UES Enrico Fermi

The UES Enrico Fermi 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 Enrico Fermi arrived in the 2140s and began colonization of the terraformed core worlds of the White Sun or Bai Hu-system.

The Enrico Fermi has the distinction of being the last ship to see the UES Wyalong until its disappearance. Launched in a pair, during 2110, a year before arriving at its destination, all contact with the Wyalong ceased. Attempts by the Enrico Fermi failed to gain a response. After eight-hours of no contact, the Wyalong suddenly dropped out of warp, re-positioned on a new trajectory towards unexplored space and jumped back to warp. Only assigned enough fuel to reach its destination, the Enrico Fermi could not pursue without endangering the 600,000 colonists it carried and the Wyalong has never been found.

Trivia
The Enrico Fermi is named after the Italian physicist, known particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics.