And that argument falls flat on it's face, given the revelation that the Aquarius would be one of the ships getting buffed in the near? future.
The Waverider and Aerowing are nothing more than glorified shuttles, much like the Captain's Yacht aboard the Galaxy and Sovereign classes. Certainly not something you would take into battle (if they even have weapons, which I find doubtful).
It's now almost 5PM over in California. A full office day at the start of the week, and not a single dev blog, no official announcement news post, nothing. PR department and CaptainSmirk all still asleep after being "jetlagged" getting back from Vegas? Cryptic/PWE's PR department really screwed the pooch on this one. Bad enough that S9.5 wasn't hyped up (then again, it was a rather lackluster half-season, so well deserved), but for an Expansion Pack? With ZERO official announcements at their site, Facebook, Twitter? Nothing.
As much as I disliked BranFlakes as Community Manager, he at least knew how to do his job. The same cannot be said for CaptainSmirk.