marques of the

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Marques of the Federation Fleet

Although most of the craft in Federation are based on shared design templates, there still exists recognition of different marques in the Federation Fleet, some particular shipyards are renowned for producing excellent science vessels, others are known for reliability and durability. Although ships are built from templates, they are all still unique, these differences stem at the smaller scales of construction, so that although they may share the same massive components, such as engines and reactors, the smaller equipment will be coordinated by the people on the construction yard. Though these differences do not greatly make the models different, the ideas of the designers and builders can be allowed to experiment, and these new philosophies of design incorporated into the next line of models. The attributes of certain marques are listed below.

The different races in the Federation are accredited with certain ship building attributes, the below lists these attributes where construction facilities are predominantly of some particular race.

Ships made in Trenoc construction facilities.

The Trenoc have had the most experience in space of all the Federation’s races, their craft have been attributed with good build quality, reliability and resilience. Though some of these attributes are arguable, the Trenoc working on these construction yards have often been in the business for more than one generation, and these yards are often very efficient. The smaller facilities of the Trenoc often specialise in a method of refitting seldom used elsewhere in the Federation. If a relatively sophisticated craft is being broken down, and other smaller craft are being refitted or built, then some of the components of that ship are incorporated into these new craft whether or not they are part of the design template. This idea is growing favour in the Federation as it produces hybrid vehicles in the smaller classes, often with quite large differences in basic components to the design template. Though these bodge jobs would pose difficulty for some manufacturers, especially in getting the reliability and the performance parameters, the Trenoc can modify templates almost seamlessly to create these new vehicles.

Ships made in Panatrak construction facilities.

Nearly as experienced as the Trenoc, and at a certain natural advantage of being avian, Panatrak designers and their shipyards are credited with giving models added manoeuvrability and efficiency in flight systems, they are also accredited with being more luxuriant and aesthetically pleasing. The later statements are highly arguable, for Panatrak engineers are sticklers for getting exact parameters and rarely consider looks, these attributes are possibly more based on Panatrak crews who do often try to improve their working environment. Panatrak construction yards are common in flight systems, and are intimately associated with modification of prototypes.

Ships made in Galen construction facilities

The Galen are recognised to be perhaps one of the most inspired races in the Federation, and certainly always at the edge of technical development. The ships they produce reflect this, though they are not accredited with perhaps the reliability or the exacting parameters of the other races shipyards, they are well known for a rugged flexibility and resilience, and like the Trenoc’s ships, containing equipment not found on the templates. Though they build there ships to Federation standards, the Galen tend to stick additional equipment onboard, as well as prototype and state of the art instruments and engines, the result is a ship with the potential for greatly extended abilities but with its own set of unique behaviour, that although perhaps unreliable at first, the crew will adapt to and adjust for. The Galen shipyards are perhaps best recognised for their excellent refit services, even if it takes a bit of work getting these extras working.

Ships made in Human Facilities.

Humans though relatively new at ship building, and certainly are not recognised with the reliability and perfection of the Trenoc shipyards, are however recognised for certain better attributes. The craft are recognised for their technological excellence, matching the new facilities built for their construction, though not as efficient or rapid at production Human shipyards are accredited with a certain ingenuity, and recognised for elegance and efficiency in their designs.

Ships made in race non-dominated shipyards

These tend to be the larger shipyards and they are recognised for high efficiency and good quality of work, other attributes of the produced craft depend on the construction team and specialists involved, which roughly follow the rules above for races, though it would be more accurate to describe their attributes from the ‘schools’ the team draws upon, if the team has been working for a long time in Trenoc construction yards, or has a Trenoc mentor, then they will inherit these qualities.

Ships who have been designed and constructed with a Pholi containing team

Though the Pholi seem only to take an almost pedestrian role in modern Federation construction facilities, the input they do make is often greatly insightful, and if a ship has been constructed by some unusually hands on Pholi then the crew often discover little changes in the design template that give an unexpected benefit. It is often jokingly remarked that any Pholi fitted component will never fail, or break, however this is not entirely unfounded, especially when it comes to their excellence at computer architecture.

Special Marques in the Federation Fleet

Particular construction facilities are also accredited with particular attributes, these tend to originate in the design teams that have been working their for a long time, and as such have developed a way of doing things that generate favourable results.

Crucible/Vishniac craft

Both of these particular marques come from construction facilities on Mars (sol system), and are well known for their technical excellence. The craft produced at these two sites tend to be state of the art and the pinnacle of design for those templates. The craft are often fitted above and beyond the requirements of the templates. This excellence does not originate in good construction facilities, but because these facilities have been producing state of the art custom craft since they were founded. This working philosophy of treating each individual craft as a one off, has produced these excellent craft. Of the marques recognised in the Federation these twin sites merit one of the highest positions.

Forge Craft

Forge is a major ship construction system, and contributes a large percentage of all constructed Federation craft. The large industry and relatively new construction facilities combined with the best of the old construction teams give craft from these shipyards a good reputation of problem free and reliable craft.

Ex Panatrak Flight test facilities

Many of the prototypes testing facilities in flight systems go on produce vehicles. Though these production facilities are small they have often accumulated the most experienced and best personnel. For a similar reason as to why the Crucible and Vishniac craft are revered, ex-testing facilities are also well known for producing excellent craft. The Panatrak experts on these bases often push the drive systems to their greatest efficiency getting the most out of the hardware, rather than the expected parameters, there is still a feeling for craftsmanship. Particularly well-known facilities of this type include those in the Patinar system (often described by the unflattering navigation description, of Panatrak Production and Test Facility [PPTF] followed by their number.

Other previous test facilities include the older Vela construction yards, and the recently decommissioned military test yards in the Kolisiman system.

Construction yards of the Athene system

Athene represents a gathering of what makes the Federation Great, this is reflected in the ship construction in this system. Athene is also recognised for holding perhaps the most important centres for star ship design and ship technologies research, and unsurprisingly this has fed its way into the test and construction facilities of this system. Any new models, or prototypes are reckoned to be reliable and without problems if it has spent a lot of time in one of the research facilities here, in fact it is almost a pre-requisite that a new model must be built and tested in this system before it is released for general production.