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Historical Events

• January: Starfleet receives permission to procure a successor vessel for the Christopher class light cruiser.

• The planet 522-IV is explored by the surveyor USS Schliemann during a standard pre-colonization assessment mission, where planetwide ruins are discovered by Dr. Helmut Kreutzer.

• The Dauntless (NCC-01) and the Valiant (NCC-04), both rendered un-battleworthy in the Romulan War, are struck from the rolls, along with the remaining Triton heavy destroyers.

• The twelfth and final Almeida class heavy (later multi-mission) cruiser is delivered to Starfleet.

• Bajoran poet Akorem Laan departs the planet on a lightship and goes missing in the vicinity of the Denorios Belt..

Akorem entered the yet unknown wormhole and would stay with the Prophets until 2372.

New Technology

• Mark III Subspace Radio

References

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