The 4325 Trine Scout is a spacecraft that was meant to be the flagship product of Trine Enterprises, a since-defunct corporation. The ships were mass-produced and were designed to be more affordable to the public at a basic level, with the intention being that owners of these ships would gradually "upgrade" the ship's systems and components that had higher profit margins than the base ship. The 4325 Trine Scout's design was said to be a perfect balance of size and speed, as its small size would reduce fuel costs without compromising speed and ability to traverse vast distances.
Pre-purchases of the ship were intended to fund the construction of accessible "ship garages" and other launching equipment throughout "underserved" parts of Ealdremen, as the company had spent most of its limited funding on building, testing, and manufacturing the ships. An urban legend claims that a misprint on the manufacturing manifests resulted in 1,000,000 ships being manufactured rather than a more humble initial 100, but there is no evidence that this actually occurred. Whatever the case, the supply of the ships vastly outstripped the demand; even a cheap spaceship was far out of reach of most buyers, especially if they did not already live near a spaceport and have the means to store their ship when not in use. Because of this, Trine Enterprises soon went bankrupt and was absorbed by the Gerualdi Union, which went on to liquidate the ships at a mass scale, as the task of re-engineering the ships into something meeting their needs was considered too costly compared to simply dumping the stock onto the public market and using sales to pay off outstanding debts connected to Trine Enterprises.
Because of this history, the 4325 Trine Scout is widely ridiculed among businessmen and spacecraft specialists alike; its parts are seen as deliberately underpowered to save on costs, and its small hull means that its crew size of one to a maximum of three must be skilled specialists in multiple disciplines relating to space navigation and piloting — when in reality, anyone skilled enough to successfully accomplish such a feat would easily find employment on a larger ship or would, at bare minimum, be knowledgeable enough to not want to work aboard such a ship. As a result, pilots of 4325 Trine Scouts are generally underqualified and often taking on whatever jobs they can get — regardless of legality — to pay off the exorbitant costs they incurred in purchasing their "starter ship" that has now put them into debt.