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El Dorado

Personal ship of the MacDougall Brothers, the El Dorado is certainly a powerful ship. While lacking the specialized technology features in the Outlaw Star, it is nonetheless both fast and powerful. In addition to a plentiful missile compliment, it is equipped with four grappler arms, giving it a decided advantage in combat with vessels sporting the normal two grappler arms. When the situation requires, it may also be loaded out with the destructively powerful Halcyon Missile, which packs enough punch to shatter even large asteroids. Also of note, there appears to be at least two El Dorado's. When Harry ambushed the Outlaw Star, two identical vessels alternately fired missilespreads, tricking the crew of the Outlaw Star into believing that the El Dorado had unprecedented maneuverability. It is later revealed that Ron's El Dorado is in fact named the Shangri-La, leaving us to wonder what the actual class of the ship is. Then, there is the matter of Gene's memory of a ship bearing a striking resemblence to the El Dorado during the pirate attack that killed his father....