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MSS Lotus Station
Maquis Forces- Long Island, NY – MSS LOTUS STATION (Excelsior Class)
EXCELSIOR CLASS VESSEL
Excelsior Class: 2267 - Still in Service
OVERVIEW (Spec Info)
Designation Heavy Cruiser
Excelsior Project First Underway 2267
1st Mass Produced Period 2284-2297
2nd Batch Period 2305-2309
3rd Batch Period 2330-2350 Sporadically
Most Recent Ship Commissioned USS Crazy Horse 2 - 2350 (Construction now ended)
Crew 410
Ships Built / Remain in service 192 / 51(All types. Including 15 activated from reserve/mothball fleet)
TACTICAL
Weapons 7 Phaser Emitters, 3 Photon Launchers, (Stock 200)
Shield Strength 3.4
Offensive Power 34.0
OTHER STATS
Maximum Cruising Speed Warp 7.4
Maximum Transwarp Velocity Warp 9.2 (Equivalent To Contemporary Scale)
Mass 2.35 million metric tons
Length 467M
Decks 21
Nearly 17 years in development the Excelsior Class was a huge success - eventually, and managed to spawn nearly nearly two hundred vessels (in several variations) over a period of some 50 years. Though the class' initiation into the field wasn't finalized until 2284 the Excelsior project had been on the table for almost two decades, and its many years of experimental trials was less than smooth. But when transwarp technology was finally withdrawn after the eventual failure of its application on the first prototype Excelsior, the Excelsior Class heralded a new era in fast, powerful long range cruisers. Being the largest vessel constructed (at the time), it was Starfleet's principal class ship, indeed The Excelsior held the title of flagship for some time. The class' overall success is demonstrated by how many were built over this period, and a second, slightly enhanced variation was introduced in around 2293 with the USS Enterprise-B. A number of the 192 ships built (of all types) are detailed below.
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