| Interstellar Vehicle | |
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| Name | Interstellar Vehicle |
| Origin | Earth |
| Designer | RDA |
| Manufacturer | Consortium of Aerospace Contractors |
| Length | 1,646 m |
| Width | 330 m |
| Height | 218.5 m |
| Crew | 2 on-duty crew |
| Weapons | None |
| Max Speed | 130,200 mi/s (209,537 km/s) |
| Equipment | 2 Valkyries |
| Propulsion System | 2 Matter-Antimatter engines, 1 Photon Sail, 1 Fusion Planetary Manuevering Engine |
| Cargo | 200 Passengers, Avatars, Blueprints, Micro-miniaturized processors and cicruitry components, Medicine, Unobtanium (On the return to Earth) |
The Interstellar Vehicle (also known as an ISV) is one of humanity's interstellar spaceships that is part of a looping supply chain for the transport of supplies, equipment, personnel, refined ore, and data between planet Earth and the distant moon Pandora. It never lands on Pandora's surface, since it is designed to operate in deep space. If an ISV ever attempted atmospheric entry, it would break apart and burn up because of atmospheric friction and high gravitational forces. Instead, it sends smaller shuttle-like vessels, called Valkyries, to land on the moon's surface. The Venture Star arrives at Pandora after more than five Earth years in transit; the hundred-plus humans on board -- apart from the four man flight crew -- are in cryosleep for the entirety of the trip.
The ISV Venture Star is just one of ten spaceships that the RDA utilizes for interstellar trade between Earth and Pandora. Interstellar starships such as the ISV Venture Star require unobtanium in their manufacture, due to unobtanium's role in providing containment for antimatter-matter reactions.
The Fleet
- ISV
Altair Borealis— Destroyed
- ISV Roanoke
- ISV Venture Star
- ISV Daedelus (formerly)
- ISC Spirit of Neveda
- ISV Nova Borealis
- ISV Prometheus
- ISV Icarus
- ISV Phoenix
- ISV Gungnir
- ISV Osiris
