Is that a Cutlass?
— Nope!
Is that a Valkyrie?
— Nope!
So what’s it supposed to be then?
— Well, kind of both… and a lot more! It’s a Grey’s Market production: the Shiv.
Have you ever wondered what actually happens to all the scrap the hard-working salvagers fish out of orbit?
A good part of it ends up with the folks at Grey’s Market. And there, things get put together that don’t seem to belong together. Whatever doesn’t fit is made to fit with a hammer and a saw:
- The chassis of a Cutlass
- Thrusters from the Valkyrie
- The engine of a Freelancer
- And to top it all off, a Hurricane quad turret with four S3 guns from the Hornet
All of it is perfectly tuned to squeeze the very last spark of performance out of the components. A dream!
And it really shows: very good acceleration and maneuverability for its size, and 32 SCU of cargo space. That’s paired with the turret’s high firepower and two additional size 4 ballistic guns. This heavy zombie will get you out of many a tight spot.
There’s just one thing I unfortunately can’t turn a blind eye to: the quality of the interior.
Guys… seriously? Loose cables hang from the ceiling, the ladder to the bunk bed is broken. Everything here seems unfinished and not thought through. They just took whatever was lying around, with no regard for loss of quality.
And what’s this supposed to be?
A bucket in a former turret shaft? That’s supposed to be the toilet?
The motto here seems to have been that every credit saved is worth the lost comfort.
Maybe it’s my pride as a ship mechanic that forces me to condemn conditions like these as unacceptable. But I admit there’s probably a bit of envy in there too. Because Grey has at least managed what many of us only dream of: he sells his own creations and is proud of them.
I’ll have to think about that in peace first…
