Fuck yes!
After taking a frustration break, I tore down the base sections of the
Hercules-class tug and rebuilt her from the ground up.
Finally got her into orbit and she's magnificent. I have no idea if she'll have enough ponies to move a big rock, but she can connect and drag no less than twelve other craft with her. Not that I ever expect to hook that many ships on, but the clusters of docking ports were more for symmetry than anything.
She's a dedicated spacecraft pushing 24 nuke engines, fuel enough that she should be able to make anywhere in the system, and the extreme docking set does make her somewhat modular for adding other dedicated craft, such as A/M sweepers or orbital refinery craft. Hell, the Herky could easily be the base stage of a space station, especially given that it's got an additional personnel capacity with two four-man hitchhiker cans.
She'll never see the surface of a planet again, at least not on purpose.