U.S.S. PEACECRAFT
EXPLORATION STAR CRUISER
Starfleet Registry NCC-71801-A
The U.S.S. Peacecraft is a Yorktown Class vessel, serving in the role of Exploration Star Cruiser.
Originally a part of the first batch of Odyssey Class units, the Peacecraft officially came into service at the end of 2410, coming out of the Utopia Planitia Shipyards. Under the command of Captain T'Val, the ship performed two long-term exploration assignments, each lasting for six months. In 2412 the ship was assigned at assisting the Federation Diplomatic Corps for a relief and assistance program, combined with the opening of diplomatic channels, with outlying Romulan colonies. The year after saw a drastic change of scenario, with the Peacecraft used as a frontline vessel against the Undine, which also meant being involved in a number of skirmishes and, finally, in the battle of Earth, though in a reserve role. With the end of hostilities with the Undine, the Peacecraft was temporarily assigned to the Delta Exploration Initiative, joining a first round of explorations before being recalled for an upgrade of its EPS systems. Unfortunately, the period of peace wasn't to last longer: in 2414 the sudden Iconian invasion meant that the Peacecraft was once again deployed on the frontline, participating also at the Battle of the Sphere, where it sustained extremely heavy damages in order to cover the retreat. Starfleet deemed it to be of primary importance, during those critical moments, to keep as many ships as possible on the line, thus the Peacecraft was patched up in the quickest way possible and sent once again in the midst of the conflict. The ship barely escaped destruction during the Second Battle of Earth, however loosing a major part of her crew, including Captain T'Val. The recovered hull was moved again to Utopia Planitia, where it laid during the times of the reconstruction effort. After more than one year Starfleet decided to replicate the experience made with the U.S.S. Yorktown, and the Peacecraft was almost rebuilt from scratch as an Odyssey II batch, Yorktown Class. Implementing all the new technologies and systems took a long time, and the Peacecraft finally had her shakedown cruise in 2417, under the new command of Captain Dubois. The Peacecraft became a completely new vessel, built keeping in mind specifically enhanced diplomatic and scientific capabilities that were deemed to be of the utmost importance in a post-war scenario of Starfleet rebuilding itself and focusing once again on its primary mandate of scientific discovery and diplomacy.
The ship saw its first new assignment conducting an exploratory survey in the Volanis Cluster, which also served as a way of testing the new systems. After that, it was assigned to a long-term exploration in the outskirts of the Argus Sector, before being finally reassigned, this time to the 38th Fleet.
ORIGIN & HISTORY OF THE NAME IN STARFLEET RECORDS
The first U.S.S. Peacecraft was a Daedalus Class vessel, NCC-779, built in 2141 and that was kept into service for almost sixty years, when it was finally decommissioned. The name and registry number were subsequently re-used for one a Miranda Class starship, built in 2243 and kept into active service until 2290, when it went lost with all hands in unknown circumstances. A few decades later, in 2331, the next ship on the line was commissioned, as a Cheyenne Class unit, that would be kept into service for the great part of the century, surviving its involvement in both the Cardassian and the Dominion wars. When it was decommissioned a new Peacecraft, this time an Akira Class vessel with the new registry number 29334, was already under way for being launched in 2391. This time, differently from its predecessors, the ship lasted into service far less, being damaged beyond repair during one of the very first skirmishes of the conflict with the Klingons.
The name was given to honor the memory of Helena Peacecraft: still a young diplomat she was one of the key makers of the Armistice of San Francisco which marked the end of World War III in 2053. A staunch opposer to Colonel Green (her speech of 2058 against the genocide he was perpetrating at the time went all around the world, and made her the target of two failed assassination attempts) she later became Minister for Foreign Affairs, and finally President, of the European Hegemony from 2063 to 2078, a period in which she strongly supported the growing movement in favour of Earth unification which followed the First Contact with the Vulcans.
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| Mass | 6,783,200 metric tons |
| Length | 1,041.5 meters |
| Beam | 385.32 meters |
| Draught | 150.84 meters |
| Crew | 2,100 optimal, 900 operational |
| Propulsion | 1 Yoyodyne 47B M/ARC Warp Core 2 Keenser/Pegg Heavy Impulse Engines 2 Inline Flux Secondary Impulse Engines (on saucer section) |
| Sensors | 12 DYN-90 Multi-band Linear Sensor Suites 4 Omniwave Passive Sensor Matrices 1 JAWS Active Directional Sensor Array |
| Armaments | 21 Mk. XIV Phaser Arrays 6 Variable-Payload Torpedo Launchers 3 Yoyodyne 960-B Unified Field Emitter Arrays |