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Historical Events

• Two Nordenskiöld sub-class light cruisers are decommissioned.

• USS Siva (NCC-520, Siva Flight II destroyer) enters drydock to receive a second nacelle.

• The final Voyager sub-class light survey cruiser is decommissioned.

• The final Texas (II) sub-class light cruiser is decommissioned.

• The Taurus sub-class cruisers receive transporter upgrades.

• USS Byrd (first of her class) returns from her second and final galactic survey. After decommissioning, she is placed in orbit around Aldebaran as an exhibit of the history and exploits of the entire class.

The year of exhibition is undetermined.

• The last HSI(U)-1S 'Banshee' scout (variant of the old Class G1 heavy warp shuttle) is removed from service with Star Fleet, delivered by USS Indus to an allied star system to perform in local patrol and law enforcement roles.

• Interior outfitting of the operational Earth Spacedock is completed.

• Two ships, USS Carmichael (NCC-4705) and USS Henley(NCC-4713), both Wilkerson destroyers, collide in a tractor beam misfire while pulling alongside a replenishment station, with containment failure on both vessels resulting in the loss of 730 lives.

• The final Whirlwind class assault ship is decommissioned.

• Three Federation dreadnoughts are not selected for overhaul and two of them are instead placed in a reserve status.

Those two are USS Compactat (NCC-2103), which then went onto training status in 2281, until deactivated in 2287, and USS Confederation (NCC-2114), deactivated in 2281. The third, USS Dominion (NCC-2115), remained on active duty until 2286 and then deactivated in 2295.

• The twelfth foreign-leased Achernar is returned to Star Fleet.

The year of the return is generated.

• The Caldos II colony is founded.

• The USS Bader, USS Clifton, and USS Tombaugh (Bader class exploratory cruisers) host a series of Sagan Award recipients for the final year, while the USS Akela and USS Crescent retrace old survey routes.

This occurred since 2268.

• The Bader exploratory cruiser class is transferred to the Star Fleet Merchant Marine.

• The final Solar Mk III class cutter completes its service with the FCS.

• The final Sulek prospector is sold off by the Resources Division.

• The final Mk II Malaka subclass light scoutcraft is retired from Star Fleet service.

• The remaining Remora class escorts still on active reserve duty (with the exception of USS Remora herself) are honorably discharged and swiftly scrapped.

• Star Fleet accepts eleven relatively-new AIG Lenthal destroyers, re-designated at Flight II escorts.

• The final Ranger Flight III corsair enters service with Star Fleet Intelligence (and for utilization by other "mandated users").

• Construction of the final Chandley strike frigate in the Flight III configuration concludes.

• The final vessel of the Leonardo corsair subclass enters service with Star Fleet.

• With the matching of the LN-40A warp nacelle model to the USS Sir Galahad (NX-2330), the Makin assault ship class enters (full) service with Star Fleet.

Since 2268, the five previously completed ships were limited to impulse test runs.

• Two Remora Flight II escorts are decommissioned for a specific sale to a private military corporation providing escort to a twenty-ship settler convoy to Cutting Edge at Epsilon Librae.

• The final Andor class cruiser is delivered to the AIG.

• The Type 1 assault shuttle variant enters service with Star Fleet.

• The Type 1 survey shuttle variant enters service with Star Fleet.

• The final Constitution Flight III starship is recommissioned as a Flight IV cruiser.

Characters

• TK Robbson is assigned as an Intelligence Advisor to the President.

New Technology

• Type D Plasma Injector System
• Type 3 Long Range Sensors
• Class 4 Cloaking Device

References

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