USE Marogan

USE Marogan
 * Beagle class - Purpose built Explorer ship
 * Keel laid :4012 OTT
 * Delivered: 4014 OTT
 * Christened: Marogan, after famous Botnaar scientist

The USE (United Stars Explorer ) Marogan was the last Beagle class ship put in service and is among the last 300 still in service. The United Stars Explorer fleet used re purposed Union Fleet units (and often still does) prior to the Beagle class. The arguments for a uniform design for the fleet did not hold true for the science corps or the Explorer Fleet. There was no urgency in logistics and, standard explorers were not expected to get involved in any hostile action.

But the ease of repair and maintenance was still a factor and was realized in the Beagle class, with science and exploration at the core of its design.

The USE Marogan received several upgrades and refits over the many centuries, the last one in 5021 OTT. She is now attached to the GAWOLI project of the Science Corps and the Explorer fleet.[1]

The crews of the USE Marogan made contact with no less than 25 sentinent species, including the Wargarump, the Aspargo and the Hotzies.

She is also the first ship ever to have a Bellebee captain. [2] as of 5032 (OTT)

The USE Marogan is unarmed, but has a wide range of Paralysators and Tech-stop projectors.

The ship is also equipped with several extendable Gravo anchors and strong Enviro shields. The anchors allow the Marogan to become a stable research platform even in the most extreme gas planet storms and the shields are Sun environment level type.

[1] Gas World Life - project - first proposed by Dr. Hewinclod (Bellebees) at the Extreme World life conference at Humongous in 4998 (OTT) and subsequently included in the Science project list proposed via the Citizens for Science program of the SC. The Assembly approved a substantial budget for it in 4999 (OTT).

The core idea of the project is to revisit Jovian worlds and similar extreme worlds, including suns and failed suns to probe for life. While Explorers are now always include Jovians, Gas planets,Failed Suns etc. It has not always been done. GAWOLI first and foremost revisits surveyed systems and probes the previously ignored extreme worlds

[2] The Bellebee captain resides in a special Gas Bubble environment in a converted cargo deck and is represented on the bridge (and everywhere else) via Avatar presence. (An arrangement accepted by the Science Corps (but not the Fleet)