Ossian (S)

Originally intended as a fast courier ship, the Ossian is mainly used these days as an escort on diplomatic missions of very low priority, or on scouting missions when the success of the task at hand may depend on manoeuvrability and speed. The tactical capabilities of the Ossian are severely limited by its for all intents and purposes nonexistent offensive weaponry. This fighter is sometimes called the tin can or, more poignantly, the death trap; the latter refers to the fact that during the last half decade more pilots have died in this ship alone than in all other similarly sized crafts of all factions put together. Most of those deaths occurred outside of combat.