I always interested in world details because I considered myself as a writer and I loved the Transcendence settings. Federation (CW) vs Evil Empire (Ares), scheming alien power, swashbuckling (or laserbuckling) pirates, mysterious religious cult, human subspesies, everything we need to establish som...

I figured the IAVs were initially serviceships of some kind (possibly for manouvreing repair plates onto the armour segments of truly massive ships such as superfreighters). Then one day someone made a cheap spaceship out of the hull of a serviceship by adding a reactor, fusion drive, armour, and a...

So that what IAV means. The IAVs doesn't look 'improvised' to me. So, who flying it? Civilian or private military contractor?
I always wondering, where the civilian spacecraft anyway? Or IAV represent whatever ordinary civilian flew in 25th century.

I'm just curious. I have seen light IAV, medium IAV, and heavy IAV, but I don't know what IAV means and it just bug me...
So anybody know what the official meaning of IAV? Is it an acronym?

Don't tell me it means Interesting Anonymous Vehicular thingy or something.