Ce'lepina/Rhylanor (0610-B434456-81. Soon after landing, a local starport employee comments on the Shivva class patrol frigate in orbit above. Its gun muzzles are sealed and the ship is on a diplomatic mission carrying a Zhodani representative to Rhylanor. The locals here still hold memories of the False War and wish the ship on its way real soon.
The answer came a hundred years later, in the aftermath of a fringe skirmish of the False War (1082 to 1084). Naval patrol ships reconning the Treece system (Lanth subsector) found, and destroyed, a Shivva class patrol frigate (Zhodani, obviously) in the process of refuelling.
The most likely Zhodani vessel to be encountered is the Shivva class patrol frigate, either singly or in pairs.
Shivva Class Patrol Frigates:
Ubiquitous Zhodani Navy design most frequently encountered of the types deployed on and beyond the Consulate frontier districts.
The class is deployed on various independent picket, communications, and patrol duties, often well beyond Zhodani borders. The crew is known to include a Psionic Adept, who in addition to normal navigation duties is believed to augment the range and strength of a special communications system, which may explain the posting- Adepts are usually only assigned to capital classes of vessel.
Sample names (-va = light, thus Shivva = moonlight): Alekrva, Brnava, Doruva, Jadsva, Jirtodva, Loyhva, Mielrva, Shivva, Uturva.
FP-43676 Shivva FP-67424 F2-030000-50003-1 MCr493.87 600 tons
batteries bearing 3 1 1 TL=13
batteries 3 1 1 Crew=18 (incl 10 pilots)
Cargo=24.15. Fuel=264. EP=24. Agility=2. One 50-ton fuel launch. Ten 8-ton ftrs.
FM-43676.1 -.I0 Fighters FM-0106D21-000000-00003-0 MCr15.324 8 tons
One missile battery. Cargo=O. Fuel=1.04. EP=1.04. Agility=6. TL=13. Crew=l.
TY-43676.11 Shuttle TY-0202201-030000-20002-0 MCr13.52 50 tons
one battery each of laser, missile, and sandcasters TL=13. Crew=2.
Passengers=4. Cargo=5.5. Fuel=33. EP=l. Agility=O.