Drake Cutter from Pipeline Discord

[Freak0]

Please see attached. Looks like a starter to me!

As a side note, notice the 'variant' has a module on top of the ship? It almost looks like a vehicle rack for more modularity. Given the news about the Galaxy ... I wonder if module issues have been fixed or have a solution that is being worked on?

 

[Raven_King]

That’s nice, and it matches the mystery ship seen from below in the IAE promo video!
https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2952-mystery-ship.20016/

 

[Dirtbag_Leader]

Damn and I thought the Terrapin was ugly. . .

 

[Sintha]

Looks great ang huge for a starter. Love that they keep the design aesthetic.

 

[Raven_King]

Damn and I thought the Terrapin was ugly. . .

It’s cute! Sort of like one of these mudskippers…

 

[GPcustoms]

Are we sure its not a new manufacturer that built it from Legos?

 

[Freak0]

They are saying it is the real deal. Top one is cargo. Bottom one is exploration.

 

[Sky Captain]

Cool! Not too much intrigued by the (lack of) 'sex' appeal of this ship, but glad to see Drake getting something more for its starting lining up finally.

 

[Shadow Reaper]

10% faster than a 325A? That is really, really fast for a starter ship. So ugly it has an appeal. Need to know more.

 

[Vavrik]

When I first saw it, I thought about a baby Corsair that isn't going to survive it's tail and wings being cut off.

 

[RoosterRage]

10% faster than a 325A? That is really, really fast for a starter ship. So ugly it has an appeal. Need to know more.

I wonder if the high speed is due to the new scm mode being introduced as they said max speed of ships would be around 300.

 

[Ltmifune]

It's cute and I want one. I don't care what it does.

 

[Brictoria]

Looking at the features, it's nice to see that they are sticking to the Drake tradition of not including a bathroom on the ship :)

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Looks great ang huge for a starter. Love that they keep the design aesthetic.

I'm not sure that scale is right, only 2 SCU for a ship that size...?

 

[Brictoria]

I'm not sure that scale is right, only 2 SCU for a ship that size...?

2 SCU doesn't seem to far off (maybe 3 or 4 in the non-expedition version replacing the suit locker and food machine?) - it doesn't appear to be much larger than a 100i or Aurora - I'd guess that it's around 12-15m long, 4-5 high, and maybe 10m wide. - Looks like cockpit, then behind it - possibly reaching all the way to the rear side doors - is space for "living" quarters and components, with a small cargo area inside the side rear doors.

It also looks like it was the "standard" rather than the expedition version shown landing in the earlier images (tail fins are different on the 2 known versions, based on above picture).

I'm curious as to the pricing on this\these ships...
Factors in favor of "cheap" prices:

• It's small
• It's Drake
• It isn't a fighter\combat ship
• It has minimal cargo capaity\functionality (compared to Cutlass Black)

Factors in favor of higher price:

• Food machine
• Variants\module availablitiy
• Potentially popular\high sales expected
• It has minimal cargo capaity\functionality (compared to Cutlass Black) - See: Cutlass Steel

 

[Shadow Reaper]

The Drake way

 

[Vavrik]

That looks fancy. This is Drake. What's wrong with a 5 gallon bucket?

 

[Brictoria]

That looks fancy. This is Drake. What's wrong with a 5 gallon bucket?

Even that's fancier than I would have expected - There's side doors at the rear of the Cutty and Cutlass's, so I think the plan is that you just hang out over the side there, which could be "interesting" on long-haul flights (Pyro) away from anything with an atmosphere... No stockpiling burrito's for those flights :)

 

[Blind Owl]

Anyone else look at this and see the starting ship from Privateer?

 

[Doyzer]

Anyone else look at this and see the starting ship from Privateer?

Wow, you are correct.