Explorer Interstellar Ark

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The Explorer is a battleship-sized vessel created by humanity during the early days of their colonisation efforts. Like the Pathfinder Interstellar Raft, the Explorer-class was intended to be used as a flagship of sorts for explorator fleets. However, Explorers are on average larger than Pathfinders and generally have more standard construction, with each vessel possessing sets of the same modules. That said, Explorers usually morphed over their long and storied lifespans, eventually becoming near-unrecognizable to their initial configuration.

Of course, much has changed for Explorers since the war against the Scourge began. Though ancient when compared to modern dreadnoughts, the Explorers are nonetheless valued ships amongst Resistance fleets due to the ease with which they can be repaired. In the first day of fighting during the battle for Earth, the Vega Scrapfleet jumped the crippled Santa Maria back to their staging area and returned her to the frontlines a mere 48 hours later by hot-swapping damaged modules for fresh ones. Though significantly different in terms of appearance, the Santa Maria 's operational status was none the worse for wear.