2246 – Cygnus I

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The Cygnus Class entered service in 2246 as a Command Courier version of the highly successful Saladin/Hermes class. The Intention was that an Admiral could use the ship as a sector command post. To this end the design was given the FWC-1 warp drive, giving it more power than its half sisters, the weapons were entirely laser based to make more room for the Admiral’s facilities and command centre.

In 2250, the USS Columbia was converted to a more heavily armed configuration as an experiment to evaluate the benefits of an FWC-1 powered heavy destroyer type. These trials amounted to nothing, but the Columbia was left in this configuration, and was assigned as a Destroyer Leader to a flotilla of Saladins in the Klingon Border Area.

The outbreak of the Four Years War saw a major change in Starfleer Operational Procedure, a number of the Cygnus class ships were involved in near disasters in 2252, as operating independently without escorts as they had been designed to do made them tempting targets. In a fleet role the additional speed of the Cygnus was wasted, so it was ordered to convert the other 8 mk1 vessels to mk2 standards.

  • Class:VIII
  • Year:2246
  • Ship Source:Starfleet Technical Manual
  • Ship Datasheet:Download PDF

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2248 – V2 Hathos (Hunter)

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The V-2 Class, first encountered by Project Grey Ghost, is believed to have been built for research missions, much like the Federation research cruisers are.  Reportedly, spacious laboratory facilities and shuttlebays for cargo storage make this ship an oddity in the Romulan navy.  Several recent combat encounters with the Klingons and forces to the coreward have proved the vessel to be undergunned and unsuitable for combat.

Several attempts were made to up-gun the ship, with the last being the introduction of the Type 5, approximately Stardate 2/00.  This version is reported to carry a small plasma weapon and improved impulse drive system.  Even so, the V-2 did not prove popular, and has been replaced by the V-5 and V-6 cruisers.

Of the approximately 70 Hunters built, about half are reported to be in reserve fleets and about 20 are reportedly working as research vessels for private firms.  This vessel has not yet been scanned at close range, and plans given are highly speculative.  The ship is named from the RomuIan hathos (hunter), likely in reference to its mission in the Exploration Division.