Riding the wave of their success with the rebuild on the venerable Holmes model, the R&D department found itself flush with the credits they needed for making a new niode matrix driven Medium Class mecha that had little input from the Marketing Division on Telluryde VII.
Now in the owner's manual, you will find about 5,000 pages that are devoted to telling you about the Type 6 A.I. that is cocooned within a high density niode matrix with detailed target analysis interface that increases the pilot's ability to target vulnerable kill shot solutions at a higher rate of success. 5,000 pages. Long story short, this mech shoots lasers very fast and very well.
By level 30, you have eight equipment slots, nine weapon slots, and the standard smattering of laser damage and x2 damage percentiles, but they also found room to give it some trample shielding so it can sit in those back ranks with some damage survivability. The Buccaneer doesn't stop there though. It contains to gain extras all the way to level 156 which make this a very scary Medium class mech for not a lot of investment.
It will be very interesting to see how this highly competitive mech will be utilized in future Specialty Formations with it's ability to outshoot anything in the 35-55 ton range arguably. The Fides being the one exception to this statement, but the Buccaneer's ability to snipe a crit shot makes it a very dangerous foe.
So with all of these positive things to be said for the Buccaneer, I believe it will be safe to say that the boys down in R&D are going to be sitting pretty well off for some time to come. Just head on down to the port next time your in town, look up Johnny Winkershot in Bay11 on mid level 5 and tell him you read this plug in Galaxy Gathering. This will get you a chance to go into the back room and check a couple of these babies out on the live range before purchase.
Until next time, this is Kenneth Hicks telling you that if you don't read up before you drop your credits, come over here and I got a special deal for you.
