So, it's no secret that I play Star Citizen. Yes.
Recently though, I went back and took a look at the Aurora starter class of ships, mostly looking at the LN version.

For such a cheap ship, I can pretty easily solo HRT (high risk threat) bounties which just feels... Amazing.

But- having 2 S1 and 2 S2 guns won't get it too far in the game. But I like this weird boat after these tests.
That brought me to thinking "what if there is an Aurora 2?" (not mark 2, but rather a whole new ship).

Keeping as close to the Aurora silouette as possible along with some design notes from the RSI Scorpius and Zeus Mk2 made me think of this;
A powered up Aurora for fighter diehards who love flying around with a tiny ship, but still having a quantum drive and enough agility to make this an highly annoying mosquito.
Another thought was that the Aurora 2 would be a light attack ship for recent citizens joining the navy who want to stay with a familiar hull rather than directly hopping into a Gladius or Hornet.

Dunno what gun sizes those would be, because 4 S2 would place it next to the Mustang Delta which is not super impressive- maybe maybe it would have that. 4 S3 guns would make it more dangerous than the Gladius which isn't quit the point.
And with 6 S1 missiles, this little ship could strike some stress to even the most hardened pilots.

But all uparmoring and reinforcing the hull brought some downsides along it; the interior was scrapped and the cargo capacity for the ship was reduced to 2 SCU (which you may see rendered here at the back!).

All in all, this was a very fun thought project that PicoCAD helped me to bring to life!
CIG releasing the Drake Golem really made me think that starters should absolutely be interesting in-game, even later when you can afford "better" ships!