NODE Fleet

The NODE Fleet was a fleet of interstellar survey spacecraft dedicated to finding a suitable planet for colonization by the United Orcs after its previous homeworld, Orceron, had been destroyed in the Great Cataclysm. The undertaking was known as Project NODE.

Each starship in the fleet was a custom design put together from spare parts of the Home Fleet, the refugee fleet of starships that had managed to escape the Cataclysm. Several starships were taken apart and their drive systems modified to allow for fast scouting runs of candidate systems. The flagship of the fleet was NODE-1, a larger vessel equipped with a more notable science payload. In contrast, the rest of the vessel designs were more focused on speed and sensor equipment.

Erk the Orc, assistant to the King of Orceron, was assigned the commander of the fleet. He oversaw the operations aboard NODE-1.

After launch, the NODE fleet scouted out a large swath of the Orbeus Cluster for suitable planetary bodies. Eventually, NODE-1 discovered the uninhabited ice world Aldaain, and colonization began.

Once the fleet had performed its task, most of the vessels were dismantled and their components reused once more.