[Video] Mercury Star Runner sale

Thalstan

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Thalstan
Info from the ship pledge page


Focus: Medium Cargo/Medium Data

Description: The Mercury checks all the boxes expected of a dependable courier vessel, and then some. If you need it there fast and unscathed, you can’t do better than the Mercury. Built with the same engineering and design principals that has made Crusader the go-to manufacturer for galactic transport on any scale, the star runner chassis sets new standards for data and cargo conveyance.


Length 40m
Beam 38m
Height 11.6m
215 m/s SCM speed
1,050 m/s afterburner
min crew 2
max crew 3
Cargo 96 SCU

Radar M
Computers 5xM
Power Plant - 2xM
Cooler - 2xM
Shield Generator - 2xM
Light Armor

Fuel Intake - 2xM
Fuel Tank - 2xM
Quantum Drive - M
Jump Module - M
Quantum Fuel Tank - 2xM
Weapon - 2xS3 (S2 laser repeaters installed)
Turret - 2 mounts, each with 2xS2 laser repeaters installed
Missiles - 2 racks, each with 2 S1 missiles

4 VTOL, 4 Retro, 3 Main thrusters
8 Gimbaled and 4 fixed Mavs

Summary: A slightly bigger than freelancer sized ship (mostly wider) that can hold as much cargo as a Connie Andromeda, plus can also run data as well. Good for the duo and small group, plus maybe some solo work. Not super fast, but decent for it's size.
 
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Bruttle

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Aug 20, 2016
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I upgraded my Hurricane to a Star Runner. This hits the spot for me. Prior to this ship, there really wasn't anything there. You had the Freelancer and Cutlass, but they were too small. You had the Connie, but that never really felt right. Some of the bigger ships might have fit the role, but they were too big and specialized.

Nothing seemed to be specifically designed to fill the role of the "Firefly" or "Millennium Falcon". Nothing really fit in the category of fast, not to big, not too small, low crew requirement, swiss army knife of the spaceship selection. This one hits the sweet spot and has character to boot. I think it has a ton more character than it's main counterpart, the Connie. It looks like that's exactly what they intended it to be as well. Even in the "Ship Shape" episode they were making comparisons to the millennium falcon.
 

Blind Owl

Hallucinogenic Owl
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Nov 27, 2015
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I know the feeling, I was thinking that also. I mean, can only fly one at a time right?
Exactly. I just posted a thread to that effect. I was reset last fall after I refunded my fleet, but I got all hot and bothered to rebuild, and have done so very well. But I find I don't want it. Not at all. I just want to play the game, to earn, explore, adventure.

So I'm trying to divest. All of it. Well, most of it.
 

Zookajoe

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Nov 6, 2016
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Exactly. I just posted a thread to that effect. I was reset last fall after I refunded my fleet, but I got all hot and bothered to rebuild, and have done so very well. But I find I don't want it. Not at all. I just want to play the game, to earn, explore, adventure.

So I'm trying to divest. All of it. Well, most of it.
Heh, I am DOWN TO just the Entrepreneur Pack and the UEE Explorer 2948 Pack, which I have CCU'd a few vehicles to ships in each. These are the two packages I am going to be running so I can have one extra crewman/heir.

I figure the other 9 ships I won't be using, will be available to the rest of the Org to use, so folks can have a bit of variety.

Though, I am still trying to hold to a Exploration/Mining niche.
 
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Blind Owl

Hallucinogenic Owl
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Heh, I am DOWN TO just the Entrepreneur Pack and the UEE Explorer 2948 Pack, which I have CCU'd a few vehicles to ships in each. These are the two packages I am going to be running so I can have one extra crewman/heir.

I figure the other 9 ships I won't be using, will be available to the rest of the Org to use, so folks can have a bit of variety.

Though, I am still trying to hold to a Exploration/Mining niche.
And I'm down to the UEE Explored 2948, plus 4 additional ships. Honestly, 3 ships is the number. That's it. That's what I want. The Polaris because I spent so long earning her; the Raven, because she can't be traded or melted; and a Mercury, because that be my everyday ship, my home.
 
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