Editing SI-049 Company Store class Mining Tender

{{InfoboxShip
  |name=SI-049 "Company Store" Class
  |image=|caption=
  |tdes=GTM|type=Commercial#GT{{!}}Mining Tender
  |TL=14
  |size=4,000
  |jump=1
  |g=2
  |hp=40
  |cargo=678.2
  |crew=86
  |hpass=0|lpass=0
  |cost=1315.6,<br />Qty: MCr1052.48 
  |footnote=
}}
SI-049 "Company Store" Class [[Commercial#GT|Mining Tender]] was designed on {{WorldS|Inar|Deneb|1213}} in [[1049]], the [[Sternmetal Horizons]] '''''"Company Store"'' class''' ship serves as home base for 10 [[Bathysphere Class Prospector's Cutter|Bathysphere Class Prospector's Cutters]]. Being unstreamlined, it also carries two [[Bubble Class Fuel Cutter|Bubble Class Fuel Cutters]], which can serve double duty if needed.

The '''SI-049''' is normally used as a mobile mining base within a single system. It only uses its nominal [[Jump Drive|jump]] ability in emergencies, or to change systems (which doesn't happen very often). The shape of the hull and the placement of the cutters allows this ship to operate as a [[tender]] while grounded (on an airless moon, for instance), and Sternmetal has grounded '''SI-049s''' semi-permanently in several systems to serve as long term bases. Like most [[Inari]] designs, the '''SI-049''' is a tail-sitter, with its cutter complement arranged around it like a huge carousel.

While lightly armed, the '''SI-049''' can serve as an [[auxiliaries|auxiliary]] [[fighter carrier]] and mobile system defense base, like the larger [[Bullfrog Class Fighter Tender]]. The standardization of Inari 60-[[ton]] spherical hulls allows the '''SI-049''' to operate [[Wart Class Heavy Fighter|Wart Class Heavy Fighters]] (which have the same hull as the Bathysphere). The '''SI-049''' is capable of long tours of duty in any system where wilderness fueling is possible, due to its ability to carry supplies for many months, and at half the cost of the Bullfrog, is popular with poorer systems needing home defense squadrons. The listed cost and weight does not include the twelve subcraft.


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|S2= External Link: [http://members.aol.com/gypsycomet/ShipsInar.html#SI GypsyComet's Shipyard] 
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