2280s
Summary
Years
Events
- Though capital ship forces adequately cover the main space lanes, the threat of small, cloaked commerce raiders suddenly emerges.[1]
- All civilian ships of the Vanguard-Ganymede subclass have been scrapped before this decade.[2]
- Many civilian Merchant class heavy transports are retired by this decade.[3]
- Weapon systems defined as 'heavy' (per the 2271 weapons classification system) first enter service.[4]
- Icarus and Ashanti class battle cruisers start being selected for retirement; some are put to use as engineering testbeds for the modern battle cruisers.[5]
- All the old light cruisers, from Amchitka to Kearsarge to the Texas refits, have been disarmed and donated forward, sold for scrap, or converted to support vessels of various sorts. The light cruiser force has shrunk by more than 60 % in a matter of a decade.[6]
References
| 2270s | Category:Timeline 23rd century |
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