ROTFL!

We could start a new whole class of HEC ships: USS Cesso (one of the italian terms 4 toilets), USS Toilet, etc... :p

I'm calling it the "HEC" in game, because I'm too lazy to type either of those out when I'm playing. :p

I'm going to throw the Akira skin on it when I get it. I just wish they would unlock the Mat 6 for it.

you could use the thunderchild skin on it, since it has the Mat 6.

Yup, totally aggree, when I saw the ship class name my first thought was 'Toilet class', it's not just the UK either, Armitage export all over Europe (my toilet here in Denmark is by Armitage, lol) :-P

Personally, I called mine the U.S.S. Andoria. :p

Eh, they were both cyberpunk-genre anime, but that's about the limit of any similarity. Could just as easily say that about Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Bubblegum Crisis... the list is practically endless.

Not saying the ship names might not be anime references, but I doubt the ship name Armitage was chosen due to any vague relationship to the Akira anime. I also doubt the Star Trek show writers were specifically referencing anime with the Akira, which is a very common Japanese name. More likely, they were referncing any number of historical figures.

To be fair, I doubt that the Armitage is a reference to the English village of the same name, though there might be some historical significance to the place that I didn't find.

I heard about that toilet thing lol! any way the ship can use the Akira skin and i bought one to try it out and aptly named it the Havoc. To me the new look is just an akira Re-fitted in the 25th century like the Thunder Child. At the core it is an Akira so i made mine look the part.

Akira was bio-tech/psionic powers. Armitage was cybernetics. They both had a cyberpunk feel to them but were different conceptually.

There is a temptation to fly an Akira named 'Tetsuo' though.... or "Kaneda"...