Rutan

Facts

• Civilian ship class
• Short-range freighter (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Construction halted by late 2130s (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Specifications
  • Crew complement: 3-6
  • Maximum load: 100mt
    • Several tons by The Good That Men Do
  • Cruising speed: Warp 1.3
  • Maximum speed: Warp 1.7
    • Notoriously slow by The Good That Men Do, ECS vessels able to do warp 2, cruise at full load at warp 1.5 by 2102 (J-class freighters such as the ECS Horizon)
  • Range: 15 light years (ENT Novel: The Good That Men Do)
• Unlikely to be Earth-built ship; Earth freighters of this era tend towards long-haul freighters with massive loads, not individual merchant vessels
  • (Further, no good reference for a possible meaning of "Rutan")