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:

• Earth Fleet - starting with the transition from the UESF to the UFP Star Fleet in 2161, Earth designated their ships with EFS.

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

• Federation Star Fleet - when founded in 2161 the UFP Star Fleet designated vessels as USS, short for United Star Ship

• International Space Agency (ISA) - same as the ESA, except for rescue/regulatory cutters which are preceded by IRC, for either ISA Rescue Cutter or ISA Regulatory Cutter

• ISA/NASA - Joint interplanetary missions used USNS, for United Survey and Navigation Ship

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

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

• United Earth Starfleet (UESF) - starting with its founding in 2133, Starfleet re-designated all vessels as UESS, for United Earth Space Ship

• United Earth Stellar Navy (UESN) - UES, for United Earth Ship

• United States Air Force (USAF) - codes, such as 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, for Alliance of Western States Ship