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=====Skimmers=====
Skimmers are lightly-armed voidships employed by the League for internal patrol duties and customs enforcement. Whereas their lancer counterparts are equipped with heavy weapons such as fusion and particle beam cannons, the skimmers are mostly limited to most modest yet potent weapons, such as laser emitters and ordinance launchers to fulfill the limited combat roles they might encounter. The skimmers are typically crewed by fresh recruits and newly-minted naval officers before they are reassigned to more prestigious postings on larger voidships. Skimmers operate almost entirely within the colonial and frontier systems of the League, where the presence of larger and more potent military vessels is deemed as either being too expensive or unnecessary for the needs of maintaining law and order in the system. As a rule, skimmers operate in groups of two or
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