Ehehe. Well, it's not only a Gunnm shoutout, it's also simply a convoluted name for "accelerator cannon". And we all like convoluted names. I've had a lot of entertainment out of seeing people refer to the Kurmaraja as "kormana", "Kurojo", "Kurmaruma" and basically everything under the sun that isn't "Kurma" or "kurmaraja."
Ares is also an insanely underrated game that suffered under an awful publisher until Ambrosia got ahold of it.
ANYWAY.
I just took a lot of BRDY frigs under the chopping block.
Scarab lost Burst Jets and now has the Sentinel Drone instead. The Mantis has Burst Jets and its hardpoints have changed. (but don't worry, you can still rock 2x rockets on the front)
The Locust has a teleporter that "stutters" you in your current vector, which makes it a lot more evasive.
Currently, the breakdown is a lot like this:
Locust: Workhorse frig, good for chasing, point capping and overall combat duty, relatively undemanding out of combat. Like an inbetween of a Wolf and Lasher.
Robberfly: A pair of souped up engines and three weapon mounts tacked on to a reactor. No shield. Like a more aggressive Hound, except it hardly has any logistical demands/benefits.
Scarab: A slow, huge frigate with ample cargo hold and a very heavy weapons capacity, that is expensive to deploy, but beneficial to your fleet out of combat. Very slow CR decay.
Mantis: High-performance frig. Think Tempest, Hyperion.
Also, the Sentinel drone now has one Shard and one small Argus beam, the Krait has a pair of Ichneumons and a Shredder, and the Serket has two Linear Pulse Cannons and a Shredder. The Cetonia is going to fill a Mule-like role in BRDY fleets and a bigger freighter is in the works for civilian heavy lifting.
Also touched up fighter sprites:
Thoughts?