**First Appearance:** #book3 The new name for the battleship/home that Van and Torina acquired and parked near the Starsmith’s home base. Van jokingly called this ship the Above Average for a few days. > [!warning]- Book 7 Spoiler > In book 7 this gets armed to the teeth with salvaged weapons from an ancient battle near the star [[Arx]]. Mentioned were a pair of point-defense turrets, batteries of lasers, mass-drivers and particle cannons, and a single weapon whose secrets we are still unraveling. Probably some sort of plasma-discharge cannon, a weapon that could pump out focused thermonuclear detonations. Absolutely devastating at short range. The Iowa is parked near a dwarf planet called Orcus, in Sol’s [[Kuiper belt]].