Ship Prefixes

In the Delta Dynamics-verse, the following governments and agencies own/operate named vessels. The designations they used as prefixes for the ships are as follows:

• Andorian Empire:

Andorian Imperial Freight Service: IFSV ("Imperial Freight Service Vessel")

Andorian Imperial Guard:

warships: IGW ("Imperial Guard Warship")

non-combat ships: IGS ("Imperial Guard Ship")

Civilian-registered freighters: ATS ("Andorian Transport Ship")

• Confederacy of Vulcan:

Civilian-registered freighters: VCS ("Vulcan Cargo Ship")

Vulcan Defense Force: DFC ("Defense Force Cruiser")

Vulcan Expeditionary Group: VSS ("Vulcan Science Ship")

• European Space Agency: no prefixes; just named vessels, sometimes accompanied by a missions-series name (ex: Ponce de León - Aventeur II)

• New United Nations - UNSS ("United Nations Space Ship") for non-enforcement/governmental interplanetary vessels of the United Nations and the NUN’s early interstellar vessels operated by the ISA.

International Space Agency:

mission spacecraft: no prefixes; just named vessels, sometimes accompanied by a missions-series name (ex: Ponce de León - Aventeur II)

rescue/regulatory cutters: IRC("ISA Rescue Cutter" or "ISA Regulatory Cutter")

ISA/NASA - Joint interplanetary missions used USNS ("United Survey and Navigation Ship")

• United Earth:

Earth Fleet - EFS ("Earth Fleet Ship")

United Earth Starfleet: UESS ("United Earth Space Ship")

United Earth Stellar Navy: UES ("United Earth Ship")

• United Federation of Planets:

Star Fleet: USS ("United Star Ship")

• United Planets of Tellar:
  

Tellar Space Administration: 'TSC ("Tellarite Star Cruiser")

Tellarite Mining Consortium: unknown

• United States of America:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration: codes (ex: OV-101), where the letters represented a mission type and the number was for sequentially designating a specific vessel within that mission

United States Air Force: codes (ex: OV-101), where the letters represented a mission type and the number was for sequentially designating a specific vessel within that mission

• Western Alliance: AWSS ("Alliance of Western States Ship")