowly, very very slowly) where you point it. Similarly the cutter has a canopy / windscreen that is akin to a letter box, whereas the Type-9 has the whole Lakon greenhouse canopy offering much better visibility than the cutter. But the cutters cockpit is more opulently appointed whereas the Type-9 is very much a girders and deck plates industrial affair. And so on and so forth, so I was wondering did anyone prefer the Lakon offering over the Gutamaya offering?
Great story, and good analogy, using a road analogy I'd compare the T9 to a Chevy Blazer k5 and the cutter to an Escalade. Both will tow serious trailers, but one feels like a truck and the other feels like a limo, and there are significant differences in how both those vehicles go about their business.My I-Cutter Dammit Turn Already is my current go-to heavy lift platform. She is strong, stable and unstoppable in the role.
The thing is, she doesn't look like she should. She's too sleek, too pretty. She looks like a kitchen appliance, or one of those not-talked-about toys women keep in their night-tables.
Any bike riders remember when THIS damn thing came out?
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It's the same idea.
Now - for the record, the Pacific Coast is a GREAT touring bike; she's comfy and easy to drive. Amazing gas mileage and when you twist that grip hang on - there's some serious horses under that moulded plastic. But she looks like a freaking blender.
I much preferred my old 'Wing:
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Now THAT'S a bike!
(Made all the more special because I built her practically from the frame up.)
The Pacific Coast has a few real advantages over the classic 'Wing: beautiful balance, superb wind envelope. You CAN (I know because I've done it) flick a Bic over her fuel tank at 100Kph and the flame will be absolutely calm. Great fuel efficiency. Pretty impressive torque - I was surprised how similar she was to the Goldwing in performance.
You just don't feel like you're riding a bike, which is the point. I don't WANT a 2-wheeled limo, I want a ROAD CRUISER.
And that is why for all her advantages, Dammit Turn Already will NEVER be my favoured heavy-hauler. She's a prissy prima-donna - looks great, does the job superbly. But she's all about herself.
My T-9 Hippoposthumous is my truck - my Western Star. She's a thousand tons of grunt; a slow-moving, solid and patient partner hauling goods deep into the Black.
She LOOKS like a truck and turns like an oil tanker.
She is THIS:
GOD I love my space-truck. And I ain't givin' her up for NOBODY.
That's quite a leap in logic.Only a moron would use the Type-9.
Only a moron would use the Type-9. Frontier's idea of a joke. Slow, sluggish and mass locked by a Python. It should have double the shield at minimum and quadrupled armour. It's only fair, seeing as it firepower also sucks.
Maybe they have only flown the old T9 back before it got the extra cargo space and much better performance.That's quite a leap in logic.