UES Shymkent

The UES Shymkent was a Taurus Ark-class colony ship, built and launched by United Earth from Europa in 2097 as part of the Taurus Program, a colony operation to the distant 34Tauri(2020)-system. The Shymkent arrived in the 2140s and began colonization of the terraformed core worlds of the White Sun or Bai Hu-system.

Trivia
The Shymkent was named for the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province.