Talk:M3-A Interceptor Expansion Pack/@comment-98.212.201.178-20151016030943

This ship's inclusion, particularly with the pilots chosen, is almost certainly intended as a gift to fans of Star Wars: Galaxies and may even indicate the presence of at least one SWG pilot (or ex-pilot, as the game is defunct) on the development team.

The Scyk was always the starter ship for neutral pilots, later the starter ship for all pilots after the addition of Tansarii Point Station as a tutorial area. It appears almost nowhere else in the EU. Both named pilots in XWMG are the NPCs from the station that issued the missions for the piloting tutorial, which culminated in a battle for the station, making any player who had completed those missions a "Tansarii Point Veteran." Even the "Cartel Spacer" could be interpreted as a player who has not yet completed the tutorial, as durring that plot the player is working for the Car'das smuggling cartel. The Heavy Scyk title references the "endgame viable" version of the ship, a feature which was extended to each faction's starter ship in SWG but which is absent from the Headhunter and TIE/ln in XWMG. Even the Mangler Cannon upgrade card shares the name of a common type of ship component found in the game.

As someone with fond memories of piratical SWG days, you can bet I'm buying four of these.