#ship classes

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These are huge cargo ships that only take cargo – but need a crew complement to keep any and all cargo safe. These are rated to take anything and everything legal. These are hardy ships and seen in every shipping lane from Xinti to Yashida – especially in the inner rim. They’re known to take heavy beatings by solar storms. You cannot sway the Captains to do anything as they are trained by the Xinti Confederation to resist and are paid very well to get their cargo where it needs to go. These are manned by over 100 people, with a complement of a fifty strong security company with heavy armaments so pirates don’t try to board. They have two huge Kifier Drives to sustain them over huge hops between two or three systems. 

Some mothballed Promethean Class ships have been retrofitted to take passengers due to the need for cheaper running passenger ships. However, these are run by the Williams-Goodman Corporation, a human company that’s only interested in profit. They do however have a small security force that lives aboard their ships. 

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Medium size ships, run by 50-75 people. They make short hops between neighbouring systems. Their Kifier Drives are usually newer and less likely to go wrong, especially with more people to keep the drive in good working order and usually can afford the parts to fix the ship when needed. The cargo that these ships haul is mostly luxury items and some minor hazardous cargo. These are also a little more comfortable than the Voyager Class ships and so often are a little more expensive than those to be on. However, captains of these ships are usually able to be swayed for more clandestine activities at a heavy price. 

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Also known as Scrappers or Scrap Class.

These are usually run by pirates or are intergenerational ships that operate on the outskirts of systems so they aren’t caught by IFR. They are old ships that run on Nuclear Fusion Drives (NFD’s or Fusion Drives). Those drives were outlawed due to their instability. However these ships are incredibly hardy, they were made to last out the heat death of the universe, if kept in good repair and you have a good engineer on board. Due to their instability, parts are actually easy to find in reported debris fields or on the border planets of most systems. These ships only need a very small crew to be able to run, 1-5 people. They can hop between systems with relative ease due to the NPD. If Scrappers are run properly and not by pirates, they run illicit cargo usually to keep running; drugs, people, stolen items. They’ll take what they can to keep going. They’re a step above pirates. 

[German - see below]

Big, bigger, the biggest! Here is a length comparison of the different ship classes of "TransOcean: The Shipping Company".

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Längenvergleich der Schiffsklassen