>I was pleasantly surprised when reading in This Old Dorm about
>the upgrade plans for the shuttle formerly belonging to the former
>Director Tremayne of the Psi Corps. Not that it was being upgraded,
>because we already knew that that was going to happen, but that it was
>being upgraded to Kennebec class.
>
>I'm not sure what a Kennebec-class ship is in the UF universe, and I'm
>sure the name was chosen because of the river in Maine, but it holds
>special meaning to me because the USS Kennebec (AO-36) was the ship my
>grandfather served on during WWII.

Heh - nifty. Serendipity strikes again. :)

It is, in fact, named after the Kennebec River, largely because the Kennebec upgrade was developed as part of the alternate "build Truss a hot sleeper ship" project at the IPO Fleet Yards, and Truss is from the region of Maine where the Kennebec is the most significant river. (A Kennebec-class runabout is a Danube-class runabout upgraded for better capabilities in the same footprint - handbuilt modification vs. mass production - in much the same way that the Substance class is an upgraded Lambda.)

If I ever have a runabout in character, it'll most likely be named Aroostook.

--G.
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