The Trader Class does exactly what is expected of them - they trade, make business that benefits both parties involved, and sometimes are deployed in diplomatic solutions. Rumors state that the Trader Class of the Dimensional Collective are the ones behind the Rift-technology that they employ heavily, and are the most efficient users of said technology. They are easily identified with yellow ships that have orange-and-green paint.
General Faction Lore
Assault Class
Explorer Class
Mods Used:
Bubbet's Placeholder
Drones ++ / Automation ++ (Designs coming soon)
Abh 5.4 (?) (very little, however)
AI Whereabouts:
Wing-Pandora - All assets recalled.
Cobra-Composite - Fortress Alpha, Logistics
Portal-Hexagon - Fortress Alpha, Secondary Trader
Golden-Lampshade - Gateway One Starbase, Repair foreman-core.
Legendary-Wisp - TTE Space, Recovering after assault on Edar Sventari
Known Ships:
Micro-Freighter
When the load is very minimal, these simple freighter droneships carry the cargo. It can be anything from a small package of supplies to a group of 4 or 6 individuals
Small Freighter:
A small Freighter for delivering a decent amount of supplies between factions.
Medium Freighter:
A decent-sized freighter a little larger than the Small Freighter, but carries a lot more cargo and supplies.
Transport ship
These ships can carry an amazing total of 600 passengers. They are mostly for DC Simulated-Program AI androids but due to the~Trader-Class's skill in logistics and spatial manipulation, these berths can bit refitted to house any sort of biological or cybernetic/hybrid entity as well.
Light Scout:
A very basic drone meant mainly for scouting an area and coming back. Doubles as a point defense platform for Trader fleets.
Heavy Scout:
Very lightly armed, is sent on patrol routes that could potentially harbor threats to any convoy for scouting purposes.
Large Scout:
Shielded for Additional protection and equipped with weapons meant for suppressing fire.
Weaver-type Subcore
Seems to have a massive energy network based on multiple different power sources. It also seems to be adept at manipulating the space around it, and perhaps other ships of the Collective.
Trader Light Coreship
Trader Cores are dedicated to diplomacy and logistics, and so these Light Cores are like mobile trading outposts. They move not with engines, but rather by manipulating forces around the ship to propel it in a direction - Trader-Class Core-AI are adept at bending reality.
Light Defender:
More of a nuisance than a bona-fide Fighter drone, the Light Defender employs Electrobolts to disable systems so other, more capable ships can pacify any offending craft.
Heavy Defender:
One of the more capable ships meant for destruction of offending pirate/raider craft. Equipped with a bubble shield to prevent damage to the ships it is protecting.
Patrol Frigate
When very important assets are being carried by Freighters, these droneships are called in. They are not quite as deadly as most other battleships, having mostly "Vanilla" technology, but they have a better ammo supply system than most cruisers.