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Historical Events

• Main impulse engines are reclassified via "class" rather than "type"; former Type 2, 3A, 5, and 5A are reclassified as Class 1, 2, 3, and 3A respectively.

• Advances in materials science and warp engine dynamics allows Star Fleet to discard the less-efficient horizontal chamber in favor of wholly vertical warp cores, except in those designs where the size or configuration of a ship required a horizontal core.

• The final Lena subclass light supply ship is decommissioned.

• Aboard a private Denevan testbed ship, SS Resonance, a major breakthrough in warp technology is achieved by disconnecting the phase locks of the ship’s exceptionally tight-tolerance and high-sensitivity warp field coils for extended periods of time. The observing engineers locate several natural minima in the warp field energy input curve, following the allowance for overlapping, multiphasic fields.

• Star Fleet engineers initiate a program to examine the newly discovered natural phenomenon of warp field energy minima in regards to subspace and to develop a multiphasic warp coil.

This program comes to fruition in 2305.

• With the decommissioning of the last Pompey subclass destroyer, the service of the Syracuse class to Star Fleet appears to be done. (Sixteen Siva Flight II ships are mothballed as of 2375.)

• Except for limited runs when the requirement arose, the Type 1 "Merlin" medium shuttle ceases production.

New Technology

• Vertical warp core (and warp core ejection capability)
• Class 4 Main Impulse Engine
• Class 4A Main Impulse Engine
• Class 4B Main Impulse Engine
• Type E Emergency Power System

References

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