Pytheas

The Pytheas was an exploration ship. Ship class unknown. The story of the ship and her crew is featured in

Crew

 * Lt. Comm. Mark Derren, pilot.
 * Teague, flight mechanic.
 * McManus, designated pilot, but 'got some kind of stomach flu'.

Mission
The ship started on 2883-08-01 for a 3-week-mission from Boro, Crion, Caliban System to Viking. Its mission was to overhaul the early warning systems and monitoring for Vanduul activities in the system. The ship was stopped at the jump point to Viking by the 88th Squadron because of outdated authorization protocols.

On 2883-08-12 the ship was intercepted by Vanduul fighters but successfully escaped. Derren's log revealed that the Vanduul were able to determine the range and to circumvent the early warning systems on the UEE-Vanduul border. They were shot down on 2883-08-16, trying to escape to a jump point. The crew were killed before they could report these results. Later, the Vanduul invaded Caliban.

The recordings of the Pytheas survived and were found after a reconnaissance mission forty years later, in 2923.

Trivia
of Massalia was a greek explorer of the 4th century BC. He reached the northwestern borders of the known Hellenic world. Albion (Britain), Thule (possibly Iceland or Norway) and the Baltic. He also documented the existence of drift ice, aurora borealis and the midsummer sun. Phenomena unknown to the hellenic world. A reason why his reports were criticised by some of his contemporaries as ‘fiction'. His voyage reports only survived as fragments.