Oh thank god, I hated the old shire, far too bulky and its comparative size to the shetland (which in itself, looks like it can haul 10k cargo) made it feel really inadequate, constantly getting CD'd, bumped to hell and getting traped in every other lane, I lost my mind flying it.
the lacking on the cargo pods is fine, its actually a hell of a lot more scaled to the cargo space which it has, it has to be purely for looks, as none of the transports cargo holds make sense really, zoner transport/pirate train/whale and all other such examples of too big for the ship size, or most of the 5k transports (except kusari and atrain) being too large for their cargo hold. Really not bothered about the cargo pods being too small.
And remember a key point, Bretonian ships are NOT heavy, they're mediumish but most importantly curved and deceptive in their looks, the Gunboat is the exception (though still very curvy) but I'm strong of the opinion that the bret gunboat wasnt really intended to be a gunboat of similiar use to most other gunboats in disco (its more of a liberty cruiser for bretonia, with the huge gun).
