Ship details

The above photo was taken in the ring-plane of Merope 4, Merope System.

STJARNA STIGANDR "Star-Wanderer" (Formerly AGRICOLA)

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As of October, 2016: Name changed to "Stjarna Stigandr", (Star-Wanderer) for her new principal role as a Long-Range Explorer.

Former Namesake:
Georgius Agricola: (24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Scholar and Scientist.
Known as the "Father of Mineralogy", he was born at Glauchau in Saxony. His birth name was Georg Pawer (Bauer in modern German); Agricola is the Latinized version of his name, by which he was known his entire adult life.

Agricola and Bauer both mean "farmer" in their respective languages.
His Magnum Opus is considered to be his book De Re Metallica (1556).

He believed in using the radical (at that time), scientific method of direct observation, instead of speculation and superstition in his pursuit of knowledge, making him an unusually brilliant man for his troubled times.

I thought that the "Father of Minerology" would be an excellent namesake for my (former) mining/exploration/utility ship.