>Has it been established what kind of ship the Phoenix Queen is?

I have vague memories of an episode of Lion Force Voltron in which Castle Arus turned out to have been a starship the whole time. The temptation was very great to do that with the Lucky 38, rather in the style of that one UK sci-fi show whose name I can't remember* where the ship is the British Telecom Tower, but fortunately, better taste prevailed.

Beyond that, I hadn't really thought about it until you asked, since the ship hasn't actually needed to appear on screen yet. However, given the mission criteria, I would expect that she's a small, fast warship, possibly one not constructed so as to be obvious about that last part, and given Azula's tastes, presumably quite well-appointed on the inside. Captain Inazuma and her crew do some courier work from time to time, but they are not a freight haulage company, so cargo space would not be very important. Their bread and butter is exploration and stellar cartography; before they took the WDF job for the Corporate War, they were under contract to the Royal Salusian Astrographic Society. To be any good for that sort of work, a ship has to be comfortable enough for her crew not to kill each other six months into a sweep of the Kresge sector, fast enough not to take six years to sweep the Kresge sector, and well-armed enough to handle the sorts of pirates and raiders one tends to find while sweeping the Kresge sector.

With all that in mind, I am presently leaning toward the X-70B Phantom, which is the standard ride of Imperial Agent player characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic. This is basically a corvette pretending it's a pleasure barge, which seem just about perfect for the mission as described. :)

--G.
* The Web indicates that it is called Hyperdrive.
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