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Ins bernal q ship mode

The INS Bernal, an obsolete freighter retrofitted with weaponry to serve as a makeshift convoy escort for the Imperial Navy

A Q-ship is a specialist warship disguised to look like an unarmed freighter. Q-Ships are used when hunting pirates, to defend convoys in wartime, and for covert missions in peacetime. They generally are armed with fighter bays, box launchers for Lance Torpedoes, and chemlaser mounts hidden behind detachable hull plates. They can rarely stand up to a major warship, but can usually be counted on to defeat lightly-armed pirate vessels or small commerce-raider task forces of frigates or destroyers.

Miao Mercantile used Avarice-class superfreighters outfitted as Q-Ships as smuggling vessels during the period of the K'Nes Quarantine Zone.

Behind the Scenes[]

Q-Ships were first used by the British in World War One to sucker German submarines into making surface attacks so they could be engaged and destroyed with gunfire.

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