Dart-class Light Cruiser Arkansas Traveler:
The Traveler has been plying the spacelanes for centuries, slipping in and out of known space at irregular intervals. No one knows where she started. No Dart was ever constructed under that name, that much is known. The ship's supposed history begins during the early days of the First Succession War. A FedSuns-born former SLDF naval officer, recently returned to the nation of his birth, was the first captain we know of. This man, calling himself Alexander Lionheart, supposedly chanced across the ship in the outskirts of the Kathil system, doing some survey work for the SLDF, but never told anyone until he'd left League service. He put together a skeleton crew of old SLDF mates, and offered the ship to House Davion as a privateer. He was promptly issued a letter of marque. Only a few years later his home world of Tecumseh was invaded by the Capellan Confederation, and he arrived in time to stall the attack just long enough to evacuate his childhood friends and extended family (which amounted to most of the small town of Crenshaw Springs). The evacuees made a home on the ship, filling out the crew of the WarShip and its entire complement of carrier and attack dropships (and then some!). From there, the history becomes murkier and much more mundane. Essentially, the crew continued to ply the spacelanes, shipping cargo and preying on shipping of all the foes of House Davion. Or foes of anyone else who payed. Eventually, the already close-knit crew became even more so, such that those who dealt with them in one way or another described them as being akin to "a backwoods town full of inbred hicks". This isn't entirely false, they'd come from a small town on a sparsely-populated world, and the long decades on the ship had accelerated their tendency to intermarry, such that everyone on the ship was related to everyone else by blood or marriage by the year 2900. In the intervening years they've moved beyond even that, and are now more commonly described as being "like a cult living on a compound", it just happens that their "compound" is a 680 kiloton warship. They've also spread out from Davion space, gradually wandering through Marik, Steiner, and Periphery space, mostly staying in the Periphery from the onset of the Third Succession War until the Jihad, since it was easier to hide the fact that they had a sort-of-functional WarShip. The ship was officially declared its own nation on the day that its population reached 2,500. This isn't recognized by any powers worth mentioning, but it does allow a certain (extremely thin) veneer of legitimacy when the Lord-Captain issues his own ship a letter of marque so that he can attack whatever new enemies he feels necessary. All Lord-Captains have been direct descendants of Alexander Lionheart, by the way. The current captain is know simply as "The 13th Lion" to his family-crew, and formally as V. Ian Lionheart (V for Victor, his mom like the Archon-Prince's name. He doesn't.). His most pressing concern aside from business (commerce, raiding, and commerce-raiding) is arranging marriages to make sure that inbreeding is kept to a minimum. Everybody's cousins, after all.
The Traveler carries 6 dropships: 2 Vengeance-class and 4 Arondight-class Pocket WarShips. No one knows how these latter ships were acquired, only that they replaced a mix of Avenger- and Achilles-class ships beginning around 3100. The rumors that they had incriminating pictures of Federated-Boeing executives are entirely unconfirmed.