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==History==
 
==History==
The '''SLS ''Pioneer''''' was an ''[[Avatar (WarShip class)|Avatar]]''-class [[WarShip]] in service with the [[Star League Defense Force]] during the era of the [[Star League]]. At some point during her history the ''Pioneer'' underwent an extensive refit and modification process that filled almost half of her sixty thousand tons of cargo space with specialized astronomic sensors, labs and crew quarters to turn the ship into a highly specialized space exploration vessel. The ''Pioneer'' was then assigned to the [[Star League Expeditionary Brigade]] until the research and exploration program conducted by the SLEB was shut down after the death of [[First Lord]] [[Simon Cameron]].<ref name="ER:2750p55">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 55: "Star League Expeditionary Brigade (The Seekers)"</ref>
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The '''SLS ''Pioneer''''' was an ''[[Avatar (WarShip)|Avatar]]''-class [[WarShip]] in service with the [[Star League Defense Force]] during the era of the [[Star League]]. At some point during her history the ''Pioneer'' underwent an extensive refit and modification process that filled almost half of her sixty thousand tonnes of cargo space with specialised astronomic sensors, labs and crew quarters to turn the ship into a highly specialised space exploration vessel. The ''Pioneer'' was then assigned to the [[Star League Expeditionary Brigade]] until the research and exploration programme conducted by the SLEB was shut down after the death of [[First Lord]] [[Simon Cameron]].<ref name="ER:2750p55">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 55, "Star League Expeditionary Brigade (The Seekers)"</ref>
 
 
While suffering heavy damage, the ''Pioneer'' would survive the collapse of the Star League in the wake of the [[Amaris Civil War]] but would not join the [[Exodus Fleet]], with survivors of the SLEB taking control of the ship to escape the maelstrom of the [[First Succession War]]. By [[2819]] the ''Pioneer'' had reached the [[Paran]] system when its [[KF drive]] failed, its crew eventually joining with the Paranese and forming the [[Paran Free System]] in [[2835]]. Even as it began to deteriorate due to lack of parts and the technical decline of the [[Succession Wars era]], the ''Pioneer'' would be the backbone of the PFS defensive forces, the mere sight of the WarShip generally scaring off any attempt at large-scale invasion or raiding against Paran.<ref name=ISP3IE-39>''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', p. 39: "Coreward Legacies - States of Survival: Chainelane Isles - Paran"</ref>
 
 
 
But by [[2860]], the ''Pioneer'' was on its last legs, its weapons were either empty or nonfunctional and its [[Interplanetary Drive - Combat JumpShips|transit drive]] was failing. By [[2875]] the PFS set the virtually dead Pioneer adrift in the outer system, ostensibly claiming it was to be called upon only when needed. By the era of the [[Word of Blake]] [[Jihad]] and the arrival [[Clan Diamond Shark]] in Paran, nobody alive knew the location of the ''Pioneer'' and the Sharks survey efforts in the system had no luck in locating the wreck either.<ref name=ISP3IE-39/>
 
 
 
==Notes==
 
The first printing of ''[[Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3]]'' incorrectly referred to the ''Pioneer'' as being a ''[[Vigilant]]''-class corvette; this was confirmed to be an error via the [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,25122.msg566132.html#msg566132 Ask the Writers] forum of the official website, where the author confirmed that the correct class for the ''Pioneer'' was the ''Avatar''-class heavy cruiser<ref>[http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,25122.0.html Ask the Writers question dated 06 Dec 2012 - "SLS Pioneer class"]</ref> as previously recorded in ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''.<ref name="ER:2750p55"/>
 
 
 
{{Quote|''Avatar''. Don't know where I got ''Vigilant'' from...|[http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,25122.0.html GhostBear, Assistant Line Developer, 06 Dec 2012]}}
 
  
 
==References==
 
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3]]''
 
 
 
 
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