Spaceships

The Tugger is a special kind of spaceship for 'towing' other ships into foldspace using its huge engines. It has much higher redundancy than any other ship and can bring with it a million tons into foldspace.

This comes at a price, and the Tugger spends 10x the fuel that it should for a ship its size, so foldspace jumps are expensive.

The Tuggers are often used to tow space stations (which have their own NLS drive) into foldspace, and for that job you typically need several Tuggers which perform a Combined Foldspace Jump (CFJ). This is an awesome way to rapidly deploy 'beachhead' attack stations into the field.

The Tugger has two heavy duty tow cables so it can also physically tow ships into NLS and foldspace if required.

In terms of defenses, the Tugger has none. It has no weapons, no armor plating, no shields and no escape pods.

The Tugger ship is very inexpensive considering its huge size but it's a no-frills ship and pretty standard technology. You get what you pay for, and in the case of the Tuggers you pay for the hyperspace jumps that they make since they use 8 times more fuel than most other ships to achieve their redundancy.

This is the larger of the two main Tugger variants, the Tugger 1000. The Tugger 500 is of the same design but has two engines instead of four.