MSV Borealis
The dismantled remains of the Borealis on Feros.
Production information
Manufacturer:	Hessa Combine
Class:	Kowloon-class modular conveyor
Operator(s):	Jlkarn Combine
Technical information
Length:	190m
Width:	110-130m
Height/depth:	40-50m
Max acceleration:	15 kilometers per second (maximum speed)
Engine unit(s):	Element Zero Drive Core
Power plant:	1 Element Zero drive cores
Shielding:	Kinetic Barrier
Hull:	Basic hull
Sensor systems:	LIDAR Radar
Crew:	16
Skeleton crew:	10
Usage
Commissioned:	1 September 2019 CE
Decommissioned:	17 June 2183 CE
Role(s):	Merchant shipping
Engagements:	Eden Prime War Battle of Feros
Fleet:	Jlkarn Combine's mercantile fleet
Commander(s):	Captain Inoste Ledra

MSV Borealis, known prior to 2172 CE as the MSV Oceanic, was a Kowloon-class modular conveyor serving the volus Jlkarn Combine shipping company. Purchased in 2023 CE by the Jlkarn Combine, the Borealis was used as part of the Combine's mercantile fleet for twenty years before being privately chartered by Jlkarn Combine employee Expat Nor, who recrewed the ship with many non-volus who he personally knew and trusted, beginning to run the ship out of the Citadel, where it would transport items of value from his store on the Citadel to colonies across Council space, and vice versa. By 2170 CE, he had also welcomed many human crew members onto the ship, with the chief engineer of the Borealis being Hana Murakami. On the 31st of May 2183 CE, the Borealis was contracted by ExoGeni to provide much needed supplies and equipment to the Zhu's Hope colony, but three days later, an ExoGeni team accidentally uncovered the hiding place of an ancient plant-based lifeform which proceeded to infect the entire Zhu's Hope colony with parasitic spores that slowly turned them into docile, obedient servants to its will as a defensive mechanism. As they were present at the time, the entire crew of the Borealis were infected and at the Thorian's direction chose to remain on Feros, even before ExoGeni initiated their quarantine and barred them from leaving anyway. Unable and unwilling to leave, the crew of the Borealis stood with the Zhu's Hope colony when the colony was attacked by geth two weeks later, and after repelling the first geth attempt to exterminate the Thorian, the crew dismantled the Borealis and utilized the ship's modular nature to construct a prefab bunker ontop of the Thorian's lair, shielding its existence from others while also serving as temporary living quarters for the surviving colonists. After the destruction of the Thorian at the hands of the Normandy Squad, the freed Borealis crew contacted Expat for pick up, choosing to leave behind the dismantled Borealis so that the colonists could use it for their rebuilding efforts. Expat, upon hearing the story, chose not to charge the colonists for a new ship to replace it, arguing that they had been through enough and didn't need some angry volus merchant demanding compensation for the loss of his vessel. The following day, Expat petitioned the Jlkarn Combine for a replacement vessel, and he was given one only a day later, with his crew free to continue their operations.

What was left of the Borealis was destroyed when Feros fell during the Reaper War, destroyed when the Reapers blasted the settlement from orbit following their successful invasion.

The ship's name "Borealis" is a Latin translation of "northern" or "of the north". Expat renamed the ship to Borealis after Murakami mentioned the name in passing, saying that he "liked the sound of it."