What about Barges?

[Festus McBoyle]

So, here I am in my Barge, not able to take trade lanes. OK, I'll slowly go from Manchester to Newcastle. Docked the JG, and set forth to thrust and fly open space to Redcarr... Found myself in a gnat's bum asteroid field. I now cannot get through to Leeds as Jump Gates are blocked by asteroids.

If the barge was designed to travel the dark corners of space, then how the hell can it do so with all the asteroid fields etc smothering the Jump Holes and Jump Gates. Cortez is impossible to travel through from Manchester to California.

Was this really planned to be like this?

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