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Historical Events
- The last unmodified Texas class light cruisers are retired en masse.[2]
- The last B5 HSA(P/C)-20 'Chippewa' heavy atmospheric shuttles are withdrawn from service.[3]
- The last Jidai subclass reconnaissance cruiser is lost to enemy action.[4]
- The Pytheas exploratory cruiser subclass starts receiving an upgrade.[4]
- The last of the Burke, Aldrin and Magellan subclass frigates (and scout cruisers) receive a transporter system upgrade.[5]
- USS Iblis (NCC-528, Siva Flight II destroyer) hits the battle cruiser USS Newton (NCC-3822, Proxima battle cruiser) with her navigational deflector, killing 23 aboard the latter ship.[6]
- Battle cruiser USS Proxima (NCC-1100) enters drydock to receive a propulsive upgrade, wherein the two large nacelles are replaced by two pairs of longer ones.[7]
- The Richter class cruisers and Heston class battle cruisers enter an upgrade period, to include new weapon systems.[8]
- The Icarus and Ashanti class battle cruisers and Apache class heavy destroyers begin a refit period.[9]
- The Mojave subclass light cruisers begin to receive weapons upgrades.[10]
- USS Byrd (first of her class) returns to New Aberdeen upon the conclusion of her 25-year galactic survey voyage and enters a 2-year overhaul period.[11]
- USS Dauntless (NCC-1697, Pyotr Velikiy support cruiser) is badly damaged in combat at Xarant, retires to Starbase 7 for repairs.[12]
- The last of the G1 HSI(U)-1 'Comet' heavy warp shuttles is removed from Star Fleet service.[13]
- The Capella class surveyor / supply ships are refitted with phasers.[14]
- Construction of the final Paladin subclass destroyer is completed.[15]
- Construction of the final Cochrane class colonizer (of the first batch) is completed.[16]
- USS Gaikos (NCC-2740, Loknar frigate) evacuates 400 people from a failed terraforming outpost from under severe tectonic trouble.[17]
- Aakenn and Westminster heavy transports enter the yards for a weapons upgrade.[18]
- The final Finch subclass buoy tender is completed.[19]
- The Whirlwind assault ship class gets an upgrade yard period.[20]
- The Hephaestus subclass tender enters production.[21]
- Construction is completed on the final Coronado subclass shuttlecarrier.[22]
- Construction starts on the first Mo'Kal class light fleet tug.[23]
- Construction of the Okinawa light frigate class begins.[24]
- This presumably occurred largely with the help of the Humans that arrived around 2205.
- Occurred the same year they achieved warp capability, per Memory Alpha.
- The second series of each of the three subclasses of the Mission class enters production.[26]
- Early: Two secondary mission roles for a new (support) destroyer design are identified: rapid reaction signals intelligence and buoy tending. The former will be discarded, in favor of this need being met by existing designs; the latter forms the basis for the Derf class.[27]
- Early: Modifications are performed on a surplus Larson spaceframe, for the purpose of developing a destroyer/buoy tender design.[27]
- Early: Construction begins on the first Achernar export heavy cruiser.[28]
- Late: The USS Sverdlov (NCC-1238, formerly Coventry strike frigate) re-sails as USS Soyuz (survey frigate).[29]
New Technology
References
- ↑ Memory Beta: "Arkenite"
- ↑ Guide: Texas
- ↑ Guide: Class B5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guide: Ranger
- ↑ Guide: Burke
- ↑ Guide: Syracuse
- ↑ Guide: Proxima
- ↑ Guide: Richter/Heston
- ↑ Guide: Icarus/Ashanti/Apache
- ↑ Guide: Texas refit
- ↑ Guide: Byrd
- ↑ Guide: Pyotr Velikiy
- ↑ Guide: Class G1
- ↑ Guide: Capella
- ↑ Guide: Nelson
- ↑ Guide: Cochrane
- ↑ Guide: Loknar
- ↑ Guide: Aakenn
- ↑ Guide: Grayson
- ↑ Guide: Whirlwind
- ↑ Guide: Ohio
- ↑ Guide: Santee
- ↑ Guide: Mo'Kal
- ↑ Guide: Okinawa
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 SFC canon
- ↑ Guide: Mission
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Guide: Derf
- ↑ Guide: Achernar
- ↑ Guide: Soyuz
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