Albatross-Class Bulk Freighter

The Albatross-class bulk freighter was designed to be able to handle the heavy bulk cargo tied to the mining and terraforming industries - heavy machinery to the Rim, ore and natural resources to the Core - without the large expenses accrued by massive bulk freighters with large crew complements. Using advanced mass compensation technology, the Albatross can haul twenty times the cargo of other ships in its class, though this is restricted to high-density cargoes, as volume requirements are still a concern.

While cutting-edge when it was developed, the Albatross class is an aging design, now approaching its fifth decade, and defects in the ship's design have begun to show themselves. Of particular note is a flaw in the mass compensators that made the Albatross so successful: the mass compensation system's fuse trays regularly burn out and must be replaced regularly. Luckily, the popularity of the Albatross means that the fuses are readily available across the 'Verse, and they're cheap to boot.