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YC114年，每个主要帝国势力都已经深陷战争泥潭，他们深深意识到了对现有舰只增加后勤功能的重要性，否则唯一的结果便是弹尽力竭。护卫舰和巡洋舰级别的舰船都是做后勤舰船的理想选择，而米玛塔尔共和国在经过全面评估之后，决定对镰刀级巡洋舰进行重新设计，赋予它新的使命。镰刀级巡洋舰依然是服役时间最长的米玛塔尔舰。它们久经沙场，是米玛塔尔传奇故事中不可或缺的一部分。重新设计之后，其之前用来提升采矿量的固件被完全抛弃，取而代之的是两套完全独立的护盾传输与后勤无人机系统。

In YC114 each major empire faction, having been embroiled in a harrowing, extensive, long-term war, recognized the growing need for support and logistics functionality in their vessels during the kind of protracted interstellar warfare that might otherwise prove exhausting for its participants. Both Frigate and Cruiser-class ships were put under the microscope, and in the Minmatar Republic the outcome of the re-evaluation process led, among other developments, to a redesign and redeployment of the Scythe. The Scythe-class cruiser remains the oldest Minmatar ship still in use. It has seen many battles and is an integrated part in Minmatar tales and heritage. With its redesign, past firmware upgrades for mining output were tossed out entirely in favor of two new separate systems that focused on shield transporting and logistics drones respectively.