2220s

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Summary

  • Beginning: Star Fleet faces repeated demands of increased performance of both its war fleet and exploration forces; the numbers of new ships stay low and the performance is still barely on par with Klingon weapons technology.[1]
  • Beginning: The established, but confidential, doctrine for the defense of the UFP is abandoning of the colonies and focusing on the defense of the core worlds, above all.[1]
  • Early: The Klingon threat is escalating, though it will ebb and flow through this and the next decade.[2][3]
  • There are no resources for building starbases at the rate required to support operations on the faraway Klingon border.[2]
  • The Mann and Ranger class light cruisers form Star Fleet’s main defense against the Klingons, ‘holding the fort’ until ships designed from the outset to oppose the warrior empire are fielded.[4]
  • The threat environment requires that even science scouts be ready to repel a Klingon invasion.[5]
  • The Baton Rouge heavy cruisers and Detroyat and Saladin destroyers start replacing the Manns and Rangers in the contested Federation/Klingon space.[6]
  • Star Fleet struggles to find a suitable replacement for the PB-21 nacelle for the Burke series frigates.[7]
  • The use of Class D3 work pod first dwindles aboard starships.[8]
  • Star Fleet attempts to field interstellar-capable utility craft.[9]
  • Following the Suliban Cabal's fall, the Suliban are viewed with deep suspicion by galactic powers, living in scattered settlements or assimilating into other cultures as a galactic pariah state.[11]
This condition will continue into the 2250s.
  • Mid-decade: Star Fleet finally has projects ongoing on all the types of warship it needs for halting a potential Klingon invasion.[12]

Years

Events

  • By: most Texas class light cruisers are relegated to in-system, sublight patrol duty.[13]
  • The last Y class transports cease operation in the Federation (per official records).[14]
  • The remaining Ganges class destroyers (long grounded) are scrapped for construction materials.[15]
  • The Watt class fleet tanker/transports are ordered de-commissioned and sold for scrap.[16]
  • The Ariadne class patrol corvettes (and its subclasses) are collectively painted more subdued colors and sensor-absorbing coatings, in order to better hide from aggressors.[17]
  • The Selenia Mk 1 torpedo launch system is dubbed a ‘heavy’ weapon.[18]
  • Several partial studies that examine a conversion of the Kovaris light destroyers into scouts are conducted.[19]
  • The last convoy operations are held to counter Klingon border raids, until exercises in the mid-2260s.[20]
  • Star Fleet decides the stratagem of quality over missing quantity is proven insufficient: the two main lines of destroyers are spread too thin on the battlefronts to amass to decisive strength and the cruisers are in the wrong place in the wrong time.[21]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guide: Bonaventure (Testbed)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guide: Ptolemy
  3. ↑ Guide: Ishinomaki
  4. ↑ Guide: Mann
  5. ↑ Guide: Lowell
  6. ↑ Guide: Ranger
  7. ↑ Guide: Burke
  8. ↑ Guide: Class D3 (pod)
  9. ↑ Guide: Chameleon
  10. ↑ Federation Credit
  11. ↑ Suliban
  12. ↑ Guide: Richter/Heston
  13. ↑ Guide: Texas refit
  14. ↑ Guide: Hercules
  15. ↑ Guide: Ganges
  16. ↑ Guide: Watt
  17. ↑ Guide: Ariadne
  18. ↑ Guide: Detroyat
  19. ↑ Guide: Hale
  20. ↑ Guide: Independence
  21. ↑ Guide: Proxima




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