MV Seiko

The MV Seikō (Japanese: "Success") was a cutter in service with the civilian that was later captured by the Shinsengumi and subsequently used as the organization's flagship.
==Operational History==
Seikō was commissioned in 2464 as a "specimen collector," which was intended to visit UNSC colonies and collect rocks, plants, and animals and bring them to Rutherford for study. For this reason, it was equipped with several relatively small cargo holds intended for storage of low numbers of widely varying objects. This would also limit its usefulness for military service; however, Adventure-class cutters were never intended for UNSC use anyway. For this reason they were largely unarmed; their standard weaponry, solid-state lasers, were intended to destroy asteroids and debris that strayed too close to their hulls.
Seikō successfully completed many missions of great scientific importance but largely seemed boring on paper to readers outside of Rutherford. She was the first vessel to deliver , , and to Rutherford from ; damage to the superstructure caused by the Gúta during transit left Seikō in drydock for the next two years undergoing repairs.
By 2515, the addition of newer, yet slower freighters to the Rutherford fleet meant that the role Seikō played had been supplanted. Seikō was therefore tasked on longer-range missions to the Outer Colonies that would be completed more quickly; the upshot was that Rutherford's researchers would not have to wait for long periods of time to wait for specimens to enact research on.