Dauntless wrote:maybe it is just me but i doubt that skimmers can get much beyond orbit.
while i'm guessing, I think it reasonable to say that its job is to basically fly around the battlefield gathering info and occasionally shooting things.
after all it is called a recon skimmer. it isn't a fighter or a shuttle, assault or otherwise.
clearly orbit or low orbit is within its abilities but deep space? I don't think so.
shuttles likely have much greater range, and in other RFC universes assault shuttles are heavily armed and armoured, making them a much better choice for either a strike at the OBS or if the OBS ignores it going to asteroid belt or another planet to start fed industry out of OBS' reach.
I would suspect that they do fine in deep space. But you wouldn't want them too far away from a mother ship or supporting platform.
Don
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