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Historical Events

• USS Lovell is destroyed by the Shedai in the Taurus Reach region.

• The Strider class courier/scout is fully retired, once again.

Year is conjecture, but it is more than a decade following re-activation.

• The second vessel of the Ahaw Kin reconnaissance corvette subclass (of Ariadne patrol corvette) enters service.

The year of production is mostly conjecture.

• Select vessels of the Ariadne class (and its subclasses) start receiving transporter upgrades.

• Deliberately mercantile transports are intended to be be built and fitted with the LN-23 early linear warp engine this year, but the proposal is shelved due to severe issues with the engines.

• The specialized small cargo pods (of the S Type) are retired.

• USS Woden (NCC-G325, Wanda class) is destroyed in a friendly fire incident.

• The last of the Richter class cruisers and Heston class battle cruisers are decommissioned.

• The most devastating and public loss of an Icarus class ship was that of USS Golden Hind (NCC-1142), which misjudged a warp approach and slammed into Devon, blasting a huge crater in the landscape and killing thousands by direct and secondary shockwave and radiation effects.

• Following the Golden Hind tragedy, Starfleet orders the idling of all ships equipped with the PB-27 nacelle; recall orders were issued across the operating theater.

New Technology

• Mark 6 Warp Nacelles

• Mark 6A Warp Nacelles

• Mark 6B1 Warp Nacelles

• Class 8 Lateral sensors

• Antimatter Mine

References

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