2290s

Summary

• Over 100 buoy tenders are active.

• Continuing Okinawa light frigate operations in this decade is an unexpected bonus.

• The remaining ground-based Benares-type hoppers serve on their last battlefields.

• Direct deployment of hoppers to battlefields is deemed too risky in the threat environment already, with increasing medium range phaser activity.

• Late: Modern heavy towing assets begin to glide out of construction docks.

Years

• 2290
• 2291
• 2292
• 2293
• 2294
• 2295
• 2296
• 2297
• 2298
• 2299

Events

• By: Several of the Mo'Kal class light fleet tugs have been scrapped for fatigue or damage accrued, six destroyed in action, and one relegated to training duty.

• The Masterson heavy endurance cutters (formerly Drexler class frigates) are retired from Federation Transit Authority.

• Star Fleet dares (again) to field lightly armed deep space surveyors.

• Darwin light surveyors complete a thorough core space resource mapping, ending Star Fleet’s need for light prospecting vehicles.

• Early decade: The Valkyr and Titan sub-class shuttlecarriers are ordered scrapped; only Hypsipyle (NCC-444) of Valkyr class and the Hamilton (NCC-452) of Titan class are left, as orbital storage facilities at the Qualor II fleet depot.

• Early decade: The remaining Flagstaff sub-class scout drones are upgraded with onboard astrophysics expert AIs and modern subspace sensors.

• After 2293: Star Fleet develops the replacement for the Tavares light transport, the Deneva class, after the Khitomer peace.

• Mid-decade: The "modern" Larson class destroyer (Mk VII) is relegated to reserves, per Khitomer treaty cutbacks.

• Mid-decade: The official (and true) telling of the "loss" of the USS Sverdlov (NCC-1238, Coventry strike frigate) is disclosed.

References

2280s

Category:Timeline 23rd century

2300s