2064

Historical Events

• Two of the four Akademik Mstislav Keldysh class cruisers are ordered rapidly modified for interstellar explorations missions.
• Two more Liberty hulls have been launched to orbit for installation of systems.

The source says that six hulls have been launched by early 2064, so the assumption is that a majority of them were launched post-First Contact in 2063.

• Construction crews finish orbital installation of armament on the first Liberty ship in early 2064.
• Survey cruisers SS Defiant and SS Valiant were sent out on twenty-year missions to find the limits of human reach with the new drive. Sending back reports on radio waves only, the ships quickly disappeared into the galactic void, from Earth's point of view. The SS Valiant soon encountered an extrasolar ion storm, within which a spatial fold flung her very close to the galactic barrier.
• The international warp development teams attached a tug onto the hulk of the uncompleted Seneca and towed it to the Valiant construction berth, where warp modification began.
• November: The Bonaventure launches on a three-month shakedown cruise outside the Sol system.

The first 'operational warp sortie' as a long-term shakedown cruise is assumed, but intended to allow for a longer journey to Tau Ceti the next year.

• 05 November: The original Phoenix warp engine received a second, larger crew pod with a launch of a multicorporation recovery team. In this configuration, the ship performed a series of seven test flights, the last of which took it as far out as Saturn.

New Technology

• Size 2 vessels

References

2063

21st century 2060s

2065