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The Long Watch · Vessel

ISV Daedalus

ISCA Long-range Survey (pre-Exploration-class predecessor) · Commissioned 2177

An ISCA long-range survey vessel of the generation before the Exploration-class — the ship on which Marcus Cole and Hana Whitfield served together before the Resolute, one of the four ships of Marcus's career, closed out in December 2190.

Designation

ISCA Long-range Survey (pre-Exploration-class predecessor)

Service

Commissioned 2177

Complement

22-26

Home port

Norfolk (ISCA Atlantic complex)

Fleet

isca fleet

What the prefix means

ReferenceISV

Series

SeriesThe Long Watch

Books in the series

BookShakedown BookThe Deep Edge BookThe Deep Frontier BookThe Ruins BookFirst Contact

Rest of the registry

VesselISV Endurance VesselISV Resolute VesselISV Resolute II VesselNV Erika Magnusdóttir VesselNV Persistent Error VesselNV Karl Vidar Pedersen VesselNV Dawnward VesselKindred VesselISV Lodestar VesselMV Tallow VesselISV Rampart VesselNV Longsight

Elsewhere in the archive

Drawn from what this entry actually names — not a curated list, so it grows as the record does.

Characters

Hana WhitfieldMarcus Cole

Vessels

ISV Resolute

In the glossary

Exploration-classISCA
T3 The Deep Frontier · 2191–2220 Survey derived

What her era can carry. ⚠ NO KINETIC WEAPONS. Era-scoped and explicit.

Long-range explorers past the charted dark. The absence of weapons is a fixed fact of this era, not an oversight: no Long Watch hull carries them.

Survey. Instruments, sensors and boats. Armament nominal at best.

⚠ A ceiling, not a fit — what a hull of this class could carry in this era, derived from the capability ladder rather than stated for this ship. She may well carry less; she is never shown carrying more. Source: Era tier T3 — derived from the capability ladder for its era; role inferred from class and description.