why ? does have more cargo than t-7? Also ASP is more similar to a cobra than a T ship
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why ? does have more cargo than t-7? Also ASP is more similar to a cobra than a T ship
I need more Lakons in my life.
Oh great now their talking about PC please close this thread
Not customers, but legacy programs (of thus questionable quality) who would could be confused when checking the Windows version if they parse the string and don't use the official version number constant.
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More thinking 'what's slightly bigger than a T7 and made by Lakon'?
Just a guess.
In gaming history the asp was first, as it was in the original Elite. I don't know the lore around when ships entered service.
Well, you've gotta admit, if they'd began the series with Ep I, they'd never have gotten the rest of the series off the ground.
As for the OP's question, it's a tradition in Elite games that there be some "missing numbers". In the original Elite, there was a Cobra I and Cobra III, but no Cobra II. The original Elite game manual explained that the Cobra II had so many issues and problems in design that it never made it past the prototype stage. I think one of the semi-canonical novels had the characters steal the Cobra II prototype from a museum.
I assume that a similar "failed prototype" logic applied to the Lakon transporter series. They tried to make a Type 8, but it had such serious design flaws that the T8 project was cancelled. But they'd already started work on the T9 as well and accepting preorders for it, so they couldn't simply renumber the T9.
It must have been pretty bad then, considering they released the Type 7.
Probably a design that wasn't adopted, kind of like how's there's a F-16 and F/A18, but no F-17.
Someone instant-3d-printed the Type 8 prototype from one Lakon design studio to the other.
As is required by galactic 3d-printing regulations, the original was then smashed up into tiny little pieces, run through a grinder, stomped on by peasants, and fed to geese. For obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, at the remote end, somebody forgot to switch the receiving device from "Fax" to "Instant Ship", and all that arrived was a black and white picture of the Type 8 on thermal paper... which rolled across the floor into a sunny spot, and faded within an hour.
And that was that.
As is required by galactic 3d-printing regulations, the original was then smashed up into tiny little pieces, run through a grinder, stomped on by peasants, and fed to geese. For obvious reasons.
Unfortunately, at the remote end, somebody forgot to switch the receiving device from "Fax" to "Instant Ship", and all that arrived was a black and white picture of the Type 8 on thermal paper... which rolled across the floor into a sunny spot, and faded within an hour.
And that was that.
They didn't 800 series was a mobile card.