Courier Starships

While some interstellar yachts count as "executive couriers", these courier ships are purpose-built for extreme speed. When a villain's super-weapon destroys the communications network, or a giant space amoeba blocks out the FTL satellites, it's up to the Courier class to round up help from across the cosmos.
Courier ships tend to small, and carry high-priority assets, such as top-secret documents, rare artifacts, dignitaries and ambassadors, and so on. In settings with FTL (fast-than-light) travel that lack FTL radio, couriers may be the lifeline of the planetary network, the figurative pony express of the new frontier of space. In hard sci-fi settings without FTL travel, courier ships may simply be the fastest way to bring a key item or specialist across the solar system.
== In-Book Examples ==
* Hermes-Class Interplanetary Courier (TL10)
* Dart-class Interstellar Speedster (TL11^)
== References ==
* Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports
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