2261

Historical Events

• The Memory Alpha planetoid is selected, as an event during the Centennial Survey, for all the archives of the UFP's cultural and scientific knowledge. The eight-year development of the project begins.

• The plight of Uzor becomes apparent to the people of Bolarus IX: it would be uninhabitable in less than a decade. Solar instability threatens to wipe out the entire Uzor system.

Background material is per the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, Book 7: Worlds. The date of this awareness is game-canon.

• USS Skagerrak (NCC-G504, Bering class) is lost to 'therspace', after rescuing a Tellarite crew.

• After final funding for the last 26 vessels of the Larson class destroyers is procured, destroyer funds are redirected to experiments intended to address the inherent shortcomings of the single-nacelled configuration of the Syracuse family class.

• The Pershing subclass (of the Sherman class) cargo drone enters service with Starfleet.

• USS Virgo (NCC-1572, Taurus sub-class) is lost from unknown causes while scouting in the direction of Zeta Persei.

• USS Smith (Byrd class galactic survey cruiser) begins a round of experimental modifications, to become a model of the cruiser-carrier concept.

New Technology

• Type 6 Disrupters

• Class Alpha Disrupter Targeting System

• Class Alpha Torpedo Targeting System

References

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