{"data":{"id":15265,"title":"Q&A: Esperia Vanduul Blade - Part II","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/engineering\/15265-Q-A-Esperia-Vanduul-Blade-Part-II","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15265","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15265","channel":"Engineering","category":"Development","series":"Concept Ship Q&A","images":[{"id":4713,"name":"Light_Fighter_Blade_Materials_01.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/y5sdjiaftqe8or\/source\/Light_Fighter_Blade_Materials_01.jpg","alt":"","size":749335,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-03-23T19:52:20+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4713","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4713\/similar"},{"id":4723,"name":"Vanduul1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/i28j6cwi605tmr\/source\/Vanduul1.jpg","alt":"Concept Art - Vanduul Blade","size":7165582,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-03-17T23:18:24+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4723","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/4723\/similar"},{"id":25004,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w0shv2sobeaiw\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":927693,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-05-09T20:01:24+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/25004","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/25004\/similar"},{"id":38062,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/huwhfjtdvra4r\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":3377215,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2025-03-21T15:18:25+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/38062","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/38062\/similar"}],"images_count":20,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\nAnother Concept Sale, another Question & Answer session. Since Friday, we\u2019ve been collecting questions from the dedicated Q&A post here and today our designers and artists working on the ship will answer another 10 questions for the community. Here we go.\n\nQuestion & Answer\nWill we be able to purchase the Blade in game for UEC at some point or obtain it some other way? Or is this sale our only opportunity to get one?\nThe \u2018replica\u2019 Blades will not be commonly available on the open market; we intend them to be something that\u2019s earned rather than outright bought in the finished game. We may offer the ship again through the pledge site when it\u2019s flight ready, but it will not be a design that\u2019s commonly available at an ordinary ship dealer.\n\nWhat unique role does this ship occupy that justifies its cost? It\u2019s a light fighter, roughly on par with the Gladius in terms of thrust and weaponry, but it costs as much as a Warden.\nVanduul ships are priced to reflect their relative rarity; the Blade is cheaper than the Scythe as it is a less advanced design (fewer overall components) but it is not something a ship company would price to compete with something like an Aurora.\n\nWill this be the last Blade sale, like the Glaive and the Scynthe sale, or could it be that you bring up another sale at some point of time (for example Anniversary Sale).\nWe have no plans for another sale at the moment, but we certainly reserve the right to offer it again (without LTI\/concept model\/etc.)\n\nWill people be punished for destroying Vanduul ships owned and operated by players with a clear human IFF signal?\nPilots will be punished the same, regardless of what ships their victims were piloting.\n\nWill the Blade allow players to penetrate Vanduul space with a better chance of being unmolested? Or will every Vanduul recognize it as an impostor?\nThe Blade, as an Esperia replica, will not ship with a Vanduul IFF transponder. While you may fool a Freelancer pilot looking out of their window, Vanduul fleets know their own.\n\nWhich set of weapon stats are correct? Does it have 3 S1 Fixed or 2 S1 Gimbaled and 1 S2 Fixed?\nThe Blade has, 2x S1 Gimbaled and 1x S2 Fixed weapons.\n\nIs there any chance the Blade might have some unique\/hidden systems or weapons we will not see on any other ship, like some iconic Vanduul tech?\nNo, the Blade is very much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get fighter. It is fast, light and maneuverable.\n\nWill Esperia sell replica Vanduul components to alter configurations of weapons or equipment on their replica Vanduul ships or is each ship pretty much sold as is with no real modification options?\nThe configurable component slots are such that they will be able to be configured with other human-made components of the same size. What Esperia\u2019s future business plans are, are not announced at this time.\n\nStar Citizen will feature two additional base types: \u201cVanduul trading posts and hidden smuggler asteroids.\u201d as part of the $4.5m stretch goal. Will this have any effect on our Vanduul ships?\nNo, these are for trading goods and not warships. The Vanduul don\u2019t sell their own ships to humans!\n\nWill players be able to capture original Blades\/Glaives\/Scythes that have not been converted? If so, will there be a conversion process that allows them to be flyable by humans?\nThere will be a process, although the details have not been implemented yet!","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\nEin weiteres Konzept Verkauf, eine weitere Frage & Antwort Sitzung. Seit Freitag sammeln wir hier Fragen von der speziellen Q&A-Post und heute werden unsere Designer und K\u00fcnstler, die auf dem Schiff arbeiten, weitere 10 Fragen f\u00fcr die Community beantworten. Los geht's.\n\nFragen & Antworten\nWerden wir in der Lage sein, die Blade im Spiel f\u00fcr UEC irgendwann zu kaufen oder auf andere Weise zu erhalten? Oder ist dieser Verkauf unsere einzige Chance, eine zu bekommen?\nDie \"Replikat\"-Klingen werden nicht allgemein auf dem freien Markt erh\u00e4ltlich sein; wir beabsichtigen, dass sie etwas sind, das verdient und nicht direkt im fertigen Spiel gekauft wird. Wir k\u00f6nnen das Schiff wieder \u00fcber die Verpf\u00e4ndungsstelle anbieten, wenn es flugbereit ist, aber es wird kein Design sein, das allgemein bei einem normalen Schiffsh\u00e4ndler erh\u00e4ltlich ist.\n\nWelche einzigartige Rolle spielt dieses Schiff, die seine Kosten rechtfertigt? Es ist ein leichter K\u00e4mpfer, der in Bezug auf Schub und Waffen etwa gleichwertig mit der Gladius ist, aber er kostet so viel wie ein Aufseher.\nVanduul-Schiffe sind preislich so bemessen, dass sie ihre relative Seltenheit widerspiegeln; die Blade ist billiger als die Scythe, da es sich um ein weniger fortschrittliches Design (weniger Gesamtkomponenten) handelt, aber es ist nicht etwas, das eine Reederei mit so etwas wie einer Aurora vergleichen w\u00fcrde.\n\nWird dies der letzte Klingenverkauf sein, wie der Glaive- und der Scynthe-Verkauf, oder k\u00f6nnte es sein, dass Sie irgendwann einen anderen Verkauf erw\u00e4hnen (z.B. Jubil\u00e4umsverkauf).\nWir haben im Moment keine Pl\u00e4ne f\u00fcr einen weiteren Verkauf, behalten uns aber das Recht vor, ihn erneut anzubieten (ohne LTI\/Konzeptmodell\/usw.).\n\nWerden Menschen bestraft, weil sie Vanduul-Schiffe zerst\u00f6rt haben, die Spielern geh\u00f6ren und von Spielern mit einem klaren menschlichen IFF-Signal betrieben werden?\nPiloten werden genauso bestraft, unabh\u00e4ngig davon, welche Schiffe ihre Opfer gesteuert haben.\n\nWird die Klinge es den Spielern erm\u00f6glichen, den Raum Vanduul zu durchdringen, mit einer besseren Chance, nicht bel\u00e4stigt zu werden? Oder wird jeder Vanduul es als Betr\u00fcger erkennen?\nDie Blade wird als Esperia-Nachbildung nicht mit einem Vanduul IFF-Transponder ausgeliefert. W\u00e4hrend Sie einen Freelancer-Piloten t\u00e4uschen k\u00f6nnen, der aus seinem Fenster schaut, kennen Vanduul-Flotten ihre eigenen.\n\nWelcher Satz von Waffenstatistiken ist korrekt? Hat es 3 S1 Fixed oder 2 S1 Gimbaled und 1 S2 Fixed?\nDie Klinge hat 2x S1 kardanische und 1x S2 feste Waffen.\n\nGibt es eine Chance, dass die Blade einige einzigartige\/versteckte Systeme oder Waffen hat, die wir auf keinem anderen Schiff sehen werden, wie z.B. eine ikonische Vanduul-Technologie?\nNein, die Klinge ist sehr wohl ein K\u00e4mpfer, was man sieht. Er ist schnell, leicht und wendig.\n\nWird Esperia Replikate von Vanduul-Komponenten verkaufen, um die Konfiguration von Waffen oder Ausr\u00fcstung auf ihren Vanduul-Schiffen zu \u00e4ndern, oder wird jedes Schiff so gut wie m\u00f6glich verkauft, ohne echte Modifikationsoptionen?\nDie konfigurierbaren Komponenten-Slots sind so gestaltet, dass sie mit anderen von Menschen hergestellten Komponenten gleicher Gr\u00f6\u00dfe konfiguriert werden k\u00f6nnen. Was die zuk\u00fcnftigen Gesch\u00e4ftspl\u00e4ne von Esperia sind, werden derzeit noch nicht bekannt gegeben.\n\nStar Citizen wird zwei zus\u00e4tzliche Basistypen anbieten: \"Vanduul Handelsposten und versteckte Schmuggler-Asteroiden\" als Teil des 4,5 Mio. $ Stretch-Ziels. Wird sich das auf unsere Vanduul-Schiffe auswirken?\nNein, diese sind f\u00fcr den Handel mit Waren und nicht f\u00fcr Kriegsschiffe. Die Vanduul verkaufen ihre eigenen Schiffe nicht an Menschen!\n\nWerden Spieler in der Lage sein, originale Blades\/Glaives\/Sensen zu erbeuten, die nicht konvertiert wurden? Wenn ja, wird es einen Umwandlungsprozess geben, der es ihnen erm\u00f6glicht, f\u00fcr den Menschen fliegbar zu sein?\nEs wird einen Prozess geben, obwohl die Details noch nicht umgesetzt sind!","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\nAnother Concept Sale, another Question & Answer session. Since Friday, we\u2019ve been collecting questions from the dedicated Q&A post here and today our designers and artists working on the ship will answer another 10 questions for the community. Here we go.\n\nQuestion & Answer\nWill we be able to purchase the Blade in game for UEC at some point or obtain it some other way? Or is this sale our only opportunity to get one?\nThe \u2018replica\u2019 Blades will not be commonly available on the open market; we intend them to be something that\u2019s earned rather than outright bought in the finished game. We may offer the ship again through the pledge site when it\u2019s flight ready, but it will not be a design that\u2019s commonly available at an ordinary ship dealer.\n\nWhat unique role does this ship occupy that justifies its cost? It\u2019s a light fighter, roughly on par with the Gladius in terms of thrust and weaponry, but it costs as much as a Warden.\nVanduul ships are priced to reflect their relative rarity; the Blade is cheaper than the Scythe as it is a less advanced design (fewer overall components) but it is not something a ship company would price to compete with something like an Aurora.\n\nWill this be the last Blade sale, like the Glaive and the Scynthe sale, or could it be that you bring up another sale at some point of time (for example Anniversary Sale).\nWe have no plans for another sale at the moment, but we certainly reserve the right to offer it again (without LTI\/concept model\/etc.)\n\nWill people be punished for destroying Vanduul ships owned and operated by players with a clear human IFF signal?\nPilots will be punished the same, regardless of what ships their victims were piloting.\n\nWill the Blade allow players to penetrate Vanduul space with a better chance of being unmolested? Or will every Vanduul recognize it as an impostor?\nThe Blade, as an Esperia replica, will not ship with a Vanduul IFF transponder. While you may fool a Freelancer pilot looking out of their window, Vanduul fleets know their own.\n\nWhich set of weapon stats are correct? Does it have 3 S1 Fixed or 2 S1 Gimbaled and 1 S2 Fixed?\nThe Blade has, 2x S1 Gimbaled and 1x S2 Fixed weapons.\n\nIs there any chance the Blade might have some unique\/hidden systems or weapons we will not see on any other ship, like some iconic Vanduul tech?\nNo, the Blade is very much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get fighter. It is fast, light and maneuverable.\n\nWill Esperia sell replica Vanduul components to alter configurations of weapons or equipment on their replica Vanduul ships or is each ship pretty much sold as is with no real modification options?\nThe configurable component slots are such that they will be able to be configured with other human-made components of the same size. What Esperia\u2019s future business plans are, are not announced at this time.\n\nStar Citizen will feature two additional base types: \u201cVanduul trading posts and hidden smuggler asteroids.\u201d as part of the $4.5m stretch goal. Will this have any effect on our Vanduul ships?\nNo, these are for trading goods and not warships. The Vanduul don\u2019t sell their own ships to humans!\n\nWill players be able to capture original Blades\/Glaives\/Scythes that have not been converted? If so, will there be a conversion process that allows them to be flyable by humans?\nThere will be a process, although the details have not been implemented yet!"},"links_count":2,"comment_count":47,"created_at":"2016-03-25T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 07:22:09","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15264,"next_id":15266}}