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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Oh sure, other ships can carry it. With some rigging that ventral open cargo area on the Excelsior could handle at least a few for example. What I'm thinking of is that the Steamrunner is a born carrier class or medium transport. Of course in peace time (that is, 99% of the time) it would act and a mid to long range transport carrying supplies and personnel, even shuttles and runabouts, acting as a roll-on/roll-off ferry for smaller vessels that are too slow for deep space travel. Of course the real advantage of a transport this size is that it's small enough to be nimble and as such a viable combat craft, unlike say a large bulk freighter or container tug. While at the same time it's bigger than say a Deneva (my version anyway) or a Ju'day-Class so it can pack for of an offensive punch rather than depend on speed and defences to run and escape, which also makes it useful as a mothership to the hoppers when orbital fire support is needed, or an LZ needs clearing. Also because most of it is empty space, in war time it becomes very versatile and easy to convert to other uses. Dropships with orbital weapons support, med-evac, munitions, prisoner transport, fast supply runners or just a plain old troop transport. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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