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Merlin craft Chronology

 

Merlin production history
2135 Proposal for a class of rapid military craft, which would be jointly built by Human/Galen construction and design teams, to strengthen the ageing Trenoc craft of similar function. The Merlin would arise as the favoured design forwarded
2140 Galen and Human research and construction facilities began testing Merlin components.
2142 The first Merlin craft was launched from Greenwich asteroid orbital facility in the Sol system.
  2145 The first round of major design improvements were proposed, new craft were built with the adjustments. The predominant changes involved the flight systems, a series of advances made in Federation research facilities improved the Merlin’s driver coil efficiency, allowing the ships to travel and manoeuvre faster without out upgrading the powerplant.
2150 In this year the peak production of the Merlin class was observed, the patterns and templates had been circulated to all ship yards, though several dedicated shipyards, particularly in Sol’s asteroid belt, and also in orbital facilities set up in new Galen flight systems made, produced most of the new craft.
2160 Merlin craft returning for maintenance work would have their weapons systems upgraded from this time onwards, the new threat of the Mawa-rei had stimulated the upgrade of the Federation’s relatively small military force. Many ships were refitted with whatever the shipyard had in stock, which led to a great diversity carried aboard these ships.
2175 By this time all of the Merlin craft had been produced, the last and the 15,000th (The most numerous type of warship produced by the Federation by this time)
The Merlin craft rarely played any front line role in the Mawa-rei wars, but they did proved a rapid response defence force in military space, in addition to escorting larger armour groups.
2200 By 2200 a third of the Merlin craft produced had been decommissioned, some 4000 of the remaining craft had been turned to non-military roles (mostly as transports and personnel carriers). The war claimed some 1200 vessels, though less than 400 hundred lives were lost, most of the craft were abandoned because of damage, and only relatively few were destroyed with crew onboard.
Most vessels had been programmed for stellar infall at the point of abandonment, but many damaged craft in Federation space are likely to be recovered and decommissioned. Those craft that had been lost in Magellanic space are unlikely to be recovered, though these craft are most likely to be destroyed before they are recovered by other civilizations.
 

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