those are the only kind of replies i give...
It's been bugging me for a while, but what's the arm on the Pioneer for?
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You're all wrong: it's obviously used as a giant can opener for cracking into the Beerfarer.
Because what the fuck is the use of having an outpost without having copious amounts of beer?
Because what the fuck is the use of having an outpost without having copious amounts of beer?
What you say, while true, all fits under Printimus' theory...
.. and I quote "stuff, with things" is obviously implying that opening BeerFarers is its function solely because an outpost without beer would be not only criminal but in addition a tragedy !
While I really like this idea...
This is more like how I see it too. It could function as a primary loading dock, with the more "courier entrance" being on the landing pad. The missing component in all this is, how exactly would we move heavy cargo out of a Starfarer or Caterpillar? I suppose we could slide it out of the Starfarer, but the Caterpillar with legs extended... there's a bit of a drop, you know? I'm not sure that's going to work so well on heavy gravity planets even with a Starfarer. Think we need a forklift?
The arm has to be deployed before opening up and operating the Pioneer and stowed again before take off. The extra time this takes is designed to make the Pioneer especially helpless to attack when on the ground. It's called BALANCE.
That's the thing, in the latest Jump Point, af few of the alpha designs actually show that the arm was used to allow the hull to be extended along it, giving it a larger interior construction space for the modules. At the moment though, it just looks like a rather dingy :thumbsup:
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