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The TSF-200 is the second in a series of gunships, designed for heavy wear, and long campaigns. Essentially a fighter-frigate hybrid, the ship is approximately five times as large as a fighter, and twelve times smaller than a frigate.

It has a single pair of engines, and is not very maneuverable, but has twice the amount of armour as the TSF-100, and also has a lighter alloy. The 27 centimetres of armour on the ship protect it well, and the three, spaced out shield generators (Upgraded from two), provide shielding for the bridge, guns, and engines.

It has a pair of linked pulse cannons on a turret, which is rotatable 360 degrees. The turret has its own personal generator, and has both a manual controller, and an automated system.

Also on the ship are two large dark-energy cannons, both with a 90 degree up/down control, used primarily to combat large ships.

The gunship is designed for maximum comfort in long campaigns, and has a lounge, a bar, two armories, and induvidual cabins. It also has seven seperate life-support systems, as heavy damage in a battle often damages life-support systems, and losing police simply to stem the rising tide of crime is inefficient.

This gunship is being mass-produced for police to take a firmer grip on crime in the outlying systems, as it is suited to both a long chase, and battles against both fighters and freighters, the two main classes of pirate craft.

Production Price: $1650 000 (R&D going into price reduction)
Sell Price: $4225 000 (Export, only sold directly to other governments)

Nice i like it so i it up for sale to a government. I'm confused about the parenthesis in the pricing.

Address To: Hyperspatial Travel
From: Brutus D'Agastino
Subject:Purchase Order

Sir, We have been in the market place to upgrade our current Space Fleets and have a great intrest in your TSF-200. As such we wish to place an order for 500 of the said unit's, with a standing order of 200 more units to be purchased at a later date.

Your research into our publicly released defence funds will clearly show we can offord the $2,112,500,000.00 for the first 500 @ $4 225 000.00 As-well you can rest assurd your craft will not be used for anything other then defence of our homeworld.

We await word of your acceptance to this lucrative deal.

{Signed}
Brutus D'Agastino
Minister of Fleet Munations
Imperial Empire of Buben

OOC: Buben just as a heads up we started the SW Alt History RP

Address To: Hyperspatial Travel
From: Brutus D'Agastino
Subject:Purchase Order

Sir, We have been in the market place to upgrade our current Space Fleets and have a great intrest in your TSF-200. As such we wish to place an order for 500 of the said unit's, with a standing order of 200 more units to be purchased at a later date.

Your research into our publicly released defence funds will clearly show we can offord the $2,112,500,000.00 for the first 500 @ $4 225 000.00 As-well you can rest assurd your craft will not be used for anything other then defence of our homeworld.

We await word of your acceptance to this lucrative deal.

{Signed}
Brutus D'Agastino
Minister of Fleet Munations
Imperial Empire of Buben

The nameless engineer swore. Preventing these things from being reverse-engineered was a bitch of a job, and he had been volunteered to do the honours. The government needed the money, especially after the recent rebellions, and, if he got this done, it'd be more than he'd earn in a year.

He began soldering again, and smiled. There. Amazingly enough, he'd completed the job within the deadline, well within, in fact. He grinned widely, and walked up to the chief engineer, and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey, I'm done. Just duplicate that, and those things will be ready for export within a few days."

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Message to Buben: Your most generous offer has been accepted, and one hundred and twelve craft are being shipped in a Lacen Freighter, with the codeword "Severance". Seven of the ships (Of course, not the ones being sold to you) are being used as escorts, as we have no doubts that pirates will attempt to capture such a valuable cargo, if they find out about it. Upon delivery, we will, of course, request payment, as it is our pride not to charge customers for their goods, until said goods are well on their way to their destination.

- Yours Cordially, Minister for Exports, Alekei T'sirech.

Nice i like it so i it up for sale to a government. I'm confused about the parenthesis in the pricing.

Well, the first one is essentially stating that these are new craft, and research is going into them to lower the production price (Although the export price won't change much), and the second one is stating that we only sell directly to other governments (so we have someone to blame if terrorists blow up a city with them)