The Monitor-class cruiser was built for the purpose of scouting and monitoring systems of trouble. Kuat Drive Yards subcontracted several elements of the design to XeroStar Corporation, including the ships engines. In addition they paid the company a sizable fee to help in creating the massive sensor suit called the Monitor-X Detection System. The Monitor-X combined numerous types of detection systems including a rare Crystal Gravfield Trap making the ship capable of detecting even a cloaked vessel. The complex system involved in translating all the data from the various types of sensors was only made possible by a combined team of Kuati and XeroStar engineers.