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Historical Events
- The final Advance class battle cruiser is stricken from Star Fleet's registry.[1]
- The last of the Keppler sub-class of Ptolemy fleet tug/tenders are completed.[2]
- USS Texas, the first of the final 26 remaining Texas class light cruisers to receive overhauls, is completed, as a new Texas (II) class light cruiser.[3]
- The ships of the three Rochester sub-classes complete the refits.[4]
- The final Guardian class heavy escort is decommissioned.[5]
- Construction starts on the Paladin subclass destroyer.[6]
- USS New America (NCC-2706, Loknar frigate) tractors to safety a Federation starliner that had suffered an impulse drive malfunction on approach of Procyon and was in danger of plunging into the chromosphere of the star with 400 people aboard.[7]
- USS Sverdlov (NCC-1238, Coventry strike frigate) fails to return from a test run of the new PB-51 series engines.[8][9]
- In reality, this was a black op to secure the Sverdlov for Star Fleet Intelligence in development as an observation ship, USS Soyuz. The truth behind the "loss" would be declassified in the 2290s.
- The funding of future Santee and Coronado shuttlecarrier is interrupted.[10]
- The Princeton subclass shuttlecarrier program is canceled.[10]
- The final Santee shuttlecarrier is completed.[10]
- The final Mustang class corvette is completed.[11]
- Star Fleet unveils the New Light Frigate initiative, creating a light frigate design based off the export versions of the Procyon corvettes.[12]
- A concerted effort is made to save the megesti, an energy-hungry spaceborne species endemic to the Algol system.[13]
- In lieu of an impulse or subimpulse fightercraft of similarly compact dimensions to the Benares-type orbital hoppers, a gunship version of that craft enters Star Fleet service (onboard Coronado class through-deck cruisers).[14]
- Star Fleet decides to draw up a standard small, general purpose work pod with modular tool packs.[15]
- Early: The Hopi large survey cruiser enters service with Star Fleet.[16]
- June: USS Inuit (NCC-747, Cahuya survey cruiser) is lost in the Azha system to consumption by a spaceborne lifeform of a type common in the region (though, at the time, it was presumed to be due to an encounter with Klingons).[17][18]
New Technology
References
- ↑ Guide: Horizon/Advance
- ↑ Guide: Ptolemy
- ↑ Guide: Texas refit
- ↑ Guide: Rochester
- ↑ Guide: Guardian
- ↑ Guide: Nelson
- ↑ Guide: Loknar
- ↑ Guide: Coventry
- ↑ Guide: Soyuz
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Guide: Santee
- ↑ Guide: Mustang
- ↑ Guide: Okinawa
- ↑ Guide: Burke
- ↑ Guide: Benares
- ↑ Guide: Type 10 (pod)
- ↑ Guide: Hopi
- ↑ Guide: Venture
- ↑ Guide: Cahuya
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