Not being funny but I fail to see the issue with this. If your ships are anything to go by then I imagine our slaves enjoy a significantly higher quality of life than the vast majority of your "free" population.
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The Cobra Mk III is 200 years old?
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Not being funny but I fail to see the issue with this. If your ships are anything to go by then I imagine our slaves enjoy a significantly higher quality of life than the vast majority of your "free" population.
The basic outer hull design is 550 years old but all the internal systems have be updated continually, why change the shape of a ship just for the sake of change. After all if it was a good shape for a fighter back then why would it not still work today. However if you compared a ship fitted out with state of the art systems from way back when the ship was launched you would have thought that you were in an orbital shuttle. I can remember my Grandfather telling me that if your environmental system broke down and you had no heating all you had to do was buzz a police viper a few times until he opened up on you with his military lasers and after about ten seconds you would be nice and warm again (hence the term "Heating up" when an authority ship opens fire on you). Today a few seconds burst from the current weapons on an authority ship will strip off your shields and start to vapourise your hull plating. So althought they may look the same, the looks are only skin deep and when one of those Imperial lackeys (who most likely paid for his commanders pips), thinks oh look a 500 year old vipers I'll take him out, well let me say I would pay a ton of platinum to see the looks on their face when after they have drained their charge bank the lil' old viper is still sitting there, just a little bit pee'ed off.
Aye, I do agree. I know FFE is 3200 and that's now set in stone but I would like to see the Mk numbers a upped a bit. After all the artists have been hard at work creating the new look. It's also a way to acknowledge the great work they've put in and let them leave their mark on the ED universe as a specific variant (the Cobra Mk IV/V or whatever)
No need to worry that they don't look significantly different from previous variants, in the end were talking space-faring where aerodynamics aren't too relevant and can arguably be relatively static.
They are not plotholes, think of the Star Wars universe they do not even know HOW hyperspace works just that they push this dohickey thingy and the stars go all streaky and they get to where they want to unless they fly right through star or bounce too close to a supernova. Hell technology in the Star Wars universe has been stagnant for several thousand years.
As long as a technology works there is little incentive to improve it especially when it comes to ship designs. Why do you think there is a Cobra Mk1 and a Cobra Mk 3? The Mk 2 was a spectacular failure from what I remember reading about playing FFE. The only way you are going to get any push to further the ship designs is if there is a large scale conflict where current designs are ineffective, think about Star Trek and the ship and weapon designs that came about because of the Borg threat or in our own history look at aircraft technology between 1930 and 1950. In 20 years we went from mostly biplanes to Jets.
Look at space technology, we are still using the same technology to get into orbit as we were using 70 years ago (chemical reaction rockets).
As for weapons technology, well, the US Navy has PEW PEW now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHt44BuASk
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The a10 Warhog is 40 years old and is expected to last at least another 20 years. If something does something that well, what's the point in changing it?
If it ain't broke don't fix it...
the DESIGN is 200 years old
for reference, the US Naval Fleet built most of its battleships during WW2, those SAME battleships were still being called into service as late as korea, vietnam, gulf war, etc. because the hulls did their job. they outfitted the hulls with newer technology though, as they did with the Cobra.
remember, the shields on a cobra are not the cobra itself, no matter how old that ship is, as long as there is room, you cna put newer shields on it, so it will always be "up to date"
