On 1/30/2020 at 7:27 PM, ForceSensitive said:

Also, @KCDodger I found it. Told you I remembered it from old EU stuff. Even this spaceship loving enthusiast YouTuber gets Z-95 from the Fireball to boot!

This guy has no spacial sense. if you change every single aspect of something significantly, its no longer the same thing.

this is like seeing a meat cleaver and a cutlass and arguing theyre the same thing cause they both have a handle and are sharp

23 hours ago, ForceSensitive said:

I'm pretty sure that I just explained how those aren't different wings. That's just a mod. Cutting the wing open and installing a reconfigured version happens all the time. The planes I work on have four mods down the length each side. One of which did change the geometry a bit. Boeing 737s have had like 6 different wing styles I think? Changing the wing doesn't really mean much in the end. Blackhawks had a couple interesting mods that if you didn't know better you might think you were looking at a completely different bird.

The canopy looks salvaged off an X. Again, ugly. Not to mention is the same style on at least two of the other racers, green and Yellow. Must be easy to come by.

An Astromech slot versus a built in computer seems a reasonably modular swap. IRL, not uncommon to upgrade entire avionics suites from pneumatic dial gauges to digital glass. I'd say SW verse had some similar philosophies. (Expensive AF though) another component you may have scraped off the X. Again, Ugly.

And the forward fuselage is common to the Z and X both. Just replaced the nose cone. Probably had to, if the old one was wrecked anyway. You might say there's as much a chance that an X was the core chassis. Would not be a big stretch. I just tend to agree with a lot of the other enthusiast out there that it seems to be more a Zed in overall comparison. Mostly because of its small size.

As for speed I'd point to the Falcon and it's Ilk. Sure they had a good start on speed to begin with. but the Falcon of particular note was hugely enhanced in that department. So were ships like the Outrider . If speed was a concern, cutting many of the internal system down and stripping armor and structural bracing could go a long way to up the speed. Not to mention they took off the original four heavy engines and stepped up to the twin wing pods. What that gained them is undefined. And I'm willing to roll with it. They did jury rig this thing so much it's unstable as all get out.

In the end, I still see a Z. Sorry that bothers you so much I guess?

Before I went to school for A+P, I was working toward a aeronautical engineering bachelor's. Long term plan was to go self designed doctorate at EmRid with 'Space frame Construction Theory and Design'. Oh what dreams may come and all that. When I would play RPGs , I'd bring a lot of that love that started as doodles in notebooks full circle back with that new knowledge to make cool designs into more believable ones. And believable ones indeed more ridiculous ones. They are not mutually exclusive. I too love designing mythical space ships. Star wars is such a great sandbox to do it in too since you can throw aerodynamic out the window.(sidelong glance at StarViper) So I get it. We're all plane watchers in the SW verse together! 😎❤️ I've never implied otherwise.

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screw it geez i'm done don't @ me oh my gods