Federal Gunship: Surprising little Funship.

I must admit to being very pleasantly surprised with this ship. I've seen people flying her where she lumbers around like an elephant with a hangover. So I didn't hold high hopes. However, if you can keep her relatively light (IE not hull tank the living hell out of her), and keep power in her engines (which holds true of any ship, really, their flight characteristics change drastically between 0 and 4 pips in ENG) then she's quite a nice, stable gun platform to use. Another demonstration, too, of how ludicrously useful Cytoscramblers are. Just two of them in the Class 1 slots (which no one really knows what to stick in there, lol) will give you all the shield stripping power you need without having to resort to filling the ship up with distributor hungry lasers, leaving you free to go with hard hitting kinetics. Lastly, the ship has relatively powerful retrothrusters, not dissimilar to the Medium Alliance ships. Making her turn quite a bit better than her figures would suggest. Worth trying out, IMO. She's cheap and packs quite a punch. As good as, say, the Crusader or Challenger? That's hard to say, she's definitely far more stable, and has more firepower as well as an SLF bay. Personally I prefer the FGS to something like the FDL or the Python. That class 7 Distributor is very useful. I'll leave you to make up your own mind. Ship build: https://s.orbis.zone/8sA7