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Historical Events

• January 21st: The surviving crew of USS Cavalier (ND-626, Cavalry class), is found alive and in good health by USS Lorelei (Helena class). Their recovery is a long-awaited positive media event in the middle of the postwar atmosphere of disillusionment, ambiguity and anxiety.

• A conflict erupts with the Tarn, when the USS Constitution is attacked and over 200 crew are killed.

The attack on the Constitution as the opening act is presumed.

• The USS Verdun and USS Constantine, both Messier class, are pressed to duty against the Tarn. Both disappear: the Constantine without a trace and the Verdun until 2366.

• The last Messier to be retired, USS Braxton (CA-195), is on her way to be preserved in the recently founded Starfleet Museum when her warp drive system creates a catastrophic asymmetry and tears the ship into pieces. The skeleton crew of fifteen is killed instantly.

• The Ottawa subclass of the Hercules transports starts to receive significant warp engine upgrades.

• The last Djartanna light destroyers are removed from active service and mothballed, never transferred to the UFP Starfleet register.

• The Marshall heavy destroyers are assigned to the defense duties previously held by the Djartanna light destroyers.

• Eighteen of the Doppler class scout ships start to receive forcefield generators (as well as NCC numbers); some of the remaining others are sold to allied navies.

This started after 2161.

• The fifth Poseidon class heavy cruiser clears its box dock, to enter service with the UFP Starfleet.

• Earth Councillor Dannon assassinated while making a pacifist speech on Federation grounds in San Francisco.

New Technology

• Magnusson class laser
• Size 3 warp vessels
• Mark IV Industrial Fabrication Unit
• Mark 3 Warp Nacelles
• Mark 3A Warp Nacelles
• Mark 3B Warp Nacelles
• Type 4A Main Impulse Engine
• Mark IV Long Range Sensors
• Class 5 Long Range Strength Package
• Class 4 Navigational sensors
• Class IV probe

References

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