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- Reinforced Metal Plating
- Fusion Reactors
- Bio-Optic Wiring
- Energy Cells
- Food Ration
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Civilian ships working for stations
There are 3 main types of cargo Trade ships:
- Carries individual types of cargo, such as Bulk (examples available in all ship sizes).
- Carries either Container and Energy, or Bulk and Liquid (Large ships only; segregated volumes).
- Carries any cargo (XL ships only) with either shared/universal storage (e.g. Lyranea) or segregated volumes (e.g. Scaldis).
Advantages of smaller ships are speed and lower cost, but coming with the disadvantages of weaker defences (especially medium ships) and cargo type restriction (although since multiple ships are typically needed by complete stations, this is of debatable significance). Advantages of larger ships typically include much sturdier defences, greater storage capacity and the option of ships that can carry any cargo. Downsides of large, slow ships for stations include longer delivery runs and the potential for all their cargo space not being needed for a given run.
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