The NMX Listening Post is a small, armed NMX automated intelligence gathering ship that first appeared in YE 31.
The Listening Post features a pair of communications arrays, which are tied into into a Mishhuvurthyar quantum computer programmed to break down encryption algorithms, and decipher encrypted enemy communications. It then sends packets of data back to the battlegroup it belongs to.
See Damage Rating (Version 3) for an explanation of the damage system.