I find it difficult to believe that a FS1-era civilian freighter, which was notoriously weak to begin with, could benefit in any way from reintroduction into a campaign. And what's all this talk about Q-ships... if you want to mount a major beam weapon (on the order you're trying to indicate Woolie) you'd need to configure the entire internal structure around the weapon, and you can't just randomly do that to something unless it was designed specifically for that use. A more likely scenario would be to strap the weapon housing on outside the hull of a smaller ship, with its own reactor, but that's not what you're talking about here (not to mention that a Cruiser, which every faction in the FS universe seems to have a limitless supply of, would be much more appropriate). I've heard more talk of mounting a USilv on some little ship than is healthy, especially since the ship designed to use that weapon has a 6 km external housing for the mount. Stick to some sense of practicality, and you won't get these kinds of comments.
