The shuttle can house one person permanently, but can can carry three comfortably. Ten people could crowd inside it.

It doesn't have FTL capablity so it has to be carried by a larger vessel. It has wings and jets engines allowing it to run in an atmosphere, Lightfirean flared ion drives propel it in space. Usually they are fission powered, but some more expensive models are fusion powered - antimatter is a bit much for such small craft. It's armed with one plasma array, some models have missile launchers - normally military corvettes are used for attack though, shuttle armament is purely for protection.