Cargo Container/Hold style ship

[Enko]

Well, I was thinking about a particular problem awhile ago. I wanted to put RP cargo on my Warships, or ships that generally have the potential to die often, but didnt want to go with all the aggravation of getting my RP cargo back, some of which could be a large trip.

A barge would solve this solution, I could put a ton of RP cargo on it and have enough cargo to go like 20 times over, more than enough. However, the barge isn't necessarily appropriate for this as it's more of a mobile base than just storage.

Im not sure if this has been brought up before, but perhaps we could get something like a go between?

The way I see it is a cargo container or basically a box with thrusters attached with a fair cargo sum of 10,000 - 20,000 cargo held so it could be used as a storage ship for Cargo of all kinds. These could even role-play out as Station storage for factions.

This would go as something that would work for factions that might not necessarily suit having a barge for RP reasons but still benefit from a centralised cargo source for various RP cargos.

I would picture this ship to be:

Slow - Long cruise time with just impulse speed? Or some other restraints to make it impossible to abuse the cargo size with.
Weak - I would give it something like a Transport shield so it could survive NPCs, but a paper thin hull like other cargo containers have, so it would be no match against another player (again goes to make it impossible to use other than it's intended use.)
Restricted? - Im unsure if this should be restricted to factions or Official factions of some nature, I wouldnt put a hefty price tag on it either as you're basically just paying for cargo space.

Any comments/ideas would be appreciated.

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