The metal used in the hull is rust-colored. It is not actual rust.

I give the OP's post 1/10. Please try harder or, come up with something more original next time. Even primary school kids are taught that rust (a.k.a. oxidation) requires oxygen, of which there is none in the vacuum of space.

Down with this sort of thing.

Don't tell me you people are so poor you can't even afford genuine rust.

Fernite carbide is red.
Tungsten carbide is gold.
Crystalline carbonide is green.
Titanium carbide is grey.

Guess which nations use which materials.

While your ignorance of Minmatar metals is excusable, your suggestion that a member of PIE would fly a Minmatar ship is not. PIE flies Amarr hulls exclusively.

"You people."

For your information, miss Ji-Young, I exclusively fly Amarrian hulls in service to the Empire.

I simply have a basic understanding of how Matari ships work.

Well, she's comparing their EWAR capabilities to the Amarr...

It's different from ship to ship, but most have the seats made from out of old sofas. They is usually quite comfy in fact

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

4. Oh please, I can access Galnet even planetside, on my phone while sitting on the toilet at my auntie's house

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

I had to look up what a phone was. Wow. That's really ancient, isn't it? It's what people used to communicate with each other back when they were still traveling around on the backs of animals, before neural uplinks and FTL communications and bread were invented.

I had no idea anybody still used that. That's so neat! I'm jealous now. I want a phone, too.

Phone, personal communicator, neural implant.

It's all semantics and works on the same principle of transmitting radio waves to a switching mechanism like an FTL transceiver.

For all the claims that Matar are backwards, we seem to be only ones in the universe who actually know how machines work.

PS - I can build you a "phone" ,yes like those old-fashioned devices people used to carry in their pockets, 30 Ghz faster than Lai Dai's devices and best of all not "locked down" so you can easily download media without paying 300 credits per song. Contact me to discuss a fair price.

Hah! I'd take someone who knows they are doing anytime over someone claiming we are backwards because we use a metal that looks like rust.

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?

2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.

3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?

4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious.

I'm not sure if I should be laughing or crying at the ignorance of Ms. Ji-Young. Probably the former.

why not cry with laughter? then you can do both just to be sure!

Don't let the downmarket ones like the Slasher fool you, Matari ships are just as solidly engineered and spaceworth as the efforts of any of the other empires, and come with the additional advantage of being easier to maintain and repair.

One Slasher is laughable

This is a sentiment that will take you far in life as a frigate pilot, and will not lead to the loss of your expensive Imperial Navy-issue frigate to a ship that cost less than your guns.

That said though, I do find the solar panels to be a very odd design.

What if it got blasted away by a stray hybrid charge? Does the ship get no power?

[quote=Heinel Coventina]Personaly I call them targets of opportunity, a reactor goes critical faster when there is nowhere to dump excess heat but inside the vessel.

Now that I'm looking at the fittings on my Slicer, running price checks on the T2s and the Scorches... as well as their stats. Yes, I agree with you. This is exactly the case.