| The Kestrel |
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The Kestrel is a small, sleek, silver shuttle that Solidarity Online assigned to Willhelmina and Riana for use in their duties as couriers for the company. The ship is capable of comfortably accommodating three people but could handle as many as six if the need arose and comfort was not a concern. The ship has very powerful sub-luminal drives and is among one of the fastest intra-system ships in service as of this writing. It looks like a bird of prey, with a hooked nose cone just below the forward view port and dramatically forward swept wings that curve down from the top of the ship’s mid section. The ailerons spread out from the top of the tail section in a fan shape, helping to complete the bird of prey image that netted the vessel its name. The ship has medium armor, able to sustain a moderate amount of damage under fire and continue to function, and it carries only minimal weapon systems. Equipped with one forward firing mass driver, and one belly turret equipped with a particle beam cannon and a small missile launcher, the ship is by no means a combat vessel, although it is more than capable of putting up a fight, its true calling is its ability to out maneuver and out run most other vessels and simply escape from the scene of any potential battles.