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Latest revision as of 21:28, 11 January 2016

Medium Deep Space Freighter image from Planets Nu

Comments

One opinion: The Medium Deep Space Freighter is a single-engine craft that should rarely be built. Recommended early in the game if starting population is very limited.

Alternative opinion: The MDSF is a very useful ship for the following reasons:

1. Cheap to build, few minerals and only one engine. Build with a Hyper Drive 8 if you have to.

2. 200 cargo is a useful amount of cargo in the early and mid-game.

3. If built with a tech 1 engine, it can be towed by a LDSF or it can be used by a capital ship as an external cargo pod to get more productive miles out of the capital ship. This is particularly effective for the Pirates.

4. Cheap enough to help fill up to the ship limit and used in manner of previous point until later recycling.

5. It has a long range. It has 200 cargo room and 250 fuel tank. A LDSF has 1200 cargo room and 600 fuel tank. To have the same ratio of cargo to fuel, the LDSF would have to have a 1500 fuel capacity.

Built by

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Hull specs

Name Tech Beams T/F En MC Dur Tri Mol Mass Cargo Fuel Crew Abilities Adv
Medium Deep Space Freighter 3 0 0/0 1 65 4 4 6 60 200 250 6 none 0


Notes

With a Transwarp Drive, the Medium Freighter can total 1750ly (about 0.14 kT/ly) of non-stop movement with a full tank but no cargo, and 670ly (about 0.37 kT/ly) when completely full

Addons

The Medium Deep Space Freighter does not currently have any addon-exclusive abilities.