Cobra Mk1


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.

Cobras in a boneyard
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 

Unfortunately time has not been kind on our new fleet. Fortunately all the proprietary software has long since been made open source or cracked. Which gives us the ability to fully rebuild these hulls. New engines, new FSDs, new shields, new leather. We even found a way of fitting an extra medium hard point. Which we can power thanks to two of the ever reliable A2-3300 reactors. 
Our wizard head of starship maintenance even managed to optimize the ship for FSD boost. All the extra gubbins means she'll take up more space on the pad but she's still certifiably a Class Small ship.
Want to trade out your old MkIII for something with more style but can't afford a MkV? This is the ship for you.
Did we mention it has a large hard point and more then enough power for it?


shipCobra IRatrod Cobra III
cost1,296,000 CR864,270 CR349,718 CR
insurance cost196,058 CR437,341 CR17,486 CR
hull mass 200230180
armor 200200216
armor hardness303035
shields 3035592
heat capacity 150250225
Fuel capacity 16t16t16t
Speed 231m/s301m/s282m/s
maneuverability345
Boost speed330m/s430m/s403m/s
unladen jump range 6.4ly15.1ly11.16ly
cargo capacity 34t34t18t
max cargo 47t47t64t
small hard point 222
medium hard point 012
large hard point 110
huge hard point 000
pad type small smallsmall
 

Undisputed Classic



Before you go report us to God for ruining these historic artifacts, keep in mind that the vast majority of the ships in the boneyard wouldn't even pass muster as a homeless shelter. Rebuilding them was just about the only thing left to do with them.

That is, the majority of ships. A fair few were still in good condition and, with astromotive components salvaged from the rat-rodded Cobras we were able to restore several examples to flying condition. These are available for sale. They're not cheap, I won't lie, but trust me: this is an investment. The price of all Cobras has already gone up since we started converting ours. (Watch yourselves, we have some copy cats out there) 
They will cost you more then a scrapyard find but you also know how much they'll cost you upfront. No decade of garage work before you can take these for a joyride.

We did manage to restore 2 examples with fully original parts. One is in a museum (turns out you can get a tax rebate for donations) and the other... Well someone's got to fly it 


Serious inquiries only 





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