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I, for one, am somewhat disappointed. The fighters look pretty good, I'll probably use them... but, in my opinion, they shouldn't have been made. These are totally new ships, unique to Galaxies, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, there was a ship already in existance which the Black Sun used, the Virago (or the Star Viper I suppose would be more accurate). Instead of using this ship and basing others off it, they decided to ignore it completely and create three new ships. To me that says one of two things: either they didn't know it existed, even though it's been in games (if anyone remembers the only N64 Shadows of the Empire... I'm pretty sure they were only in one level, but they're there), or, more likely, they just ignored it. To me that just show a huge lack of respect for the subject. Now, I'm not saying they need to know every detail of every aspect of Star Wars, I mean, some things, for balancing purposes and to make the game a fun game can't be accurate, but not including the Star Viper isn't one...

I'm not trying to troll, just giving an opinion. I will say, however, that the models for the new ships look good, and the ships themselves are pretty good.

As a couple side notes: I noticed someone mentioned including the star viper as a master ship, as a bonus fighter like the firespray. The problem with that is that Xizor had the Virago (and Star Viper) made specifically for his use by MandalMotors.

Also, someone mentioned the TIE Defender, but given the time period I don't know if that fits. I'm not 100% on when defenders were made, so I'm not going to say definitely one way or the other, just that that may be a factor. Also, Defenders look really bad from every angle but straight front and straight at the side. If you actually see it in 3 dimmenions it's quite horrendous... but that's just my opinion, which I know isn'ta reason to exlude it from the game, because I'm sure there are a lot of people that like it.

I miss the Cloakshapes. /sniff

Also, how come space is so empty?

Where are the bustling spaceports we see from the ground? Those ships have to be coming from somewhere....

I think they should add some more NPC ships (Of different types) around spaceports and stations, like Action IVs, and such. Those generic "Cargo Haulers" are getting pretty boring to look at.

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