Arcadian?
If I understood rightly if i am after Eredictor i use Arcadian? I have one still sitting parked. No scratch on his haul. Paint is crisp and shiny. I am at the moment moving from Legacy space trough Solitude ( harvesting ice) with 12 Quantum cores made as i go. God know what new ships Art going to put on market so just to be ready. Btw moved a lot trough legacy space exploring and marking VODIUM , guess one day they going to introduce tools for it and purpose . Its there and make sense to me. Most of kills actually i did in habitable, systems as rule you will have pair Infector/Decemator plus that spiky flying missile launchers (cellula or something like that). Havent see any Eredictor .Mind you every exotic, BH and such i warped in and looked for.

Glad to hear iit Misha :)

Starcadian rocks , you take Infector and Decemator simultaneously including waves of Legacy drones which turns in to join fight . Not sure any more (till test) what will Rigor do, because they nerf missiles. Just harvested 2 sets of Quantum processors for QC-s on habitable planet sector in Legacy space. had just one minor rapier(lost front 6-7 Xeno blocks. Warped out to my Quartermaster parked in local cleared Asteroid belt with mobile rep. platform.Left fight actually due to phone call i had. Artemis's builds just killing me. I am just thinking OK i need sets Aux and 4 Quantum than i peek to his work shop and i look offerings than i realise there is 2 more his ships i must have. I am spoiling his ships with extra cores where ever i can plug them. Lol my Quartermaster is with 16 cores . We talking carrier with all Antimatter Drives including 2 additional suggested by his self. All perks possible . At the moment it carries 2 CV-s on deck. Starcadian and Krill Ore Decimator.

Ok. Cheers

If you have the quantum processors for a Core9 I would go straight to an Arcadian or Starcadian, yes. They both have better upgrade options. The Halcyon is a no-extra resource requirements core7 design, similar to the Shippo, if you have quantums, no need to bring in a Halcyon.

Just getting into ship combat and was wondering if I should spawn in this or The Arcadian at Core9 (or Core11) with the turret modifications you mentioned below.

If you failed to kill Infectors on Shippo and thought you sucked at this game, then re-think and use this ship. I took down Infector with very little issues with this ship! I recommend this

Are you adding all the hub cap and ring lamp decor items as an extra lightweight 500 health layer on all your designs? I'm thinking yes, but just wanting to be sure it's not just a chosen aesthetic. Learning a ton from your builds!

I have a new airframe that is 8x heavy manuals, DM me on discord if you'd like to test it, wont be published until the weekend.

8x Heavy Manuals on a ship of this size is The Arcadian.

How feasible would it be to put 8x heavy manuals on a frame this size? Or the size of the HoneyBadger?

@ruby rod yeah those bigger ships are nice, I'm personally using the Sovereign, came to Sea of Silence with it as a Core 14, and infectors/decimators/devastators are relatively easy prey.

I left all of the retractable light plasmas and the 8 heavies and made it a Core11. Thanks again dude!

Awesome! Thanks, Artemis!

You can bring The Arcadian in as a solid Core9. Just take most of the turrets off.

Ruby all 3 of those ships fill the same role, as your first combat ship ( core7 ), for something Heavier I recommend The Arcadian. It is a heavier ship with more component space and all 8 Heavy weapon mounts.

Hey Artemis, I love your work. I am currently using the Shippo 2 to make light work of Infectors and Matter Converters. Would the Halcyon or the Ballantide be the next step up. I am loving the Shippo BTW. Anyways, thanks for all your work man!

Nice work. i need to test this one

Yes, looks like this is the Xeno version, as promised. The ST is the non-Xeno version.

Now made out of Xeno?