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The Waterbug was developed during the General War by some Green Orion Engineers at Maracas Shipyards, to iron the kinks out of the high-speed, high-power OWA-3 Warp Engine, and to sell a more promising mercenary gunboat to a number of weaker worlds, most notably some of the Galaxy Voyagers nations, who were getting nervous by more and more bloodthirsty warfare from the major powers, and concerned that this major warfare, much bigger than their small, numerous squabbles would reach and decimate them.
8-10 were produced a year from Maracas and Prime Industries Shipyards from 2284 to 2296, totalling 123, and of them, 8 changed hands numerous times, 1 was captured by the Klingons for study, 64 were sold to various buyers, including 3 to the LDR, 17 were scrapped after long, and eventful service throughout the 2330s, and 43 were used by various Orion and Merchant Groups, sometimes in the Triangle.