Admittedly my least favorite starship design, I don't know about anyone else but I feel this ship needs a serious rework. The original canon minelayer is described as medium sized slow Ion drive powered lightly armed and armored warship. Well as a rear line supply ship that may cut it but as a front-line warship sneaking about enemy territory sometimes as forward unit behind enemy-lines this will simply not do. If I were on the crew of a mine-layer I would like my ship to be fast and stealthy with a powerful jump drive for fast get aways if discovered. Nothing is worse then dropping a string of space mines and having a Sathar task force jump into your sector and have make a not so hasty retreat back to the fleet. With the improved speed of a new engine design I would expand the role of the mine layer to include orbital bombardment with "depth" charges.<br /><br />An image of the minelayer from my campaign world. A step in the right direction as a faster medium sized warship but still not the stealthy redux I have in mind.
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