CTS Debardeur

Where many of her contemporaries are known for their hospitality, charm, exports, or exploits, this is not the Debardeur's claim to fame. This ship is known, first and foremost, for doing logistics, and doing it damn well. No Tahoro can load or unload faster. No other ship's engines burn so hot. When the Debardeur arrives in your system, you can rest assured that it will dispense all outbound cargo, accept any inbound, have everything perfectly sorted, and arrive at the system transit point, all before three shifts have passed. 
The Debardeur, or as its sailors affectionately know her, the Bard, is not only the most efficient ship in the CTS fleet, but also the only worker-owned ship of the fleet, and the most-Concordian ship in the fleet. Social democrats across the Chord claim the cooperative nature of the Bard is the source of its wealth, and it is wealthy. But the Confederation and many within the Concordance claim it is the racial makeup of the Bard that assures its success. The workers within may have a wide range of opinions on the matter, but it is the rest of the galaxy's problem to make sense of these things.
The Bard is one of 7 ships built in the second generation of CTS vessels, and received private funding during its construction. And for the first four decades of its life, the ship was the most owned ship in the fleet. It has the most privately held shares on the market. After the first generation of ships, the Concordance realized that investors would never invest in something that could buy itself out from under them. The Bard, with 70% of it out on the market, was harder pressed for efficiency and profit than even the Fabriker, which the Bard and her crew loathed even back then.
Because of this harsh treatment, however, the sailors of the Bard found ways to push back. At first, it was small acts of resistance. Slow-downs, lost luggage and cargo, poor service. But then Slow-downs became strikes. Lost cargo became expropriation for the common good. During the Hadar Shipping Crisis of 839, resistance culminated into a general strike with a single demand: "Every Sailor, a Member of the Board!" With the Concordat Navy already shamed, the sailors of the Bard gambled that the Navy would not dare fire on them. At the same time, they offered to buy the shares off of their owners, which displeased the Concordance just enough to still pass.
And with that, the first and only co-op Tahoro was born

Demographics

While most CTS vessels are majority crewed by Concordians (we are the most populous, after all), the Bard is unusual in that her crew is ethnically 100% Concordian. No Huitzlians, Kilurus, or Yaoren to speak of.

Architecture

The Bard is four kilometers long, like every Tahoro-class. like every other 2nd gen ship of her class, her hull is stellar-grade Leviathan Mahogany. The outside of the vessel is kept clean and clear, with nothing but Hangers, observation decks, and "CTS Debardeur" in well-lit, big, red letters.

Founding Date

799 (Hull) or 839 (Co-op)

Alternative Name(s)

The Bard (her sailors), Dirty Commie Whoreship (popular in Bellum*)

Inhabitant Demonym

Barders

Owning Organization

Concordance Transit System