In case you’ve missed it, CCP announced a new holiday gift shuttle, the “Zephyr“. (Nothing at that link yet but that should change soon). And props for including wallpaper-sized screenshots (go see them)!
But why should we care? Shuttles don’t do anything, right?
It has its own special probe launcher (for wormholes) and Sleeper NPC‘s won‘t shoot it in the same way that all NPCs won‘t shoot pods.
This means that we’ve got a custom-built ship perfect for scouting wormhole sites. Now, the covops frigates already did this, but they could get decloaked and destroyed. Anybody who’s spent any time in wormholes knows how that feels.
A few other thoughts: will it have an absurdly low signature radius? (Perhaps.) Any cargo hold? (I assume so, for the probes, though I hope they didn’t build it with a dedicated bay.) Will non-Sleeper NPCs actually ignore it, too? (If we’re lucky.) Can I fit a salvager on it? (Almost certainly not.)
The mind races with the potential.
Image credit seriykotik1970 (statue by Antonio Corradini)
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