Caterpillar

The Caterpillar is a free merchant spacecraft designed and manufactured by Daybreak Enterprises on the planet of Iphicus. The design has been part of mass production ever since the resurgence of heavy industries such as asteroid mining and fuel processing of the post-Scream period, and thereby became a staple ship seen in intersystem space trade. However, the production line of the Caterpillar has since the 3130s gone offline, and is a ship model slowly becoming technologically obsolete. It can, however, still be seen as part of high traffic tradelanes and short-range exploration missions, but has become a rarity in high-risk mission due to its bulky size and limited power systems when opposed to newer and more efficient ship models.