Nice try! If it would be _that_ simple, I would fit my Corvette with a 7A FSD and immediately sell my other ships.
Iguana - Lakon's Specialized Exploration Vessel
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Nice try! If it would be _that_ simple, I would fit my Corvette with a 7A FSD and immediately sell my other ships.
Just give me an anaconda that trades the hard point space for a larger fsd. Dream come true
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What a surprise! Our anonymous informant just handed us a new top secret ship concept
This one's called the Quetzalcoatl and is built by Falcon DeLacy (nevermind the logo on the shipyard!!). A quick glance at the docs tells us we're looking at a large exploration vessel, designed for survival and extremely long range missions. Based around an early Anaconda design, it shares with it the FSD size. But the Quetzalcoatl's wings fold in a supercool fashion for landing and slipping through the mailslot, which a definitive plus.
The hull is made lighter (thus more fragile), which restricts the size of internals. Except for the FSD, core internals are dowsized to match both the hull strength and the undersized power plant. Just like on the Iguana, the power distributor is a modified version, dropping any Weapon Charge capacity for slightly better Engine and Systems ones. The two small hardpoints can thus only fit mining lasers, which will draw their power from the Systems charge.
Compared to the Conda, most internals have been shrinked or divided in two, while others had to be removed. The size 7 slot is restricted to the fuel scoop, for technical reasons (weight, mostly). DeLacy maintained the size 5 slot at the expanse of a few more size 3; for fighter bays rather than shields, which probably couldn't be powered properly. Rest is size 3s and size 2s for various exploration equipment. The ship comes with both high-end scanners on purchase.
Utility mounts are numerous, again for various travel and exploration utilities.
If the stock jump range isn't partiularly impressive, it skyrockets with a lighter and more efficient loadout, almost matching that of an engineered exploration Anaconda. The autonomy is decent and can easily be extended with an extra tank that wouldn't cost too much on internals. Once engineered, the Quetzalcoatl really outmatches the Anaconda while still offering a comfortable environment for deep space endeavours.
I think those wings will make landings impossible. I also have to say that it seems to be a cheap exploraconda with a special PD, not an ultra-long mission vessel.
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaah, you see, the ship in the picture is an EVE Online ship, it's a sort of, like, a placeholder, and the wingfold bit is sort of, like, a joke, which is perceivable by the subtle change of tone, so............................ not really an issue here
What makes an Anaconda *not* an ultra-long mission vessel? Hell, my shieldless ASP *is* an ultra-long mission vessel, proven by fact. You can take the Conda if you want, I'll take more range, less useless stuff, less heat, better handling and cheaper purchase
Muaha
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The Anaconda is an ultra-long mission vessel, but so does literally any ship in the game. What makes this ship especial at that job?