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[Challenge 3][Cat B][O-F09] Testing the Hornet

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Location: F09 - Arium Minor

Tags: Spaceshsip

Henry Moose Personal Log:

Today I got to flight test our corporation's newest toy; the Hornet Class Gunship. On first inspection I couldn't help but shake the feeling that I'd seen her somewhere before, as if in a dream!

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The two giant particle cannons aren't exactly subtle, but should make even MANTIS fighter jocks think twice about tangling with us!

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The cockpit is reasonably spacious, though the field of view isn't great.

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Despite the lack of subtlety, she looks sleek.

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The technicians assure me that whilst the drive looks like a pair of re-purposed trash cans, they are in fact a precision engineered pulse-fusion thrust chambers... and it just so happens that the most efficient geometry is identical to that of a universal standard waste disposal cylinder.

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She flies reasonably well, though is far better suited to space than atmo. Four repulsors provide VTOL capability and the landing gear is semi-retractable, the nose gear even pivots forward to act as the targeting dish array!

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Still, this is much cooler than the survey ships I have been flying for Octan thus far; I almost feel like a MANTIS Badass when flying her!

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OOC Stuff:

For this challenge I really wanted to see how much I could change whilst retaining key elements of the original design....

...also I didn't have the right parts in white to replicate the original more closely!

I toned down the cannon to ship ratio to give a (in my opinion) slightly more "peaceful" OCTAN feel to the design.

Hope you like! This has been a most enjoyable contest! Comments, criticisms and suggestions welcome. Looking forward too seeing the other entries!

Edited by woofmcmoose

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Nice fighter. You even kept the garbage can engines! The red galaxy squad sticker fits nicely on the cockpit.

One little thing is the blue squad stickers look a little out of place on an Octan ship.

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What's the title please?

Oops, it should be "Testing the Hornet"

One little thing is the blue squad stickers look a little out of place on an Octan ship.

Unfortunately I only had these parts with galaxy squad or exoforce blue stickers on and I didn't want to destroy them just for the contest.!

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Unfortunately I only had these parts with galaxy squad or exoforce blue stickers on and I didn't want to destroy them just for the contest.!

I thought that might be the case. The Galactic Titan was a wonderful set!

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