00, carrying capacity over a million, named for
Sovereigns or Rangers. Flagships of Imperial Fleets when such must be
assembled, and the ship-type most commonly used by Rangers. They are
very well armed, used for things like colony setup, deep-space patrol,
large-scale rescue, and similar missions, as well as combat.

Heavy Cruisers (IHCs), equatorial diameter 800 meters, mass 1.75 x 10
to the eighth tons, crew 1800, named for famous sea ships. Flagships
of Sector-level fleets.

Light Cruisers (ILCs), equatorial diameter 700 meters, mass 1.2 x 10 to
the eighth tons, crew 1500, named for stars or given guardian-type
names (e.g., Guardian or Protector).

Heavy Destroyers (IHDs), equatorial diameter 500 meters, crew 1000,
named for military commanders. Massing 4.28 x 10 to the seventh tons,
this is the largest class of ship capable of landing in a near-standard
grav field.

Light Destroyers (ILDs), equatorial diameter 400 meters, crew 750,
named for military commanders.

Armed Scouts (IASs), equatorial diameter 200 meters, crew of 500, named
for scouts or explorers.

Couriers (ICs), length 100 meters, crew 5-50 (some automated to require
only a pilot), named at pilot's option.

(For comparison, the largest U. S. aircraft, the C-5B, is 75.5 meters
long, with a wingspan of 67.9 meters, and maximum mass of 418.5 tons.)

SHIP-COMP: Ship-computer, an artificial intelligence installed on all
Imperial ships of Scout class or higher.

SHIVA, Subsector 6-A:
No. systems: 120 Sector: Scorpio
with 3 inhabited planets: 2 Ruled by:
with 2 inhabited planets: 13
with 1 inhabited planet: 25

SHONNAR:
Sector: 3, Sculptor Year:
Subsector: A, Asgard Day:
System: Bifrost Gravity:
Settled/established: 2153 Axial tilt:
By: Terran mystics Oxygen:
Satellites: % Water:
Ident code prefix: SHO Continents:
Ruled by: Chief Monitor

General: Called Retreat by its inhabitants, this world was rediscovered
by Crown Princess Halona Strider in 2321, while she was looking for a
permanent home base for the Shadow Fleet. The mystics who had settled
it were developing powers she thought might be useful in the future, if
they were left alone to do so. That was precisely what they wanted, as
well, so