Vessel prefixes
ISV — Interstellar Seam Vessel
The standard prefix for an ISCA-FC hull — the institutional deep-frontier fleet. Exploration-class and Meridian-class ships carry it.
Table
Vessel prefixes
Stands for
Interstellar Seam Vessel
Operator
ISCA-FC
Canon status
Confirmed
About the vessel prefixes
A hull's prefix says who flags it, not what it does — the same class of ship can carry different prefixes depending on which body registered it. The institutional prefixes come first, then the civilian conventions of the later era, then the hulls that answer to nobody.