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Cobra Mk1

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A legend from the word go There are two types of Cobras in this world. Faulcon Delacy Cobras and everyone else's Cobras. Before they were bought out by Faulcon Delacy, Cowell & MgRaff had the enviable problem of consistently underestimating the success of their designs. This was especially true with the Cobra Mk I. As a result a lot of Cobra 1s were manufactured by licenced (and some unlicenced) 3rd parties. If you've ever heard of or flown a Cobra Mk1 with a list of defects longer then it's own flight log, it was a licenced Cobra. Ours are all, I say again, all  first party originals.  Where did we get so many? Federation auction: they had to pay for the Thargoid war somehow  How can we sell them at such a reasonable price? Luck. The brother of my cousin's daughter's boyfriend worked at the boneyard who's inventory was being auctioned.  Everyone else thought they were auctioning scrap metal. We were investing in a fleet of multirole small starships. Rat Rod...