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Historical Events

• The Ottawa subclass of the Hercules transports finished receiving significant warp engine upgrades.

• All of the Durance class transports (and related designs) are retired.

• The USS Aurora, USS Mistral and USS Rio Negro (all Helena class cruisers) are deployed to the Tarn conflict (and lost).

• The sixth Poseidon class heavy cruiser clears its box dock, to enter service with the UFP Starfleet.

• The 'corvette' designation for the Hippolyta class vessels is officially changed to 'clipper'.

The year of the official change is conjecture, but most likely occurred after the war.

• The Merchant class heavy transport is introduced by Vickers for commercial use on the fully re-opened Federation cargo routes.

The class being built by Vickers is game-canon, but it did originate with Earth.

• The Vulcan company Panastris unveils the Gadshen ('aurora') liaison craft.

• USS Florida and then USS Endeavor receive a major upgrade from the suspect dilithium foci warp engine to the newly-perfected forcefield focused one. USS Florida is renamed USS Columbia, in honor of the first sister ship lost, and both receive their new NCC numbers.

References

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