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The Pioneer is a colonization and factory spacecraft sold by Consolidated Outland, the second project pursued by the company. Introduced in 2947, the Pioneer was developed using funds from the successful Mustang series of single seat spacecraft and was intended to disrupt the then-standard process for locating, claiming and establishing homesteads on newly-explored worlds. The vessel is capable of deploying standardized claim buoys and constructing and deploying modular outposts using an onboard production line.