UNS Stranton

Overview
The UNS Stranton was an early colonization ship used by the UNMC to find, and set up colonies on eligible planets. It was a large ship and one of the most used ships in the UNMC fleet at the time, and had already taken part in the establishing of a few colonies.

Roles in colonization
The UNS Stranton had helped tremendously to start human colonies, including major ones such as Valde Suggero which was the first ever colony outside of Sol, as well as Cole, Emerald Sea, Gateway, Paladin, Ingenero, and Maelstrom. In 2168, the Stranton was on a routine trip to an in-progress colony named Pavonis Alpha from Earth, when the ship's I.T. Drive went unexpectedly critical due to currently unknown reasons, and transported the ship light years away in an instant. A small group of UNMC ships attempted to track the energy trail and find the Stranton, and a large pulse of energy lead them 50 light years way from Sol, where the large asteroid that would later become The Raft was discovered. Although the Stranton lead the UNMC to a colony which would eventually become very important to the UNC, the ship itself was never found or heard from again, and all crew of the ship were marked as MIA by official records. Later studies of the Stranton's I.T. energy field and trail lead UNC scientists to believe the ship was transported potentially many thousands of light years away within an extremely short amount of time. Although this event has never been recreated, studies of I.T. Drives continue even to the current day to try and reveal how this anomaly occurred.