Argos

History
The Argos was Harrican Syldanade's famed baneship, modified for pleasure cruising and so-called peaceful exploration after his retirement from piracy. According to Syldanade, its power source was the legendary Golden Fleece itself, the static from which provided electricity in sufficient quantity to keep the Argos fully powered at all times. Though this claim is dubious, the Argos's speed and power were unrivaled in its time.

The Argos's emblem of a giant, glowing eye, occupying one hemisphere of the hull, could be seen from the ground when the baneship was in a low planetary orbit. In one of his many self-congratulatory speeches to the Farthingside Brotherhood of Explorers, Syldanade described how he used this to his advantage when facing the Ferendar, a carnivorous pygmy tribe he discovered on Shree:
 * Though we shared no language in common, the threatening gestures they made with their knives left little doubt in my mind that they intended to eat me. Glowering down upon them, I illuminated the searchbeam in my monocle, then gestured dramatically to the sky. As they looked up and saw the Argos staring at them as well, they threw down their weapons and began to worship me. Had it not been for that unfortunate pox, that tribe would still consider me a god to this day.

Destruction
The Argos was scuttled in the Belt of Nertoh under mysterious circumstances. Syldanade claims that he was being pursued by a tachyonteron he had accidentally roused from within a black hole, and that leading the stellar beast away from occupied space was the only thing he could hope to do. As Syldanade was, as in so many other cases, the only survivor of this accident, his story remains unverifiable. No trace of the Argos was ever recovered, despite the numerous treasure hunters who to this day take their lives into their hands in search of it.