This needle-shaped vessel is a small but feature-laden design.

Living quarters are on a single deck, and consist of five small cabins and a galley. There are airlocks on the rear and port sides of the ship. The Dart uses a streamlined hull (SM +8) that masses 1,000 tons and is about 100 meter long.

The crew uses the staterooms with transiting imperial personnel or imperial couriers being able to use the bunkrooms.

This fast courier is the fastest commonly available interstellar ship. It is used on the core mail routes. It is replacing Hermes-class mailships on more and more routes.

The smaller data storage space can hold more than 200 times the data of a Hermes class mail ship, but to download/upload that amount to most imperial data systems would take 56 days… and even at maximum speed of the best systems it still takes close to 3 days, so in many cases they only travel with partial data loads.

Front Hull System

• [1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor.
• [2] Enhanced Array (comm/sensor 10).
• [3] High bandwidth communicator(comm 8)
• [4] Habitat (three cabins, two bunkrooms, one-bed automed sickbay).
• [5!] Secondary Battery (two turrets with 30 MJ lasers; 40 tons cargo).
• [6] Cargo Holds (50 tons capacity each).
• [core] Control Room (C9 computers, comm/sensor 8, four control stations).

Central Hull System

• [1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor.
• [2-3] Cargo Hold (50 tons capacity).
• [4-6!] Stardrive Engines (FTL 1 each).
• [core] Mail storage: 1 mega computer+ storage: 81 yotta bytes total. (81*10^24 bytes)

Rear Hull System

• [1] Advanced Metallic Laminate Armor.
• [2!] Light Force Screen.
• [3!] Super Reactionless Drive (10G acceleration).
• [4-5] Fusion Reactors (two Power Points each).
• [6] Engine Room (one workspace).

The ship has artificial gravity and gravitic compensators.

The normal complement consists of four bridge crew (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, comm officer/gunner) and one engine room technician.