Y'Know...
I just saw a thread where people were discussing freighters like the Suliban Cell Ship and the Tuffli.
I was thinking how maybe the best answer to all the T5 Connie requests would be to look at Freighters (and shuttles) for inspiration, as the Connie and NX are presented as weaponized museum replicas.
You know they finally got it so that it would auto select your shuttle when you enter shuttle missions, rather than have a default ship? What if you could do that with ships as well? So you have a sector space ship, a mission ship, and a shuttle.
I know there's been talk of "one sector block to rule them all", having your other ships as pets, and this was just something that hit me as fitting nicely in. It could be that you travel in armadas in sector space.
So... Hear me out:
You have your flagship, your mission ship, and your shuttle.
For the bulk of the game, they're the same ship. But when you hit, say, VA1, you have an option to have a different ship (freighter, lower tier ship) as your flagship. Different ships may have little sector space nuances as sector travel gets re-evaluated.
Your flagship is used for social maps and sector travel and is auto-swapped for missions.
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