Phoenix

The Phoenix is the titular vessel in The Flight of the Phoenix series, written by Bernard Doove.
She is a privately-owned refitted vessel, formerly a Star Corps vessel, a deep-space exploration type designed for supply of materials and personnel.  She now operates as an independent civilian trader/transport, and is well fitted for this task.  She has a holosuite, and even sports a tractor-beam.
==Crew==
*Captain and ship's owner Martin Yote
*First Officer, Commander Bethany Oakwood, a former Star Fleet officer
A chakat family:
*Burningbright, environmental engineer
*Zelkie Sandblossom, Loadmaster and shuttle pilot
*and Hotfoot, Head Chef
*and their cubs, Candycane, Lemondrop, and Pixiepaws
A family of Amur Tiger morphs from Arkhangelsk:
*Security Chief Anastasiya Tartikova
*and hir wife, Valentina, logistics manager
*plus their 9-year-old (when she joined) daughter, Katarina
A Caitian family:
*Chief Engineer R'Murran and his four wives:
*M'Rarrtikar, as ship's Purser
*M'Anissa'tk, as maintenance technician
*M'Lertiña, as teacher and paramedic
*and M'Resk, filling Passenger Services
*plus their three children, M'Keera, Ner'ritn, and Kannekin
*and (as of chapter 10) M'Keera's husband, R'Kassaran
A pair of foxtaurs:
*Ceres, a Starwalker Stellar Foxtaur, filling the role of astrogator and E.V.A. expert
*and hir mate, Danson, a regular black foxtaur, working in hydroponics
A pair of Faleshkarti representatives, both 12 years old when they joined:
*Loander, a comptech
*and Presaith, a starship systems engineer, hired as Engineer 2nd
Other crewpersons include:
*Chief Pilot Heywood Baxter (a human) and his mate, Menalippe Baxter (a ferret morph and former slave/companion) from the LNAW planet Celeste, both killed during the Hesperia incident (see chapter 6)
*Risha de Mar, a four-armed cougar morph, as ship's quartermaster and handyman (no pun intended)
*Penelope Windsor (a.k.a. "Penny Lane"), a mouse morph stowaway, and ship's Entertainment and Morale Officer
*Shintaro, a herm kitsune (two-tailed fox morph) samurai, serving as Security 2nd (joined in chapter 5)
*Madeline Cottenfield, a quadriplegic rabbit morph, who uses a brain-computer interface to tie into the ship's computers and holosuite (joined at the beginning of chapter 6, before the Hesperia disaster)
*Master Pilot Bruce 'Roo' Hopper, a kangaroo morph (replacing Heywood Baxter)
*Darkwave Quanda, a skunktaur and Zelkie's brother (parents inverted), who replaces Menalippe
Category:Independent starships