Panther

The Panther is a highly-maneuverable Battleship.

Description
The Panther is a uniquely-shaped battleship with a high top speed, maneuverability, and spinal firepower. It is comparable in its capabilities to the Sentaliz, but with more turret firepower and less health. The shape of the Panther roughly resembles its namesake. The interior is rather dark, and it contains a pilot seat in front of a large, three-screen display.

Advantages

 * Powerful Spinals.


 * Good at anti-fighter duty.


 * High mobility.
 * Able to solo siege because of Large Cannons and Large Phasers.

Disadvantages

 * Weak against other Battleships and above.


 * Expensive.
 * Low Turret firepower.
 * Low hull and shields for it's class.

Strategy

 * This ship is a great Pirating ship as it can tank low-level Starbases and kill miners even when they are close to their Starbase, while still being able to warp away.
 * Make sure to put your Spinals to use use as they are quite powerful in a battle.
 * Due to its high speed and relatively high general durability, diving is a relatively easy task, however it's not completely immune to damage.
 * It can be used to protect bigger ships from fighters, using its Turrets, or from bigger ships, using it's Spinals.

History

 * .61h1 - Speed reduced, HP slightly increased.


 * .61h1 - Huge nerf in HP, spinal count halved, speed reduced, acceleration reduced, spinal size decreased to "large".


 * .61h1 - HP buff, spinals are now both 3-barrel large, speed increased, some turrets removed.


 * .61h1 - 1 small turret, 10 more speed, -250 shield, 1 more large phaser.

Trivia

 * Received over four major changes in the span of a few hours.
 * Roughly resembles a cat-like creature in the act of running, hence the name "Panther".
 * The Galaxy Panther is a near-replica of the Minmatar Panther-class Black Ops Battleship from EVE Online. See link: https://evepics.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/eppantheralign.jpg
 * This ship used to be VIP.