Ship specific missions

[Kushiel's Dart]

So many ships go unused. I had an idea to encourage use of more ships;

Missions which require the use of a specific ship. Something like a spy mission and the station is expecting a hauler to deliver bio waste, but it’s really a data delivery.

Perhaps pilots could “borrow” a ship for a mission.

 

[Clicker]

Hmmm...not bad.
I like the idea of being given the ship you must use, perhaps with no ability to upgrade or engineer and you must finish the mission with that ship.
Perhaps as part of the mission the ship you were in before you take the mission is sent to the destination by the mission giver.

 

[Kushiel's Dart]

Like that scene in Empire Strikes Back when they land on Endor in a stolen ship with old codes and Solo says “fly casual”

 

[Azmuth Divarchchron]

building on this i thought it might be fun to put in 2 or 3 ships that can only be used during a mission and are not part of the publicly avalible ships in the game. something that functions so differently from the ships in the game that it could only ever been implimented as a "mission vessel" like a generic shuttle with no hardpoints to do exterior station maintenance.

kind of like a pre-standardization era vessel that was specificaly designed to get into small areas around the station and are now kept around stations for maintenance.