The "Shade" is a tremendeous ship and absolutly suitable to finish the whole vanilla storyline - including the Hovis race. But don't forget, that it's quite big compared to the "stock" ships, even the other light fighters like the "Patriot" or the "Dagger".The Hovis race isn't really THAT difficult. There was somebody winning it with a "Swashbuckler" (it not onbly looks like a brick, it flys even worse ), even only with a bit of luck. And ...hmm, kind of a "bypass" is built into CF. Just dare t…