The amount of service hours placed on the Mercury really totaled up quickly and planning seems to show now we can support improving our offering by increasing the capacity of our ship and taking on a great volume of passengers! Growth!
Having decided this step, I took our ship into Pennsylvania and managed to find a suitable 'next budget friendly step' of a ship at Interspace's Valley Forge Flight School - a larger 1000 cargo unit ship called the 'Gull'! (There was a slight issue with docking but aside from the weird look after disembarking from the bay crew, no fines were issued...)
I decommissioned the ol' Camara to afford this 'new' vessel and re-assigned the =IT=Mercury to its transponder.
Our first run: A Cabin full of passengers out to the capital of Rheinland - Planet New Berlin!
The ship performed quite well - aside from a couple of tuning items that probably only would be a bother or even noticed by me - and our clients arrived safe and sound in Rheinland in short order!
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