"She wasn't designed as a pure fighter, but she sure ticks a lot of boxes."
"Apart from being several times the mass of a Zig and having half the acceleration, yeah."
"That's fixable. We can take out most of the life-support stuff like the water recycler and the galley, and there's room for two more drive units in the cargo space."
"Point. What's the unit cost going to be?"
"Probably no more than 20% over a basic Cobra. And we can probably achieve at least 70% parts-commonality, so that's always a plus."
"Alright, alright. I'm not going to stand in your way on this one; hell, under the terms of the licensing agreement I'm pretty sure I don't have legal standing to. But you do realise you're going to have every news outlet that's not a sworn enemy of Noah Scott screaming favouritism if you win, right?"
"Tom, we're John Henry Station. We do not do favouritism; when we win, we win square. You know that, Haruhi knows that, the media knows that and the richest SOB in Fenspace oughta know that. Now my 11 o'clock's here, so we'll talk later. Say hi to Babs and the kids for me."
"Apart from being several times the mass of a Zig and having half the acceleration, yeah."
"That's fixable. We can take out most of the life-support stuff like the water recycler and the galley, and there's room for two more drive units in the cargo space."
"Point. What's the unit cost going to be?"
"Probably no more than 20% over a basic Cobra. And we can probably achieve at least 70% parts-commonality, so that's always a plus."
"Alright, alright. I'm not going to stand in your way on this one; hell, under the terms of the licensing agreement I'm pretty sure I don't have legal standing to. But you do realise you're going to have every news outlet that's not a sworn enemy of Noah Scott screaming favouritism if you win, right?"
"Tom, we're John Henry Station. We do not do favouritism; when we win, we win square. You know that, Haruhi knows that, the media knows that and the richest SOB in Fenspace oughta know that. Now my 11 o'clock's here, so we'll talk later. Say hi to Babs and the kids for me."