The Magellan Class JumpShip has been in service with ComStar since 2960. Commissioned by Primus Adrienne Sims, the Magellan rapidly has become a mainstay of the ComStar fleet, largely because of its impressive capacity for long-range missions. The Magellan is produced at the O'Neil yards at Terra. The first new Magellan left the yard in 3079, and surprised the Star League member states with a demonstration of its capabilities.
         The Magellan's massive fuel tanks allow it to operate for years before refueling. The Magellan's cargo facility can hold thousands of tons of food and supplies for a crew and passengers. Although it was designed for long-range missions, the Magellan lacks a grav deck and must use the acceleration method to generate artificial gravity for its crew. This procedure consumes fuel, however, and so the captain of a Magellan must strike a balance between the health of his crew and the need to conserve fuel on long missions.
         The Magellan is equipped with a formidable array of weapons, including several lasers, a pair of LRM missile racks situated in the nose and stern, and a series of anti-missile guns in each arc. The vessel is protected by 75 tons of armor, making it one of the most well-armored JumpShips in existence.
         The Magellan's bulbous command module houses 20 crew members in luxurious quarters, and an additional 28 well- equipped staterooms accommodate a marine platoon complement for defending the JumpShip and for exploring uncharted planets. The command section also houses an advanced medical facility, complete with operating theater and isolation ward. The medical facility contains technology not seen outside of ComStar since the fall of the Star League and has sufficient equipment to keep four critically injured patients alive until the vessel can return to the Inner Sphere.
         Like most ComStar DropShips and JumpShips, the Magellan carries a sophisticated hyperpulse generator (HPG), facilitating faster-than-light communications with any other HPG within 50 light-years. The security of these sophisticated communications devices is the highest priority of any Magellan crew. Until the failure of Operation Scorpion and the resulting dissemination of HPG technology to the Successor States, the First Circuit considered the loss of a Magellan and its crew preferable to its HPG falling into non-ComStar hands.