Khartu-Al (Xi'an Scout) - Single Seat Ship

[Black Sunder]

As confirmed in today's 10 For the Developers the Xi'an Scout will be a single seater craft. :( I was looking forward to putting a keg in the 2nd seat with a hose running down to me.

What do you all think, those that have it?

 

[Montoya]

I prefer it to be single seat.

Small, nimble, fast!

 

[Fenrig]

Single seat was my preference.

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

It's good that I have a ship that reflects my lifestyle...

 

[AntiSqueaker]

I wonder why the change. Seems like the old(ish) concept art had plenty of room for a second seat. Would have been nice to have an RIO seat to run radar or comms, but I suppose it's not really a huge loss.

 

[Blind Owl]

@CrudeSasquatch, I cannot wait to crash your Xi'an scout into a sun. Oh boy oh boy!!

 

[mromutt]

I always thought it was supposed to be a single seat. And sunder just put the beer in a spare fuel tank ;) worse case it will be used as an after burner.

 

[Unshaven]

Single seat works for me.

Maybe they will compensate by buffing up the modularity and systems to make up for the missing seat.

Did you see anything about the cockpit glass shields?

I'm hoping it kept those cool solid shields shown in some of the concepts.

 

[Gearen]

I'm cool with that... I mean, I'm not, I wanted a 2 crew Kartu... but when i got into the hangar and saw it...

 

[Hadron Xon]

Melted mine , looks nothing like the original concept.

 

[ErnoCor]

It looks shiny
I want it

 

[thanatos73]

You could just fill the whole bubble with beer.......

 

[Ezz]

http://imgur.com/a/gBOUO

 

[ErnoCor]

http://imgur.com/a/gBOUO

 

[Wolf Lord Caldersson]

Everyone talks about the looks. No what makes this ship is the insectoid chittering it makes when you get in. They really did a nice combo there. Bravo on the sound guys.

 

[ErnoCor]

Everyone talks about the looks. No what makes this ship is the insectoid chittering it makes when you get in. They really did a nice combo there. Bravo on the sound guys.

WHAT? NOW I HAVE TO HEAR IT

 

[Blind Owl]

WHAT? NOW I HAVE TO HEAR IT

Watch STLyoungblood's video.

 

[mromutt]

You could just fill the whole bubble with beer.......

Top notch thinking, promoted to keg first class!

 

[Unshaven]

http://imgur.com/a/gBOUO

Thank you for posting this Ezz.

Two S3 M5A's! So they did buff it a bit. I thought it was originally going to have S1's or 2's or something like that. Do those look like they are on gimbals? Seems so. I wonder if that means you can go to dual fixed S4's? That would pop.

I'd like to see it have long range though and at least something for cargo, even if it's small. Or a couple of drop tanks/cargo pods. Something so you can go the distance and bring back something you can sell. This would be perfect for infiltrating Vanduul, Xian or Banu space.

 

[ErnoCor]

Watch STLyoungblood's video.

Way too cool
I want it