RDW-409 Supply Cruiser

HS: 8
HP: 40
MR/ADF: 3/3
Engines: 4 type-B Atomic
Crew: 50 (10 flying crew, 10 maintenance crew, 10 refuel/overhaul crew, 10 repair crew, 5 techs, and 5 re-armers)
Weapons: 2 laser batteries, 4 chainguns (1d10, FF)
Defenses: reflective hull, masking screen, 3 ICMs
Repairs: up to 60 HP of any ship, can rearm up to 8 torpedoes, 36 rocket salvoes, and 16 assault rockets. In peacetime, also able to refuel and overhaul engines. Has a hangar for small craft (10 fighters, 5 bombers, 2 assault scouts, or one light corvette) and can either repair or deploy from said hangar.

The RDW-409 Supply Cruiser is a medium-sized ship that carries enough crew to quickly patch up a damaged ship. These ships are lightly armored and lightly armed, allowing them to zip around the battlefield to dock with a disabled ship. They can repair any type of ship, and possess a hangar that can repair, refuel, and re-arm anything corvette-sized or smaller from the hangar. These ships hang on the fringes of a fleet, darting in to repair heavily damaged ships. As such, they contain a massive array of videocom screens not normally seen on ships of their size. They rival battleships in terms of their comm equipment, as they have a number of screens equal to the fleet they serve. Because of their large amount of repair crew, these ships almost never have problems. Because of the dangerous nature of their work, each tech can carry a small plasti-seal patch (just in case a hole is blown in the side of the ship, these patches can expand and preserve the integrity of the hull, but no HP are gained from it). When all the repair and re-arming supplies on the cruiser are exhausted, it will usually retreat to behind the ships, watching on the comm screens and determining which ship to defend with its small arsenal of lasers and chainguns. This is one of the few vessels that can repair a warship in space. A Supply Cruiser is also commonly used in a salvage business. If one of the ships found is too much to carry for a Jump Tug, a Supply Cruiser can quickly use its resources to repair the ship enough to fly back to a nearby port or to the repair center. It can also be used as a rescue vessel, making it popular with the Star Guard, a group devoted to answering distress calls in space.