USS.Pioneer

My friend Shae Walker created this ship from notes I gave him (based on a movie-era design he had originally done) then I gave it this background.

The USS Pioneer, one of about a dozen of the Shackelton Class, designed and built at the end of the Dominion War.  They are a test bed for several technologies, such as vastly improved sensors and a more robust life support system and a secondary set of shields as well as minimal ablative armor.

At 270 meters long, this ship is only about the size of a Constitution Class, but is taller.  The crew numbers 477, a light deep space exploratory ship in the same league as the Intrepid Class.