ICARUS TYPE SCOUT SHIP

Class:Unknown
Type:Deep range scout/survey vessel
Length:80 meters [?]
Mass:28.8 thousand tons
Crew:7
Passage:30 w/ 150 tons of cargo
Fighter:2 surface transports
1 flight recon plane
Power:2 Fusion Reactors
Duration:2 months
Weapon:4 Light Pulse Cannons
Defense:0.6 meter re-enforced hull

The Icarus type vessel is a deep-range surveyor used for scientific exploration and to scout out locations in the deep range territories. Built by the Mitchell-Hyudyne Corporation of Earth, the same manufacture responsible for the Starfury fighter craft and Olympus class Corvette, this vessel has both space and atmospheric flight capability with a large cargo capacity for extended missions and a wide array of support vehicles.

Originally designed for military service during the Earth/Minbari war this class vessel became very popular with military affiliated programs such as Interplanetary Expeditions and other organizations in need of atmospheric capable transports.

IPX Icarus herself was destroyed during an Earthforce/IPX sponsored mission to Z'Ha'Dum. Survivors of the ill-fated expedition were forced to merge with Shadow Battlecrabs or became willing agents of the Shadows.