2064

Historical Events

• Early Year: Construction crews finish orbital installation of armament on the first Liberty ship.

• Early Year: Six more Liberty hulls are launched to orbit for installation of systems.

• Early Year: Two of the four ECON Akademik Mstislav Keldysh class cruisers are ordered rapidly modified for interstellar explorations missions.

• The Class A4 / InterOrbital Products SP-W05 "Zent Mk III" EVA pod enters service with the International Space Agency.

• April: Survey cruisers SS Defiant and SS Valiant are sent out on twenty-year missions to find the limits of human reach with the new drive. Sending back reports on radio waves only, the ships quickly disappear into the galactic void, from Earth's point of view.

• post-April: The international warp development teams attach a tug onto the hulk of the uncompleted Seneca and tow it to the Valiant construction berth, where warp modification begins.

• October: The Jules Verne, a Verne class cruiser, successfully completes a sublight test flight.

• 05 November: The original Phoenix warp engine receives a second, larger crew pod with a launch of a multicorporation recovery team. In this configuration, the ship performs a series of seven test flights, the last of which take it as far out as Saturn.

New Technology

• Size 2 vessels

• Mark 1A-2.5 Warp Nacelles

• Autopilot 1/0 Rating

• Inertial Stabilizer (acquired from the Vulcans)

References

2063

21st century 2060s

2065