Ships get lost, become derelict or sail away like a cosmic Flying Dutchman.<br /><br />[quote=Zeb's Guide]<br />125-10PF Hundreds of exploration vessels are lost during this time.<br /><br />32-26PF Thirty two exploration vessels are lost trying to map the Lesser Morass. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />The above statements say hundreds which must be somewhere in the area of 200 ships and then the second statement specifically accounts for 32 of them in a particular area. This is a lot of ship over the course of a century and this is just exploration craft.<br /><br />One has to assume that piracy, misjumps, sathar activity etc must account for even more ships that are not exploration craft.<br /><br />I would expect that exploration ships are prepared to handle tough situations and thus the number of non exploration ships that are lost must be at least twice again as many as the exploration ships so that on the low end we must assume 400 non exploration craft for a low total of 600. This is excluding lost military ships lost during war which might carry a designation of "presumed lost with all hands" However during peace time lost military ships will be counted in the total. Also the numbers quoted in Zebs is only for a part of the total timeline and we should assume that from the perspective of year 111 FY that the total number of lost ships must be closer to 1000. <br /><br />Now we should also consider the Yazirian Exodus and their entrance to the Frontier after 3 of the core four had established themselves. Prior to their Exodus they must have sent out explorers and lost some. Lets call it 6-10 and blame that range of numbers on spotty records.<br /><br />900 years ago when the Sathar discovered Volturnus and the eorna who had a space faring civilization with some sort of extensive space based infrastructure and industry (that is the only explanation of the eorna egg ship). I like to presume that eorna explorers stumbled onto the sathar and that led to the fateful Day of Doom. so there could have been any number of lost eorna ships out there of about 900-1000 years of age but the number would likely be 8-16.<br /><br />Klikk lost artifacts from 700 years ago- clearly they were a space faring civilization with advanced technology that the Frontier races have not duplicated (the massive war tank). Impossible to speculate on numbers of lost or derelict klikk ships that could be stumbled onto without further hard data on the klikk but it could be any number as well as other military depots or dumped cargos out there to be found.<br /><br />Certainly the sathar must have lost ships from time to time- Mutiny on the Eleanor Mores module provide evidence of one such occurrence. like with the klikks its impossible to speculate on numbers.<br /><br />Saurians are a space faring race that have faired poorly against the sathar and were forced to go "BSG" to save their population. Likely they lost some ships before contact with the sathar and many more since contact with sathar. Speculation puts it at about 60-100 but the vast majority of them would have been destroyed due to sathar activity its just that their ultimate fate is uncertain.<br /><br />It is reported that the zethra found, repaired and operated some ship belonging to some other race and this allowed a group of them to depart from their planet. It is unknown who built this ship but clearly they were able to recover and operate a lost derelict ship.<br /><br />This does not factor in the Rim but since the ifshnits are explorers par excellance my guess is that their numbers are lower then the UPF's though they have probably lost more ships due to war with the sathar as their first contact with the UPF happened at the time of what the UPF called the First Sathar War and they had already fought with the worms many times prior.<br /><br />I think all told we can guess-timate a number of approximately 2000 lost ships out there waiting to be found.
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