Orion Ore Discoverers

[austere swift]

Welcome to the Orion Fan Club, where ore is discovered, pulverized, refined, and sold!

@open furnace @hallow shoal

[scarlet fern]

first

[open furnace]

Let's go ORION 🎉

[hallow shoal]

Nice!

I’m not really sure how I will crew an Orion but I plan to get one in November and figure the rest out before it launches.

[open furnace]

The in-game jumpsuits are okay, but i hope we can get some more industrial looking outfits fit for a mining crew

[hallow shoal]

I usually rock the bright yellow Aril armor when I am mining. Seems to fit the job at hand. Some variety would be nice though you are correct.

[open furnace]

The only whitebox draft images we have show a lot of slanted geometry

It adds a lot of character, but I wonder if they'll stick to it

A few more, including the Bridge view

Absolute favorite part of the ship though, is this catwalk...
Having the saddle bags rotating around as you move from one end to the other, and the views...

[haughty crown]

Ima wondering how big the Orion type Asteroids will be.
There are some monster's out in the verse.
It should be able to produce a large amount of refined ores.

[raven pagoda]

how do you even get one?

[haughty crown]

Should be able to buy one at the IAE ship sale in November afaik

[raven pagoda]

any idea how much it will cost? and if its a specific day in november?

[raven pagoda]

or is it like the whole november month

[oak spear]

Gonna use it for my base building team

[raven pagoda]

i wonder when the sale begins this year

[open furnace]

Big brain fleet right there. Awesome

[oak spear]

My fleet is based on stuff we wanna do

[open furnace]

You mean you don't mindlessly throw money at the wall?

[haughty crown]

$575 currently.
Dont know exact dates.
Usually get 2 days for each Manufacturer and then 2 days at the end of the week where all available.

[raven pagoda]

do you know if Concept ships like that will be able to be used ingame? Or will you just get a loaner ship like all the others?

[haughty crown]

One day they will be flyable. Things move pretty slow for Star Citizen, concept ships to flyable seems even slower 🤣
I think the loaner is a Mole, for the Orion.

[raven pagoda]

ah, so technically its no point buying concept ships?

[haughty crown]

Wow, loaners are a
Prospector
Mole
Hammerhead
Vanguard

[raven pagoda]

Isn't the Idris-M playable ingame? If you buy the pack which costs like 15k?

[haughty crown]

Usually on release, a Concept ship will be at its cheapest and might have LTI as well.
Unfortunately it can take years before they become flyable ingame.
Especially the Big ships.
Looking at the loaners for the Orion, its a diverse range of ships, a player would get a bit of use out of them.

Afaik, no idris ingame for players who own one.
Maybe if Squadron 42 gets released, one day, we see the Capital ships, like the Idris, ingame/flyable.

[raven pagoda]

hm, okay, i thought like, those people who bought the praetorian pack and got all the unreleased ships would be able to fly them, a little sad they pay so much and wont be able to use the unreleased ships

[haughty crown]

They will eventually, once the ships are flyable and i game.

Yeah, must be frustrating though, paid a lot of money and only got a picture

[raven pagoda]

thanks for telling me thoo, i was thinking of buying cuz i thought i would be able to use the concept ships, noow i know i will not lol

[haughty crown]

What some do is buy a upgrade from a Mole to a Orion.
That locks in the price.
In the Orions case, it would probably be worthwhile upgrading a Mole or buying the Orion as a standalone ship, players would get 4 handy ships, while they wait.
Usually a Ship will go up in price when it becomes flyable ingame.

[raven pagoda]

so basically, buy a mole in the pledge, then upgrade it into a orion? Is that even possible since its a In-Concept ship?

do you still get the same loaner ships though? by upgrading?

[oak spear]

Yes

[hallow shoal]

I have a mole to hull c upgrade so I will probably use that then upgrade it to an Orion.

[raven pagoda]

how do you upgrade it to an Orion? It doesnt sow up on the upgrade list

[hallow shoal]

I’ll wait until IAE in November

[raven pagoda]

ah like that

do you know if you will still recieve the loaners for the Orion? even tho you upgraded it?

[hallow shoal]

Yup you get loaners for upgraded ships.

[honest walrus]

It's $575 plus tax and will be available to pledge on Rsi day during the IAE, until the end of thebevent

[honest walrus]

Nope it's just the prospector and Mole, not sure where you got the hammerhead and vanguard from

[haughty crown]

Soz, Yep you are correct, somehow I have included the Perseus Loaners as well. The Perseus is the next ship under the Orion

[open furnace]

https://youtu.be/cJ5crDaTGYY?si=-wb4X8YvTUI35FT2&t=805

Last words we got about the Orion (I believe).

[wintry river]

im getting an orion next iae sale. likely going to put my hull c to an orion and get the hull series pack

[open furnace]

I want a dead-space like accident to occur on an Orion in deep space

Not mine, but one

[placid fiber]

we getting that new minning ship as laon?

[oak spear]

I think

[wintry river]

i lied, i got it on this one LOL

[opal kraken]

Hahaha nice

[placid fiber]

👍

[opal kraken]

How many folks here have also pledged for an Arrastra?

[wintry river]

i havent yet. i might once i get a better comparison on how it works compared to the mole

[opal kraken]

seems to require a much larger crew, no?

[open furnace]

After seeing what happened with the Reclaimer's claw... I doubt we'll be grinding up rocks with the Orion's first iteration

[bronze heart]

reclaimer claw got fucked because maelstrom isnt implemented, by the time orion gets released hopefully maelstrom is in so we skip the T0

[little valley]

wait wait wait wait, so you're telling me there's a refinery on that ship??

[delicate void]

Yes

[little valley]

Mega nutting right now

[maiden lodge]

As much as I'd love to see the Orion, its never coming

[little valley]

thats a huge bummer

aww man

[maiden lodge]

Let me rephrase - The Orion is very likely to come, but it wont be coming any time soon. Could be 5 years from all we know.

Other ships like the Idris, Pioneer, Polaris, Javelin, Banu Merchantman and the Kraken will most likely arrive before it.

Luckily the Idris and the Polaris are almost finished, Banu Merchantman is probably the second closest to being finished, then the Javelin, Pioneer, and maybe Kraken

Anything past the first three is just speculation though.

[little valley]

Well it's not as bad as i thought

[drifting jay]

Nobody but CIG knows when its coming. So I'd stop speculating for no reason lol

[opal kraken]

Hey, I love reading some entertaining speculation lol
Gimme the gossip!

[drifting jay]

😂

[grave pelican]

[serene sphinx]

Well if we are to see Apollo with possible drone tech soon, do we think that might kick off some Orion discussions?

[drifting jay]

Orion wont happen sadly till they rework larger scale mining

[sonic lantern]

What size mining laser is going to be on the Orion? If it’s S10 then they really gonna need to fill some holes. The arrastra probably going to be S3 maybe even S4 mining laser, need couple of ships to fill in the gap

[serene sphinx]

Theres honestly no way to know the sizes rn because its so far out. I mean we already have the Golem > Prospector > Mole and then eventually Arrastra which will be sub-cap size and then the Orion.

So I think it will be a pretty solid line up it all will work out and theyll find a way to balance it.

[charred kayak]

it's gonna be probably biggest laser

specific size doesn't matter imo it'll just be the biggest

unless cig pulls an even bigger mining capital outta their butt

[sonic lantern]

Next size up would probably be “mining” the suns