Freight Liners (spaceship)

Freight liner spaceships are large merchant vessels that deliver goods between major ports, like the behemoth container ships of early TL7 onward. The term "liner" comes from the scheduled "lines" or paths that bulk vessels follow. They typically only hold cargo, not passengers, just like cargo ships. 
== Size and Appearance ==
Freight liners tend to be huge and costly, and are typically in the background of sci-fi adventures. Freighters act like mobile warehouses, with secrets hidden in their holds. A wrecked freight liner may contain all manner of mysterious goodies--as well as deadly spacefaring threats...
"Hard sci-fi" freight liners tend to have proportionally tiny crews, with extensive robotic systems for loading and unloading. The fantastical freighters of space fantasy are often more nautical in design, with hundreds of spacers aboard a single vessel who load and unload cargo manually. 
== Examples ==
* Titan-class Heavy Space-Transport Vehicle (TL10)
* Prosperity-Class Heavy Star Freighter (TL10^) 
* Ricardo-Class LASH Freight Carrier (TL10^) 
* Betelgeuse-Class Super Freighter (TL11^) 
* Regulus-Class Frontier Transport (TL11^)
== See Also ==
*Spaceship Encyclopedia
*For the more compact, fringe-delivering freighters, see tramp freighters!
== References ==
*Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports, p.7-8
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