Last august 1201 Quasar became the first of it's class to enter the ILU (Intermediate Life Update) programme, earlier than planned because of Quasar's structural problems. After some delays the ship has just completed it's trials and is being prepared to re-enter service and will be sent to the front line near Remedia Prime.
The Quasar ILU is a total rebuild of the hard working ship and will keep the ship at the forefront of the DDS well into the next decade. Until the arrival of the Panther the Quasar ILU is the most powerful ship in the fleet with upgrades and updates across the board. A new engine has pushed dash speed to 1005c (making the Quasar ILU only the second DDS ship to break the 1000c barrier) with a 12 hour sustained cruise of 900c. Firepower has been upgraded with a Z5 cannon (and the ILU is Zip cannon ready), a quad-bay missile launcher (as will be used in the Panther) and improved CIWS. Tactical systems have been greatly improved allowing for the Quasar ILU and track and engage many more simultaneous targets.
Many systems have been replaced with Open Architecture 2.0 (though the Quasar is not a true OA 2.0 compliant ship), the resulting space savings has allowed missile stowage to be greatly increased.
Only 1214 Graviton at the moment is being upgraded to ILU as the programme was delayed due to the war except for ships already in process.
