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!STUFT **(Ship Taken Up From Trade)** A merchant ship employed in support of the fleet. Usually taken into the fleet in times of emergency to enhance the logistic support capability. Usually this is a long standing arrangment for supplementing the fleet in time of war, and the merchant ship takes aboard a naval officer to command, and sometimes a few other naval personnel to help run the ship. In some cases, governments take on emergency powers and can commandeer merchant ships for military use - though this is naturally unpopular with the shipping corporations.