How about the Nonstromo (Alien) as TS?

[rustybucket]

Just add a dockable (1 m6/TS slot) mineral refinery, and you are ready to head off to the nearest Asteroid belt. The refinery will have its own TL-like stats but would be scripted to perform two special tasks.

1) The refinery has its own manufacturing processes
2) The refinery is scripted to have zero acceleration until another ship has docked.

I am surprised that we haven't developed a mod with these ships yet.

has anyone worked on these?

Rusty

ps. for the sake of simplification, let's just agree to leave out the alien for now.

[rustybucket]

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The Nostromo commercial tug

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The nostromo with it's refinery in tow

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