Actually, the Everest can haul cargo... it actually gets 50 extra points toward trade or criminal objectives.  It's cargo hold is probably not as big as the one in the Kobras Aquairre... but it's not all THAT small.  It's apparently only big enough for an assault boat squadron, not a fighter squadron, but that can't be THAT much of a difference, can it?<br/><br/>As for getting a ship dedicated to transport?<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">but they might have placed a screen of transports around their station....</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>This sounds promising.  If not, scouting the nebula and defeating the pirates will give us a profit factor, and if we haven't gotten a transport before then, we can get one later.  Or we can convert the Kobras Aquairre back if the Cargo Hold on the Everest isn't sufficient and we can't get a transport.<br/><br/>A dedicated transport sounds like an excellent addition to our fleet, in any case.  Perhaps we can turn the captured Reaver vessel into one after we finally salvage it?<br/><br/>Speaking of which, once we get the Everest equipped with it's Salvage Systems... we should test them out on that ship, don't you think?<br/><br/>As for the food run, with the bonus of the repair station, we could get the Kobias to go get the food, and most likely get back and get refitted for fighters afterword before we have all the orbital platforms on line anyway.  If we need to run cargo after we deal with the pirates, we'll have options, I'm betting.