Bonadventure Type: Surveilance Corvette In Class: ? Mass: 100,000 Sail Integrity: 3 Thrust: 4/6 Fuel: 3000 tons Structural Integrity: 60 Armor: 96 tons of standard armor (77, 12+6 aft, 13+6 all others) Docking Collars: 0 Fighters: 2 Small Craft: 2 Crew: 20 Lifeboats: 4 Escape Pods: 0 Grav Decks: 1 60 meter Cargo: 1,000 Bay 1: Fighters (2) 1 door Bay 2: Cargo (1,000) 1 door Bay 3: Small Craft (2) 1 door Weapons: Fore Left / Fore Right 1 NL 35 1 battery of 3 Large lasers (Designers note: Based on a single vague reference in TR2750. Actually a whole lot less than it could have been. The design is underweight by about seven thousand tons, but I think the end result fits the undergunned surveilance corvette description nicely, and it compares well with its contemporaries) Overview One of the smallest dedicated combat warships ever deployed by the Terran Hegemony, the Bonadventure was a dedicated sensor platform. It played a vital role as a picket ship and surveilance vessel in dangerous parts of the inner sphere and near periphery, and also opperated alongside Vigilant class corvettes in front line naval groups. The little ship, however, was poorly armed when compared to other corvettes, or even many pirate vessels, and had a very poor chance for survival when caught alone. This is one of the reasons that it was eventually retired in favor of the Vincent class corvette in 2432. Many bonadventures ended up in the hands of the great houses and periphery states (the taurians used the design as the basis for their successful Defiant class corvette), while others were scrapped. However there were aproximately one hundred bonadventures still in mothballs at hegemony storage facilities by the time of the fall of the star league. Though most of these ships were ultimately seized by one house or another for use during the succession wars, as many as two dozen are still unacounted for. Though these ships might have been lost in the chaos of the Amaris Coup or the Succession wars, nobody knows for certain. This makes the Bonadventure and other pre-Star League era warships a tantalizing prospect for lostech hunters, prompting legends of hidden fleets of warships just waiting to be found. Any such cache fleet would be the find of a lifetime, and if it were large enough, would radically alter the balance of power in the inner sphere more dramatically than every cache of star league battlemechs combined.