I think Rats & Cats gives the Iouo as overdue for return from the next spiral arm. Could be a nice thing to drop into the mix in Banners, or perhaps some state in the area decides to send out ships to try and find the vessel.
Of course, if the ship gets hit by a hobbyist virus, perhaps it goes on an 'ongoing mission of exploration'.
Eamon
>From: Antony Farrell <>
>Another thought occurred to me. When were the Solomani Rimward exploration vessels supposed to return? I picture
>them arriving years after the virus devastation. These ships would have been loaded with the then state of the art
>Solomani technology but still vulnerable to infection. The ship or ships become infected but the Sols are able to fight it off
>– they were also huge research vessels with again much redundancy and possibly some alien tech which helps fend off
>the virus. (Did they run into something similar in the far reaches, Cylons;))