Yilneh Transport Ship
This is a small passenger vessel designed to travel between the moons. Stats are probably close to that of a Danube Class Runabout (pg235) in that it's a larger shuttlecraft size thing with space for a small crew, but it's mainly intended to ferry about a dozen people on a short trip. They also don't have to make space for any kind of a warp engine usually since that ain't happening.
They are somewhat modular since you never know what you're going to need space for, so they have the ability to shift compartments depending on passenger or cargo or type of cargo. Minimal armaments, enough to blast up a smaller asteroid if needed but nothing that could attack something else.
The shape of the ship itself looks somewhat like the head of a Yilneh. A nice oblong shape, fairly evenly shaped, with four standard viewports all around. Their sensors are less advanced so they rely on visuals more than a Starfleet ship would. They have decent "glass" technology that makes for good windows for these things. Transparent aluminum is something they mastered pretty quickly.
The main advantage this ship has is that it is incredibly maneuverable, and it is well adapted to the challenges of flying in the T'Vienor Expanse. The shield technology is solid and their engines are solid and not prone to overloads or anything like that.
These ships are larger than the ones that would be used by the standard family to travel around the planet, but it's still entirely possible for a more well to do family to have their own. It's an upper middle class feature.
Something about the hull enhances telepathy, giving it greater range, so they use that rather than communications tech in space.
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