Is there a official or good fan source on:

The average age of ships in service?

Average reliability of older ships?

I want to give my group a older (paid off, in a small merchant fleet, reliable but not perfect) Free Trader. Just trying to get a sense of what the "depreciated cost" of an older ship would be plus what possibly might break as they start travelling the Spinward Main.

Even working on a "business plan" that will give them a main emphasis of trading, but allow for side journeys of self-directed adventure (mayhem) or acting as a safari ship, etc.

Thanks!

F.P. Kiesche III

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