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* [[Star Fleet]] unveils the New Light Frigate initiative, creating a light frigate design based off the export versions of the ''Procyon'' corvettes.<ref name=Okinawa>[[Guide: Okinawa]]</ref>
* [[Star Fleet]] unveils the New Light Frigate initiative, creating a light frigate design based off the export versions of the ''Procyon'' corvettes.<ref name=Okinawa>[[Guide: Okinawa]]</ref>


* A concerted effort is made to save the megesti, an energy-hungry spaceborne species endemic to the [[Algol]] system.<ref name=Burke>[[Guide: Burke]]</ref>
* A concerted effort is made to save the [[megesti]], an energy-hungry spaceborne species endemic to the [[Algol]] system.<ref name=Burke>[[Guide: Burke]]</ref>


* In lieu of an impulse or subimpulse fightercraft of similarly compact dimensions to the ''Benares''-type orbital hoppers, a gunship version of that craft enters [[Star Fleet]] service (onboard ''Coronado'' class through-deck cruisers).<ref name=Benares>[[Guide: Benares]]</ref>
* In lieu of an impulse or subimpulse fightercraft of similarly compact dimensions to the ''Benares''-type orbital hoppers, a gunship version of that craft enters [[Star Fleet]] service (onboard ''Coronado'' class through-deck cruisers).<ref name=Benares>[[Guide: Benares]]</ref>


* [[Star Fleet]] decides to draw up a standard small, general purpose work pod with modular tool packs.<ref name=Type10pod>[[Guide: Type 10 (pod)]]</ref>
* [[Star Fleet]] decides to draw up a standard small, general purpose work pod with modular tool packs.<ref name=Type10pod>[[Guide: Type 10 (pod)]]</ref>
* In response to escalating slave-raiding, Admiral [[Saoirse Fitzpatrick]] utilizes specialized "Mendez Columns" to protect the [[Vota Star Cluster]]'s colonies.<ref name=VSC>SFC: [[Vota Star Cluster]]</ref>
: ''This continues into [[2259]].''


* '''Early:''' The ''Hopi'' large survey cruiser enters service with [[Star Fleet]].<ref name=Hopi>[[Guide: Hopi]]</ref>
* '''Early:''' The ''Hopi'' large survey cruiser enters service with [[Star Fleet]].<ref name=Hopi>[[Guide: Hopi]]</ref>


* '''March:''' Convoy PD-14, consisting of 20 ships but escorted by only two [[Star Fleet vessels]], launches from [[Archanis IV]] in an atmosphere of urgency due to depleted resources and insufficient available escorts. It is tasked with providing vital dilithium supplies from the [[Archanis Sector]] to key reconstruction efforts on worlds such as [[Corvan II]] and [[Novo Leningrad]]. At approximately 10 light-years out from Archanis IV, the convoy is attacked by six [[Nausicaan]] raider ships. After two days of raiding, only five ships remain. Both Star Fleet vessels are destroyed.<ref name=EOM>[[:File:Edge Of Midnight - The Business of Risk.pdf|''Edge Of Midnight - The Business of Risk (2256-2261)'']], pp 61-64</ref>
* '''February 8th:''' The [[Ch'Shukar Report]]—officially titled the "Inquiry Into the Conduct of Hostilities, 2256-57" and a landmark assessment of [[Star Fleet]]'s performance during the [[Federation-Klingon War|first Klingon War]], is released.<ref name=Ch'ShukarReport>[[Ch'Shukar Report]]</ref>
 
* '''March:''' Convoy PD-14, consisting of 20 ships but escorted by only two [[Star Fleet]] vessels, launches from [[Archanis IV]] in an atmosphere of urgency due to depleted resources and insufficient available escorts. It is tasked with providing vital dilithium supplies from the [[Archanis Sector]] to key reconstruction efforts on worlds such as [[Corvan II]] and [[Novo Leningrad]]. At approximately 10 light-years out from Archanis IV, the convoy is attacked by six [[Nausicaan]] raider ships. After two days of raiding, only five ships remain. Both Star Fleet vessels are destroyed.<ref name=EOM_6164>[[:File:Edge Of Midnight - The Business of Risk.pdf|''Edge Of Midnight - The Business of Risk (2256-2261)'']], pp 61-64</ref>
 
* '''April 4th:''' After a scathing political attack by former ally [[Byss Th'Rhalat]], President [[Erica Barreuco]] receives a vote of no confidence from the [[Federation Council]], resulting in her replacement by Th'Rhalat as President Pro Tempore.<ref name=EB>SFC: [[Erica Barreuco]]</ref>


* '''June:''' ''USS Inuit'' (NCC-747, ''Cahuya'' survey cruiser) is lost in the [[Azha]] system to consumption by a spaceborne lifeform of a type common in the region (though, at the time, it was presumed to be due to an encounter with Klingons).<ref name=Venture>[[Guide: Venture]]</ref><ref name=Cahuya>[[Guide: Cahuya]]</ref>
* '''June:''' ''USS Inuit'' (NCC-747, ''Cahuya'' survey cruiser) is lost in the [[Azha]] system to consumption by a spaceborne lifeform of a type common in the region (though, at the time, it was presumed to be due to an encounter with Klingons).<ref name=Venture>[[Guide: Venture]]</ref><ref name=Cahuya>[[Guide: Cahuya]]</ref>


* '''August 11th:''' [[Star Fleet Command]] creates the [[Klingon Border Operations Command]] (KLICOM).<ref name=Midnight>[https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/timeline.html Edge Of Midnight: "Timeline of Events"]</ref>
* '''August:''' The [[Federation]] provides industrial fabricators to the [[Sovereign Ruling Council]] (SRC) of [[Acamar]].<ref name=AC>SFC: [[Acamar Crisis]]</ref>


* '''September 15th:''' [[Ryn Ch’Shukar]] is appointed [[Commander, Star Fleet]].<ref name=Midnight>[https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/timeline.html Edge Of Midnight: "Timeline of Events"]</ref>
* '''August 11th:''' [[Star Fleet Command]] creates the [[Klingon Border Operations Command]] (KLICOM).<ref name=Midnight>[https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/timeline.html ''Edge Of Midnight'': "Timeline of Events"]</ref>
 
* '''September 15th:''' [[Ryn Ch'Shukar]] is appointed [[Commander, Star Fleet]].<ref name=Midnight>[https://edgeofmidnight.weebly.com/timeline.html ''Edge Of Midnight'': "Timeline of Events"]</ref>
 
* '''November 6th:''' President Pro Tempore [[Byss Th'Rhalat]] wins a special election for a [[2259]]-[[2262]] term as [[Federation President]].<ref name=BT>SFC: [[Byss Th'Rhalat]]</ref>


===Characters===
===Characters===
* [[Heiharchio Nogura]] is assigned as both the Chief of [[Star Fleet Operations]] and as Head of the War Plans.<ref name=HN>[[Heiharchio Nogura]]</ref>
* [[Heiharchio Nogura]] is assigned as both the Chief of [[Star Fleet Operations]] and as Head of the War Plans.<ref name=HN>SFC: [[Heiharchio Nogura]]</ref>
 
* [[Ryn Ch'Shukar]] is assigned as Commander of [[Star Fleet]].<ref name=RC>SFC: [[Ryn Ch'Shukar]]</ref>
 
* [[Vaughan Rittenhouse]] is assigned as commander-in-chief of the [[7th Fleet]].<ref name=VR>SFC: [[Vaughan Rittenhouse]]</ref>
 
* [[Peter Touissant]] is assigned as the first officer onboard ''USS Mikasa''.<ref name=PT>SFC: [[Peter Touissant]]</ref>
 
* [[Robert Stone]] is promoted to captain, assigned to the Star Fleet War Plans Division.<ref name=RS>SFC: [[Robert Stone]]</ref>


* [[Ryn Ch'Shukar]] is assigned as Commander of [[Star Fleet]].<ref name=RC>[[Ryn Ch'Shukar]]</ref>
* [[Sturka]] is made Advisor of State to the Chancellor and Chief of the Imperial Klingon General Staff.<ref name=Sturka>SFC: [[Sturka]]</ref>


* [[Vaughan Rittenhouse]] is assigned as commander-in-chief of the [[7th Fleet]].<ref name=VR>[[Vaughan Rittenhouse]]</ref>
* [[Kor]] is a Commander (Inferior) on ''IKS Ma'Kiag''.<ref name=Kor>SFC: [[Kor]]</ref>


* [[Peter Touissant]] is assigned as the first officer onboard ''USS Mikasa''.<ref name=PT>[[Peter Touissant]]</ref>
* [[Dak'Rah]] is made a [[Federation]] ambassador-at-large along the Klingon Border Region.<ref name=Dak'Rah>SFC: [[Dak'Rah]]</ref>


* '''Post-September:''' [[Matt Decker]] is assigned as the commanding officer of ''USS Constellation''.<ref name=MD>[[Matt Decker]]</ref>
* '''Post-September:''' [[Matt Decker]] is assigned as the commanding officer of ''USS Constellation''.<ref name=MD>SFC: [[Matt Decker]]</ref>


==New Technology==
==New Technology==

Latest revision as of 02:29, 14 August 2026

Historical Events

  • The final Advance class battle cruiser is stricken from Star Fleet's registry.[1]
  • The last of the Keppler sub-class of Ptolemy fleet tug/tenders are completed.[2]
  • USS Texas, the first of the final 26 remaining Texas class light cruisers to receive overhauls, is completed, as a new Texas (II) class light cruiser.[3]
  • The ships of the three Rochester sub-classes complete the refits.[4]
  • The final Guardian class heavy escort is decommissioned.[5]
  • Construction starts on the Paladin subclass destroyer.[6]
  • USS New America (NCC-2706, Loknar frigate) tractors to safety a Federation starliner that had suffered an impulse drive malfunction on approach of Procyon and was in danger of plunging into the chromosphere of the star with 400 people aboard.[7]
  • USS Sverdlov (NCC-1238, Coventry strike frigate) fails to return from a test run of the new PB-51 series engines.[8][9]
In reality, this was a black op to secure the Sverdlov for Star Fleet Intelligence in development as an observation ship, USS Soyuz. The truth behind the "loss" would be declassified in the 2290s.
  • The funding of future Santee and Coronado shuttlecarrier is interrupted.[10]
  • The Princeton subclass shuttlecarrier program is canceled.[10]
  • The final Santee shuttlecarrier is completed.[10]
  • The final Mustang class corvette is completed.[11]
  • Star Fleet unveils the New Light Frigate initiative, creating a light frigate design based off the export versions of the Procyon corvettes.[12]
  • A concerted effort is made to save the megesti, an energy-hungry spaceborne species endemic to the Algol system.[13]
  • In lieu of an impulse or subimpulse fightercraft of similarly compact dimensions to the Benares-type orbital hoppers, a gunship version of that craft enters Star Fleet service (onboard Coronado class through-deck cruisers).[14]
  • Star Fleet decides to draw up a standard small, general purpose work pod with modular tool packs.[15]
This continues into 2259.
  • Early: The Hopi large survey cruiser enters service with Star Fleet.[17]
  • March: Convoy PD-14, consisting of 20 ships but escorted by only two Star Fleet vessels, launches from Archanis IV in an atmosphere of urgency due to depleted resources and insufficient available escorts. It is tasked with providing vital dilithium supplies from the Archanis Sector to key reconstruction efforts on worlds such as Corvan II and Novo Leningrad. At approximately 10 light-years out from Archanis IV, the convoy is attacked by six Nausicaan raider ships. After two days of raiding, only five ships remain. Both Star Fleet vessels are destroyed.[19]
  • June: USS Inuit (NCC-747, Cahuya survey cruiser) is lost in the Azha system to consumption by a spaceborne lifeform of a type common in the region (though, at the time, it was presumed to be due to an encounter with Klingons).[21][22]

Characters

  • Robert Stone is promoted to captain, assigned to the Star Fleet War Plans Division.[30]
  • Sturka is made Advisor of State to the Chancellor and Chief of the Imperial Klingon General Staff.[31]
  • Kor is a Commander (Inferior) on IKS Ma'Kiag.[32]
  • Post-September: Matt Decker is assigned as the commanding officer of USS Constellation.[34]

New Technology

References

  1. ↑ Guide: Horizon/Advance
  2. ↑ Guide: Ptolemy
  3. ↑ Guide: Texas refit
  4. ↑ Guide: Rochester
  5. ↑ Guide: Guardian
  6. ↑ Guide: Nelson
  7. ↑ Guide: Loknar
  8. ↑ Guide: Coventry
  9. ↑ Guide: Soyuz
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Guide: Santee
  11. ↑ Guide: Mustang
  12. ↑ Guide: Okinawa
  13. ↑ Guide: Burke
  14. ↑ Guide: Benares
  15. ↑ Guide: Type 10 (pod)
  16. ↑ SFC: Vota Star Cluster
  17. ↑ Guide: Hopi
  18. ↑ Ch'Shukar Report
  19. ↑ Edge Of Midnight - The Business of Risk (2256-2261), pp 61-64
  20. ↑ SFC: Erica Barreuco
  21. ↑ Guide: Venture
  22. ↑ Guide: Cahuya
  23. ↑ SFC: Acamar Crisis
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Edge Of Midnight: "Timeline of Events"
  25. ↑ SFC: Byss Th'Rhalat
  26. ↑ SFC: Heiharchio Nogura
  27. ↑ SFC: Ryn Ch'Shukar
  28. ↑ SFC: Vaughan Rittenhouse
  29. ↑ SFC: Peter Touissant
  30. ↑ SFC: Robert Stone
  31. ↑ SFC: Sturka
  32. ↑ SFC: Kor
  33. ↑ SFC: Dak'Rah
  34. ↑ SFC: Matt Decker




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