Q: Fusionfire howitzer manufactured by NAMI?

[SiaFu]

How come it's manufactured by NAMI (who deal mostly with kinetics and missiles)? It's not the only thermal weapon by NAMI, but is the only Howitzer. And Makayev is the manufacturer of Mark I, III and V (the other thermo howitzer) and various blast weapons.

Could the reason be so that the Makayev factories don't get to stock it - so there's a greater chance of both Mark V and the Fusionfire spawning in a game?

I've mapped the layout of all vanilla weapons to 80 icons (to be drawn, got just 12 so far) for my StelliFer mod and was thinking of using the same icon for both thermal howitzers. I can't use the Makayev logo if the other is by NAMI so would it change much to switch manufacturers (but leaving the +Specialty tag out)?

P.S. What does the NAMI acronym stand for (I know EI is Earth Industries).

[Aury]

Mark V should be sellable by Makayev, but fusion fire has a good enough chance popping up in other spots, or you can nab the ares clone, which is the hecates cannon; not hard to farm deimoses for it.

[Atarlost]

Intratextually the Fusionfire seems to predate Makayev as an arms dealer, though possibly not as a ship manufacturer.

[SiaFu]

OK, got it. So canon-wise it's best left as a separate icon and some beat-up antiquated design, (like the Class V shield, or Bolide laser blaster should be).

I've tested it and game-wise there's not much negative impact for the player if I label it Makayev instead of NAMI (as it only reduces the chance of Mark V appearing in the Makayev Factory). And the Makayev blast enhancer doesn't work with it anyway.

So I'll keep it separate from Mark V and leave it NAMI. Thanks.

[Aury]

Not relaly battered up, because they still make them. Its just that the design never changed.