I've looked at the model Nathan gave me and it looks like an attempt to put lepton cannons onto a fighter. Lepton cannons on the gunship are huge and similarily shaped.
So I conclude that it's a ship with the maneuverability of a fighter with some light lepton cannons which do, oh, 50 damage? It has some armor plating apparently but not excessively.
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I've always dreamed of a fighter with lepton beams, the most powerful Ishiman laser availible. I think its a pretty nice idea, a small and maneuverable fighter with heavy firepower. Hey, why don't they put THESE on Ishiman Carriers?
Anyway, nice PICT slug! Maybe you should make some battle scene between Cantharan fighters and Ishiman Escorts. That would be cool. What do you think?
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I don't think that all of the parts on all ships match up exactly. If they did, the engineering pod would have pk beams and the cargo ship would have lepton beams. And I think those things on the sides of the escort are probably engines or some weapon we haven't seen before. Also, I think it's probably more of a cruiser than a fighter, just like the Obish escort.
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that would be about right slug. But the lepatons would do 80 damage. You dont ussually decrease damage on wepons. If you wanted to decrease the damage it could do, you would decrease the firing rate. Although if you compare it with the obish version (obish adv is 1. um.. something) the lepaton ant normal firing rate would be just a slight bit more power full then the green pulse thingy (forgot the name).
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just take my post, and imagine everything is speeled right.
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No, I'd thought of a light lepton beam (PK beam firing rate, same damage as lepton) and a Core pulse gun. Maybe a cloak. I've always thought of it as a light destroyer. (of course, I've always thought of the Obish escort to being a light destroyer)
I fiddled around with Hera, and changed the UNS ROGUE to the Ish. Escort sprite, armed with an L pulse, a KL beam and a rapid Magneto. Result: Best short range ship. 
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**green pulse thingy (forgot the name).
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Name: Anti-Matter Pulse Reactor I
Variants: Anti-Matter Pulse Reactor II*
Damage: 100 Shield Units
Range: 280
Used By: Cantharans/Salrilians
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Dang. Well, here's a bunch of info on Protopulse Weapons:
Name: Protopulse 2 Gun
Variant 1: Twin Pulse Cannon*
Variant 2: ProtoPulse Cannon**
Damage: 100 Shield Units
Range: 520
Used By: Ishiman Protectorate/Free Worlds of Obain
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Taken from mission breifing in chapter 2 **
The Obish Escorts have Salrilian Stealth Field and Ishima Core Pulse Guns**
** - Used on several different types of stations and bases.
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I don't exactly see what you mean. The ProtoPulse Cannon that I listed is put on stations, and thus it is variant number 2. The Twin Pulse Cannon is variant number 1. The standard version is the Protopulse 2 Gun (as far as I know), and since its the standard version, it isn't listed as a variant, so the other two variants are #1 and #2.
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Yeah, just image half a dozen or so Ishiman Interceptors, Lepton Beams blazing, charging your little and lonely cruiser. Scary, huh?
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I think those probably aren't lepton beams cannons. They don't look exactly like them, and I'm sure the Ishiman probably have several other weapons that aren't in the game. Besides, if we thought that all ships with parts on them that looked like lepton beam cannons actually had lepton beams, we'd have to assume that the Ishiman cargo ship was armed with lepton beams.
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You're assuming a bit too much. Who says all Lepton beams look EXACTLY alike? There may be several different variants of the original design.
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Nah, I think you're assuming a bit too much. Even if they didn't look exactly the same, I'd still expect them to look similar. The only similarities I see with the cannons on the escort would point to them being fighter bay exits, which they can't be. Name some stuff that is similar between those and lepton beam cannons.
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Actually, of all the Lepton Cannons that I've seen, the one on the Ishiman Escort are the most different. In fact, the Lepton Cannons on the Gunship look more like the engines on the Cargo Ship than the Lepton Cannons on the Escort.
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**They do look alike, whick is why I posted the graphic at the top. Look a bit more closely.
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I've looked closely, and I don't see anything similar. Couldja just name a few things?
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