Express

Argon Express Class TP Personnel Transport Buy: Federation Associate @ 665,772 Cr Speed (Min-Max) 60 - 150 m/s Acceleration (Min-Max) 3 - 9 m/s2 Steering (Min-Max) 2.6 - 6.6 RPM Hull Strength 20,000 Max. Shield (Total) 3 x 25 MJ (75 MJ) Shield Reactor 600 MW Cargo Class (Min-Max) 750 - 750 @ L Laser Capacitor 450 MJ Laser Recharge 4 MW                                                                                                          Rear x 1

Argon Express Advanced Class TP Personnel Transport Speed (Min-Max) 68 - 170 m/s Acceleration (Min-Max) 4 - 11 m/s2 Steering (Min-Max) 2.8 - 6.9 RPM Hull Strength 20,000 Max. Shield (Total) 4 x 25 MJ (100 MJ) Shield Reactor 660 MW Cargo Class (Min-Max) 950 - 950 @ L Laser Capacitor 450 MJ Laser Recharge 4 MW                                                                                                          Rear x 1

Argon Express Hauler Class TP Personnel Transport Speed (Min-Max) 66 - 165 m/s Acceleration (Min-Max) 4 - 10 m/s2 Steering (Min-Max) 2.8 - 6.9 RPM Hull Strength 20,000 Max. Shield (Total) 3 x 25 MJ (75 MJ) Shield Reactor 600 MW Cargo Class (Min-Max) 862 - 862 @ L Laser Capacitor 450 MJ Laser Recharge 4 MW                                                                                                          Rear x 1

Overview

Small but quick, the Express is a good choice for delivering marines to a target as well as conducting taxi missions.

Background

Encyclopedia Entry

The purpose of the Express is to act as a passenger transporter for civilians wanting to travel between systems and stations. This was always a problem as passengers traveled in converted Lifter-class freighters. But when the Lifter was retired from service, it was found the Mercury could not replace the job of transporting people. The Express was constructed by a group of civilians at Argon prime out of old planetary transport hulls to transport its workers from one station to another in one go. The Argon Shipyard saw the ship and became interested in its design, which was altered slightly to act as the newest passenger transport ship.

Variants

Express

The standard against which the variants are compared.

Express Advanced

The Advanced Express improves on almost every aspect of the standard model and sacrifices nothing, but must be captured. It is also available as a corporation reward.

Express Hauler

The Hauler variant, unlike most other Hauler variants, is faster than the standard Express.

Physical Characteristics

The Express is very similar in appearance to the Mercury, but with spherical containers replacing several of the cargo boxes. It is long and narrow.

Combat

The Express has scarcely more combat ability than a standard freighter, and should not be allowed to stray into a warzone unless the user is exceedingly careful.

Equipment

Built-In Equipment

• Cargo Lifesupport System

Missiles

Mosquito Missile Dragonfly Missile Firefly Missile

Aurora Missile Rapier Missile Firelance Missile

Availability

The Advanced Express cannot be purchased at shipyards and must be captured. It is also available as a reward for reaching rank 4 with Terracorp. The Advanced Express may be disguised as an Argon Weapons Transporter.

Availability

Variant	Argon Prime	Cloudbase South East	Omicron Lyrae	Light of Heart	Legend's Home	Argon Sector M148
Express	x	x	x	x	x	x
Express Hauler		x			x

Suggested Roles

Marine storage or Transport Passenger missions.

See Also

Ships by Class

TP Ships

Argon	Express (Hauler) (Advanced) • Phantom
ATF	none
Boron	Manta (Hauler) • Angel
Goner	none
Kha'ak	none
OTAS	none
Paranid	Hermes (Hauler)
Pirate	none
Split	Iguana (Vanguard) • Ocelot
Teladi	Toucan (Hauler) (Prototype) • Geochen
Terran	Scabbard • Mani
Xenon	none
Yaki	none