{"data":{"id":15614,"title":"Q&A: Esperia Prowler - Part II","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/engineering\/15614-Q-A-Esperia-Prowler-Part-II","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15614","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15614","channel":"Engineering","category":"Development","series":"Concept Ship Q&A","images":[{"id":5398,"name":"Esperia-Prowler-Landing-Pad-V08.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/yqjj3pwpm1rdwr\/source\/Esperia-Prowler-Landing-Pad-V08.jpg","alt":"","size":3016717,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-11-18T22:28:36+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5398","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5398\/similar"},{"id":5408,"name":"Esperia_Prowler_Cockpit.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/76aun3u26jfw8r\/source\/Esperia_Prowler_Cockpit.jpg","alt":"","size":2468050,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2016-11-17T16:15:21+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5408","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/5408\/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":26763,"name":"source.ctm","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/fdxvamrt7opj4\/source.ctm","alt":"","size":2037585,"mime_type":"application\/octet-stream","last_modified":"2020-04-14T21:23:14+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26763","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26763\/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":21,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\nAnother Concept Sale, another Question & Answer session. Since last Friday, we\u2019ve been collecting questions from the dedicated Q&A post here and today our designers working on the ship will answer 10 more questions for the community. We are very excited to discuss this ship in more detail, so let\u2019s jump right into part 2!\n\nNamed after the UPE military designation, the Prowler is a modernized version of the infamous Tevarin armored personnel carrier. Esperia\u2019s astroengineers were given unmitigated access to study original versions of the ship recently discovered in the Kabal system to help meticulously reconstruct the vehicle. Now, the Prowler is the perfect fusion of two cultures: the elegance and effectiveness of the Tevarin war machine combined with the reliability of modern Human technology.\n\nSpecial thanks to Calix Reneau, Ben Lesnick, and Steven Kam for taking the time to answer these questions for us.\n\nQuestion & Answer\nWould it be possible for the loaner ship to be a 2.6 flyable Hoplite?\nYes, we will assign the Hoplite as the loaner for anyone who purchases a Prowler concept ship. That\u2019ll give you a chance to practice operations with your org mates while we build out the Prowler.\n\nWhat is meant by \u201cits wide variety of defensive countermeasures at the ready?\u201d This seems to suggest it has more or different countermeasures than other ships, is this the case?\nThis indicates that the Prowler has the full range of countermeasure types: flares, chaff and decoys. Many ships have only one or sometimes two of these at a time.\n\nIf the power or shields fail when the airshields are in use, will it cause sudden decompression?\nYes, losing your airshields while in space would have the same effect as a hull decompression event. (Of course, fully losing power would also cause many other problems for a ship in flight!) Note that the cockpits are sealed from the rest of the ship, so it would be possible to continue flying despite damage to the barracks area.\n\nDoes the Prowler have a bed\/toilet?\nThe Prowler does not currently have a bed or toilet, but we are still configuring the interior. There is a \u2018ready room\u2019 area behind the cockpits which could be used for this purpose, but that might be better served as an area to equip armor and store additional weapons and ammunition.\n\nCan the grav levs be reversed and attach the ship like a magnet to the hulls of other ships.\nWe are still developing the systems needed for ship boarding, but the intent is to have the Prowler as a key boarding ship. This will likely use a variation of what you have described above, but we do not want to promise exact details until the boarding system is finished.\n\nWill the one-way glass be Tevarin ship exclusive, or is there a chance we can see this as a modular option for other ships as well?\nWe are treating the \u2018one way\u2019 cockpit as exclusive to Tevarin ships for the time being; for now, we are going to consider it part of the ship hull rather than an individual component (meaning the ship was designed in specific ways in order to use it.) That doesn\u2019t mean the Prowler will be the only ship that uses this tech, though\u2026 we\u2019d love to further develop both their historical and present-day ship designs!\n\nDoes the Prowler have any docking capabilities?\nIf you mean ship-to-ship docking, no. That kind of boarding approach is not in line with Tevarin practice, which much preferred their airshielded Deployment Portals and elite training to optimize their effectiveness. Installing a physical docking hatch compatible with human standards of the time was not deemed a good use of the ship\u2019s mass or internal volume budget. As per their philosophy, Esperia decided not to alter or diminish their Prowler\u2019s experience and design choices by compromising other features in order to install a contemporary docking hatch.\n\nIs there any more detail you can go into about the \u201cPhalanx Shield?\u201d\nIt takes the current shield allocation gameplay to the extreme to make sure all your baby chickens make it safely to the dance floor. Well, in all seriousness, let us revisit the description of the Phalanx Shield in the post: \u201cA point defense shield that provides a very strong but limited protective face, the Phalanx Shield was one of the reasons that the Prowler became such a significant defensive force when flown in a squad with shields deployed and its wide variety of defensive countermeasures at the ready.\u201d We have already indicated that maximizing your shield effectiveness for larger ships could be a dedicated job for a crewman. And some of you have also noticed in the lore that the Tevarin Phalanx shield has been depicted as being quite effective even against the UPE\u2019s technologically superior weapons technology of the time, so it\u2019s quite powerful if you use it well; but therein lies the rub \u2013 if you\u2019re not managing it, you\u2019re not using it well. We are still working on shield management systems in general, but that\u2019s the goal \u2013 the Tevarin style Phalanx Shield is intended to be on the high end of rewarding player skill in shield management, but be even more skill-reliant than \u2018normal\u2019 shields.\n\nThis is more of a physics question. With the Prowler being able to sneak up on large ships to deploy EVA troops, are there plans to allow crew members who exit a ship to retain their velocity? With the current unrealistic system of slowing down to a standstill after jumping into a friction-less vacuum, I feel it\u2019ll be near impossible to board unless the captain of the ship is AFK.\nWe spoke with John Pritchett who said the EVA friction is a bug. We do plan to address this bug at some point. Of course, even if you retain velocity upon exiting a ship, that by itself doesn\u2019t necessarily make boarding another ship at speed easy, either. We\u2019re as interested as you are in seeing just how good you can get at it \u2013 and under what conditions.\n\nDoes the UEE use any of the Tevarin themed ships officially?\nThe UEE\u2019s dropship needs are met by the various options provided by standard military contracts with Anvil, Aegis and other suppliers of related equipment. That\u2019s not to say that the Prowler is not utilized for training purposes and special ops, but currently they are not used on a massive scale.","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\nEin weiteres Konzept Verkauf, eine weitere Frage & Antwort Sitzung. Seit letztem Freitag sammeln wir hier Fragen von der speziellen Q&A-Post und heute werden unsere Designer, die auf dem Schiff arbeiten, 10 weitere Fragen f\u00fcr die Community beantworten. Wir freuen uns sehr, dieses Schiff im Detail zu besprechen, also springen wir gleich zu Teil 2!\n\nBenannt nach der milit\u00e4rischen Bezeichnung der UPE, ist der Prowler eine modernisierte Version des ber\u00fcchtigten gepanzerten Personalwagens Tevarin. Die Astroingenieure von Esperia erhielten uneingeschr\u00e4nkten Zugang, um die Originalversionen des Schiffes zu studieren, die k\u00fcrzlich im Kabal-System entdeckt wurden, um die sorgf\u00e4ltige Rekonstruktion des Fahrzeugs zu erleichtern. Nun ist der Prowler die perfekte Verschmelzung zweier Kulturen: die Eleganz und Wirksamkeit der Tevarin-Kriegsmaschine kombiniert mit der Zuverl\u00e4ssigkeit der modernen menschlichen Technologie.\n\nBesonderer Dank gilt Calix Reneau, Ben Lesnick und Steven Kam, die sich die Zeit genommen haben, diese Fragen f\u00fcr uns zu beantworten.\n\nFragen & Antworten\nW\u00e4re es m\u00f6glich, dass das Leihschiff ein 2.6 fliegender Hoplite ist?\nJa, wir werden den Hoplite als Leihger\u00e4t f\u00fcr jeden einsetzen, der ein Prowler-Konzeptschiff kauft. Das gibt dir die M\u00f6glichkeit, den Umgang mit deinen Organisationskameraden zu \u00fcben, w\u00e4hrend wir den Prowler bauen.\n\nWas versteht man unter \"seiner gro\u00dfen Vielfalt an Abwehrma\u00dfnahmen in Bereitschaft\"? Dies scheint darauf hinzudeuten, dass es mehr oder andere Gegenma\u00dfnahmen gibt als andere Schiffe, ist das der Fall?\nDies deutet darauf hin, dass der Prowler \u00fcber die gesamte Palette der Gegenma\u00dfnahmen verf\u00fcgt: Leuchtfeuer, Spreu und Lockmittel. Viele Schiffe haben nur ein oder manchmal zwei davon auf einmal.\n\nWenn die Energie oder die Schilde w\u00e4hrend der Benutzung der Luftschilde ausfallen, wird dies zu einer pl\u00f6tzlichen Dekompression f\u00fchren?\nJa, der Verlust deiner Luftschilde im Weltraum h\u00e4tte den gleichen Effekt wie eine Rumpfdekompression. (Nat\u00fcrlich w\u00fcrde ein vollst\u00e4ndiger Leistungsverlust auch viele andere Probleme f\u00fcr ein Schiff im Flug verursachen!) Beachten Sie, dass die Cockpits vom Rest des Schiffes abgedichtet sind, so dass es m\u00f6glich w\u00e4re, trotz Sch\u00e4den im Kasernenbereich weiter zu fliegen.\n\nHat der Prowler ein Bett \/ eine Toilette?\nDer Prowler hat derzeit kein Bett oder Toilette, aber wir sind immer noch dabei, den Innenraum zu konfigurieren. Hinter den Cockpits befindet sich ein Bereitschaftsraum, der zu diesem Zweck genutzt werden k\u00f6nnte, der aber besser als Bereich f\u00fcr die Ausr\u00fcstung von R\u00fcstungen und die Lagerung zus\u00e4tzlicher Waffen und Munition dienen k\u00f6nnte.\n\nK\u00f6nnen die Gravitationslevs umgekehrt werden und das Schiff wie ein Magnet an den R\u00fcmpfen anderer Schiffe befestigen?\nWir entwickeln noch immer die Systeme, die f\u00fcr das Boarding von Schiffen ben\u00f6tigt werden, aber es ist beabsichtigt, den Prowler als wichtiges Boarding-Schiff zu haben. Dies wird wahrscheinlich eine Variation dessen verwenden, was Sie oben beschrieben haben, aber wir wollen keine genauen Details versprechen, bis das Boarding-System fertig ist.\n\nWird das Einwegglas exklusiv f\u00fcr das Tevarin-Schiff sein, oder besteht die M\u00f6glichkeit, dass wir dies als modulare Option auch f\u00fcr andere Schiffe sehen k\u00f6nnen?\nWir behandeln das Einweg-Cockpit vorerst als ausschlie\u00dflich f\u00fcr Tevarin-Schiffe; vorerst werden wir es als Teil des Schiffsrumpfes betrachten und nicht als eine einzelne Komponente (d.h. das Schiff wurde auf bestimmte Weise konstruiert, um es zu benutzen.) Das bedeutet nicht, dass der Prowler das einzige Schiff sein wird, das diese Technologie verwendet, obwohl.... wir w\u00fcrden gerne sowohl ihre historischen als auch die heutigen Schiffskonzepte weiterentwickeln!\n\nHat der Prowler irgendwelche Andockm\u00f6glichkeiten?\nWenn Sie das Andocken von Schiff zu Schiff meinen, nein. Diese Art des Boarding-Ansatzes steht nicht im Einklang mit der Tevarin-Praxis, die ihre luftgesch\u00fctzten Deployment-Portale und Elitetrainings zur Optimierung ihrer Effektivit\u00e4t sehr bevorzugte. Die Installation einer physischen Dockluke, die mit den damaligen menschlichen Standards vereinbar war, wurde nicht als eine gute Nutzung der Schiffsmasse oder des internen Volumenbudgets angesehen. Gem\u00e4\u00df ihrer Philosophie entschied sich Esperia, die Erfahrungen und Designentscheidungen ihres Prowlers nicht zu \u00e4ndern oder zu schm\u00e4lern, indem sie andere Funktionen kompromittierte, um eine zeitgem\u00e4\u00dfe Dockluke zu installieren.\n\nGibt es noch weitere Details, auf die Sie \u00fcber das \"Phalanxschild\" eingehen k\u00f6nnen?\nEs nimmt das aktuelle Schildverteilungsspiel bis zum \u00c4u\u00dfersten, um sicherzustellen, dass alle Ihre Babyh\u00fchner es sicher auf die Tanzfl\u00e4che schaffen. Nun, im Ernst, lassen Sie uns noch einmal auf die Beschreibung des Phalanxschildes im Beitrag zur\u00fcckkommen: \"Der Phalanxschild ist ein Punkt-Verteidigungsschild, der ein sehr starkes, aber begrenztes Schutzgesicht bietet, und war einer der Gr\u00fcnde, warum der Prowler zu einer so bedeutenden Verteidigungskraft wurde, wenn er in einem Trupp mit eingesetzten Schilden und seiner gro\u00dfen Vielfalt an Abwehrma\u00dfnahmen in Bereitschaft geflogen wurde.\" Wir haben bereits darauf hingewiesen, dass die Maximierung der Schildeffektivit\u00e4t f\u00fcr gr\u00f6\u00dfere Schiffe eine spezielle Aufgabe f\u00fcr einen Besatzungsmitglied sein k\u00f6nnte. Und einige von euch haben auch in der \u00dcberlieferung bemerkt, dass der Tevarin-Phalanx-Schild selbst gegen die technologisch \u00fcberlegene Waffentechnologie der damaligen UPE als sehr effektiv dargestellt wurde, so dass er ziemlich m\u00e4chtig ist, wenn man ihn gut einsetzt; aber darin liegt der Haken - wenn man ihn nicht verwaltet, benutzt man ihn nicht gut. Wir arbeiten immer noch an Schildmanagementsystemen im Allgemeinen, aber das ist das Ziel - der Phalanxschild im Tevarin-Stil soll am oberen Ende der lohnenden Spielerf\u00e4higkeiten im Schildmanagement stehen, aber noch zuverl\u00e4ssiger als normale Schilde sein.\n\nDas ist eher eine physikalische Frage. Wenn der Prowler in der Lage ist, sich auf gro\u00dfen Schiffen anzuschleichen, um EVA-Truppen zu stationieren, gibt es Pl\u00e4ne, den Besatzungsmitgliedern, die ein Schiff verlassen, zu erlauben, ihre Geschwindigkeit beizubehalten? Mit dem derzeitigen unrealistischen System des Abbremsens bis zum Stillstand nach dem Sprung in ein reibungsloses Vakuum, glaube ich, dass es fast unm\u00f6glich sein wird, an Bord zu gehen, es sei denn, der Kapit\u00e4n des Schiffes ist AFK.\nWir sprachen mit John Pritchett, der sagte, dass die EVA-Reibung ein Fehler ist. Wir planen, diesen Fehler irgendwann zu beheben. Selbst wenn man die Geschwindigkeit beim Verlassen eines Schiffes beibeh\u00e4lt, macht das allein das Einsteigen in ein anderes Schiff nat\u00fcrlich auch nicht unbedingt einfach. Wir sind genauso interessiert wie Sie, wie Sie, wie Sie sehen, wie gut Sie es machen k\u00f6nnen - und unter welchen Bedingungen.\n\nBenutzt die UEE offiziell eines der Schiffe mit dem Thema Tevarin?\nDer Bedarf an Dropships der UEE wird durch die verschiedenen Optionen gedeckt, die durch Standardvertr\u00e4ge mit Anvil, Aegis und anderen Lieferanten von entsprechender Ausr\u00fcstung angeboten werden. Das hei\u00dft nicht, dass der Prowler nicht f\u00fcr Trainingszwecke und Spezialeinheiten verwendet wird, aber derzeit werden sie nicht in gro\u00dfem Umfang eingesetzt.","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\nAnother Concept Sale, another Question & Answer session. Since last Friday, we\u2019ve been collecting questions from the dedicated Q&A post here and today our designers working on the ship will answer 10 more questions for the community. We are very excited to discuss this ship in more detail, so let\u2019s jump right into part 2!\n\nNamed after the UPE military designation, the Prowler is a modernized version of the infamous Tevarin armored personnel carrier. Esperia\u2019s astroengineers were given unmitigated access to study original versions of the ship recently discovered in the Kabal system to help meticulously reconstruct the vehicle. Now, the Prowler is the perfect fusion of two cultures: the elegance and effectiveness of the Tevarin war machine combined with the reliability of modern Human technology.\n\nSpecial thanks to Calix Reneau, Ben Lesnick, and Steven Kam for taking the time to answer these questions for us.\n\nQuestion & Answer\nWould it be possible for the loaner ship to be a 2.6 flyable Hoplite?\nYes, we will assign the Hoplite as the loaner for anyone who purchases a Prowler concept ship. That\u2019ll give you a chance to practice operations with your org mates while we build out the Prowler.\n\nWhat is meant by \u201cits wide variety of defensive countermeasures at the ready?\u201d This seems to suggest it has more or different countermeasures than other ships, is this the case?\nThis indicates that the Prowler has the full range of countermeasure types: flares, chaff and decoys. Many ships have only one or sometimes two of these at a time.\n\nIf the power or shields fail when the airshields are in use, will it cause sudden decompression?\nYes, losing your airshields while in space would have the same effect as a hull decompression event. (Of course, fully losing power would also cause many other problems for a ship in flight!) Note that the cockpits are sealed from the rest of the ship, so it would be possible to continue flying despite damage to the barracks area.\n\nDoes the Prowler have a bed\/toilet?\nThe Prowler does not currently have a bed or toilet, but we are still configuring the interior. There is a \u2018ready room\u2019 area behind the cockpits which could be used for this purpose, but that might be better served as an area to equip armor and store additional weapons and ammunition.\n\nCan the grav levs be reversed and attach the ship like a magnet to the hulls of other ships.\nWe are still developing the systems needed for ship boarding, but the intent is to have the Prowler as a key boarding ship. This will likely use a variation of what you have described above, but we do not want to promise exact details until the boarding system is finished.\n\nWill the one-way glass be Tevarin ship exclusive, or is there a chance we can see this as a modular option for other ships as well?\nWe are treating the \u2018one way\u2019 cockpit as exclusive to Tevarin ships for the time being; for now, we are going to consider it part of the ship hull rather than an individual component (meaning the ship was designed in specific ways in order to use it.) That doesn\u2019t mean the Prowler will be the only ship that uses this tech, though\u2026 we\u2019d love to further develop both their historical and present-day ship designs!\n\nDoes the Prowler have any docking capabilities?\nIf you mean ship-to-ship docking, no. That kind of boarding approach is not in line with Tevarin practice, which much preferred their airshielded Deployment Portals and elite training to optimize their effectiveness. Installing a physical docking hatch compatible with human standards of the time was not deemed a good use of the ship\u2019s mass or internal volume budget. As per their philosophy, Esperia decided not to alter or diminish their Prowler\u2019s experience and design choices by compromising other features in order to install a contemporary docking hatch.\n\nIs there any more detail you can go into about the \u201cPhalanx Shield?\u201d\nIt takes the current shield allocation gameplay to the extreme to make sure all your baby chickens make it safely to the dance floor. Well, in all seriousness, let us revisit the description of the Phalanx Shield in the post: \u201cA point defense shield that provides a very strong but limited protective face, the Phalanx Shield was one of the reasons that the Prowler became such a significant defensive force when flown in a squad with shields deployed and its wide variety of defensive countermeasures at the ready.\u201d We have already indicated that maximizing your shield effectiveness for larger ships could be a dedicated job for a crewman. And some of you have also noticed in the lore that the Tevarin Phalanx shield has been depicted as being quite effective even against the UPE\u2019s technologically superior weapons technology of the time, so it\u2019s quite powerful if you use it well; but therein lies the rub \u2013 if you\u2019re not managing it, you\u2019re not using it well. We are still working on shield management systems in general, but that\u2019s the goal \u2013 the Tevarin style Phalanx Shield is intended to be on the high end of rewarding player skill in shield management, but be even more skill-reliant than \u2018normal\u2019 shields.\n\nThis is more of a physics question. With the Prowler being able to sneak up on large ships to deploy EVA troops, are there plans to allow crew members who exit a ship to retain their velocity? With the current unrealistic system of slowing down to a standstill after jumping into a friction-less vacuum, I feel it\u2019ll be near impossible to board unless the captain of the ship is AFK.\nWe spoke with John Pritchett who said the EVA friction is a bug. We do plan to address this bug at some point. Of course, even if you retain velocity upon exiting a ship, that by itself doesn\u2019t necessarily make boarding another ship at speed easy, either. We\u2019re as interested as you are in seeing just how good you can get at it \u2013 and under what conditions.\n\nDoes the UEE use any of the Tevarin themed ships officially?\nThe UEE\u2019s dropship needs are met by the various options provided by standard military contracts with Anvil, Aegis and other suppliers of related equipment. That\u2019s not to say that the Prowler is not utilized for training purposes and special ops, but currently they are not used on a massive scale."},"links_count":3,"comment_count":81,"created_at":"2016-11-26T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"9 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-08 00:35:30","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15613,"next_id":15615}}