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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D">“Reconnaissance” is the word David’s looking for. Cf. the beginning of the WikIPedia article:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">Reconnaissance</span></font></b> is the military term for exploring beyond the area occupied by friendly forces to gain vital information about enemy forces or features
of the environment for later analysis and/or dissemination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Often referred to as
<i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recce" title="wiktionary:recce">recce</a></span></i> (British English) or
<i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recon" title="wiktionary:recon">recon</a></span></i> (North American English, Australian English), the associated verb is
<i><span style="font-style:italic">reconnoitre</span></i> in British English or <i>
<span style="font-style:italic">reconnoiter</span></i> in North American English.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Examples of reconnaissance include
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolling" title="Patrolling">patrolling</a> by troops (rangers, scouts, or military intelligence specialists), ships or
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarines</a>, manned/unmanned
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_reconnaissance" title="Aerial reconnaissance">
aircraft</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellites" title="Satellites">
satellites</a>, or by setting up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert" title="Covert">
covert</a> observation posts. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spying" title="Spying">
Espionage</a> normally is not reconnaissance, because reconnaissance is a military force's operating ahead of its main forces; spies are non-combatants operating behind enemy lines.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D"><<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance</a>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> David
Holt [mailto:kenjutsuka@live.com] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 04, 2013 8:39 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] tlharghDuj<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I don't believe there has ever been such a thing as a "scout ship" in real Terran history. However, it seems to be modeled after the real military
action of a scout. The job of a scout is to break away from the main group of soldiers, so as to be more stealthy, and see if he can collect a little information on the enemy and report back to the main group what they should expect. You can't call him a
"spy" because in English that carries the implication that he is embedded amongst his enemy and probably disguised as one of them. The scout is just gathering a quick bit of info and returning to his troops so it's more about moving silently and quickly and
less about disguise and full understanding of the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">So, a scout ship is one which is mostly engines with perhaps a few stealth items (such as a cloaking device). It is typically lightly armored
and lightly armed, reducing its mass and increasing it's acceleration and perhaps even increasing its top speed (though in Star Trek, they are actually limited by warp limits, so almost everyone has the same top speed). Thus it can get ahead of the fleet
and if there's trouble, escape from the trouble and report back to the fleet what to expect.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Google translate gives me the words "auskundschaften" or "erkunden" as a translation for "to scout". I hope this has been helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">janSIy<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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