This is a courier intended for express delivery of vital mail packets and personnel across interstellar distances.

Hermes class courier is the standard imperial mail ship traveling between most star systems. Even the most remote colonies are usually on the mail network with more than 500 000 imperial star systems and more than 100 000 other served total. On the smaller colony runs they also offer one of the bunk rooms as passenger service(the other bunk room is always reserved for transporting imperial personnel)

It uses an streamlined hull that masses 1,000 tons (SM +8) and is about 50 meters long.

Uploading or downloading the entire data storage takes about 6 hours 20 minutes.

Front Hull System

• [1] Metallic Laminate Armor.
• [2] Habitat (three cabins,two bunkrooms one-bed sickbay).
• [3] Secondary Battery (two 30 MJ laser turrets; 40 tons cargo)
• [4] Enhanced Array (comm/sensor 9).
• [5-6] Cargo Holds (50 tons capacity each).
• [core] Control Room (C8 computers, comm/sensor 7, four control stations).

Central Hull System

• [1] Light Alloy Armor.
• [2-3!] Stardrive Engines (FTL 1 each).
• [4-6,core] Mail storage: 1 mega computer+ storage: 381 zetta bytes total. (381*10^21 bytes)

Rear Hull System

• [1] Light Alloy Armor.
• [2] Cargo Hold (50 tons capacity).
• [3-4!] Hot Reactionless Drive (2G acceleration each).
• [5-6] Fusion Reactors (two Power Points each).
• [core] Engine Room (one workspace).

The normal complement consists of four bridge crew (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, comm officer/gunner) and one engine room technician.