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Historical Events

• The SS Valiant's recorder-marker is recovered and the fate of the missing vessel is realized.

• The final vessel of the second production run of the Allowat Sakima subclass (of the Ariadne) patrol corvette is completed.

The years of production are mostly conjecture.

• Star Fleet orders the decommissioning of the Baton Rouge heavy cruiser and Nordenskiöld light cruisers. (Only 2 Nordenskiölds are immediately struck by this order.)

The decommissions would spread out and continue until completion in 2277.

• USS Antares (NCC-F501, Sherman light transport) is destroyed by the metahuman powers of a young crash survivor.

• One of the two mothballed, incomplete Amchitka light cruiser hulls, the pre-Wotan, is converted into a proof-of-concept testbed (NX-1390) for a ‘defensive monitor’ class.

• USS Napoleon (NX-1384) is commissioned as a prototype cruiser-carrier.

The concept would be canceled, as a result of testing of the prototype.

• USS Smith (Byrd galactic survey cruiser) launches on her second galactic survey voyage.

• The final Victory subclass heavy cruiser (USS Rivoli, NCC-1765) is completed.

The Rivoli as the named ship is game-canon.

• Klingon ships end a series of frequent raids into UFP territory.

• Star Fleet adopts a new uniform.

• The period of time that began in 2246, with very little direct, coordinated military action against Klingon forces, ends.

• The Surya subclass heavy frigates begin receiving upgrades.

• USS Bombay (NCC-1838, Miranda heavy frigate) is lost on a deep-space assignment.

• The original set of Grayson class buoy tenders sent to the reserves are now mothballed.

• The first set of Finch subclass buoy tenders are transferred to the reserves.

• The Coventry class strike frigates and the Benning subclass heavy frigates receive a weapons upgrade.

• Hopi large survey cruiser USS Kanesatake is damaged in an engagement with Talarians, resulting in an unidentified warp imbalance that tears the ship to pieces ten days later.

• USS Collins (NCC-1839, Soyuz survey frigate) suffers an apparent reactor failure, forcing her to abort her mission and accept personnel rescue, before her complete destruction.

• Following the earlier loss of USS Collins, the other two ships are restricted to warp 6.

• Okinawa light frigate USS Great Lakes (NCC-1281) is re-commissioned as USS R.L. Stevenson.

The year is arbitrarily decided.

• Star Fleet discovers a comet, just outside the system, on a trajectory for Trillius Prime.

• Star Fleet’s commitment to the exploratory mission begins to wane.

Lack of interest is still "beginning" into the next year (2266).

• Construction of the first flight of Bader class exploratory cruisers concludes. All vessels—in service and under assembly—start being upgraded as Flights II.

• USS Sphinx (NCC-D853, Centaurus class) is sabotaged by unidentified foreign operatives; her entire crew is killed, due to life support shutdown.

• Star Fleet starts decommissioning Mk VI Solar class cutters, as the more capable Epsilons are delivered.

• Early: Two dreadnoughts of indigenous construct and design are nearing completion at Deneb Alpha V.

• Mid: "Defenders" USS Deneb (NCC-2002) and USS Inaieu (NCC-2003) are commissioned, with Star Fleet admirals Fitzpatrick and Sha’av in attendance. The ships operate under local defense force control, ceding to Star Fleet authority in fleet actions.

• Late: The final Bonhomme Richard Type 2 heavy cruiser (USS Enterprise, NCC-1701) undergoes conversion to the Constitution Flight III configuration.

New Technology

• Mark 4.7 Warp Nacelles

• Mark 4.71 Warp Nacelles

• Mark 5.7A Warp Nacelles

• Class 8 Navigational sensors

References

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