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==Background== <i>Argo</i> is the product of her era. Boeing Interstellar produced just two of these beauties back in 2762. They were intended to follow behind the first wave of exploratory missions, supporting multiple surveyor, terraformer, and colonizer teams on deep survey missions. She lacks the armor or maneuverability to function in battle, and she's vastly outclassed in size and firepower by even the smallest WarShips. In summary, she's a peacetime ship meant for peacetime exploration duties, and planned with a focus on long-term orbital deployment. It was her noncombat design that ultimately led to her abandonment, but preserved her for the Restoration when the time came. With 57 000 tons of cargo space, she is essentially a mobile space station, in a sense, providing supply and temporary habitation for teams on dangerous missions in unsettled space. As such, she's far too large to land on a planet, her docking collar system allows for smaller DropShips like the ''Leopard'' to come along for the ride. In an earlier era, she might have seen widespread usage. But the fall of the Star League and the near constant state of war we've endured since then has rendered the <i>Argo</i> little more than a forgotten experimental footnote in the history of DropShip production. In her own way, the <i>Argo</i> represents the back seat that science and exploration have taken in pursuit of military goals.
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