I JUST GOT A WHIM OF THE THREAD I STARTED and i didnt think it woulda gone this far. but YEA, the FL guys always import ships and such, also with MICROSOFT BEGINING TO SUE THE 3RD PARTY WEBHOSTERS WHO MAKE MODS, this stealing of ships is blaphosmy to the fullest of the words meaning. When we convert ships to FS2 or wherever the modder is responcible to state where he/ she got the MESH from, this guy from STAR FYRE studios did not. in my opinion, its not something to be overly upset with, but it would have made more sense and shown more decency from this person to atleast acknowledge his "influence" from Freespace.
when some guy a while back made a terran cruiser in FS2, it looked so RHIENLANDISH that right off the back as soon as he was cited for it, said "my influences were from the rheinland design". being as how we as a community are trying our best to make a legend return to livilyhood really should cite this guy simply because (although with the source code being debut and we cant persay scream on him for converting the ship) we invested much of our days and teenagerhood to a genre and game that means

to us as gamers and artists, as well as the developers who made the original models in the first place. it is an insult to claim that fighter as his own and to take credit for it as if someone would not notice (which is commonly done online).
i personally love FL to death as much as FS2, but the stealing and such of ideas and ideals and such is of the upmost disrespect to Volition and us.
BTW to those who state that the ship just happens to look just like a manticore, for the record, its almost a 97% carbon copy of her. compare both photos and you will see that its an entire rip job of the Manticore. god forbid if it was one of Venoms OTT ships or Darks masterpieces, and they didnt get credit or acknoledgement that they are from the still EXISITING FS universe, i promise you everyone would see eye to eye on this as it is theft of creativity and plagerism at its worse.