GALNET - 24 NOV 3306 - Core Dynamics Bids to Purchase Lakon Spaceways

God, you guys get worked up so easily. All they’re trying to do is put a third spoiler on the T10. NBD.
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I'd rather they bought Faulcon De Lacey, reverse engineer the Aanconda to learn how to make big 3 ship, the cutter, turn. Or maybe they would be better grabbing Zorgan Peterson, slapping a pair of nacelles on the FDL and giving the empire a medium combat ship.
I doubt they could buy DeLacy, they're probably the single most successful ship manufacturer in Elite due to how many of their ships exist.
Lakon being the galaxy's workhorses? Blasphemy!
In fact, Faulcon DeLacy is so successful they'd already bought Zorgon about a century ago.

Lakon's financial problems being caused by the Chieftain trio, wildly popular and effective ships, is one of the least believable reasons I can think of.

If they had blamed the Asp Scout for existing, the Keelback and it's one trick SLF, the T-7 being .5m too tall or the T-10 for failing at AX combat harder than it's chonky armour rating, I might have believed it.

Maybe even just blaming the Crusader, the worst of them, but all three? Nah, nope, git ata ere.
 
All you need to do to fix the T10 would be to build it from whatever unobtainium FDeL build the conda out of.

But seriously - I suspect this is ship price rebalancing. Most ships get pricier, AspS gets cheaper (I'm hoping for a rework, but easier just to recost), AspX gets renamed "Nomad", maybe even new ship (Imp Medium?) - but i doubt it.
 
Yeah, voicing Chieftain as some kind of a problem - that's weird. This vessel is very popular.
The only thing I can think of is if they didn't make enough so there's a long waiting list and people won't buy any of the others because they want a chief.

Otherwise... 🤷‍♀️
 
So, will the bid be accepted?

How will it be decided, maybe a combat CG with opposing goals for either company?
 
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