Charleston class: Difference between revisions

The first mass-produced Human spacecraft to take advantage of [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Zefram_Cochrane Zefram Cochrane]'s discovery of warp flight, the ''Charleston'' class Cruiser was, by modern standards, a small, cramped, technologically primitive vessel. But in its own time it was considered a marvel, a scientific breakthrough of perspective-shattering proportions. Ever curious and unstoppable, Humans piled into ''Charleston''s and set out to explore the universe around them, sometimes discovering new life and new civilizations, at other times meeting disaster and destruction.

*'''SS Charleston''', prototype, created by the NovaStar corporation of the United States of America, explored the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Sol Sol system] (2064);

*'''SS Valiant''', launched by the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/European_Hegemony European Hegemony], used temporary wormhole to reach space near [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Galactic_barrier Galactic Barrier], swept into Barrier by a magnetic storm too strong for its impulse engines to cope with, destroyed by Captain Francois Serverin de Compiegne after the energies of the Barrier caused several of his crew to develop dangerously powerful psionic abilities (2065);

*'''SS Columbus''', launched by the United States of America, explored the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Sol Sol system] (2064-65);

*'''SS Pioneer''', launched by the United States of America, first vessel to survey the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Alpha_Centauri_system Alpha Centauri] system (2066).

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