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In 2411, Recent efforts to revitalize an old set of plans for the Ambassador class yielded the Narendra-class Support cruiser. While the Narendra performed well during its initial deployment, the Advanced Starship Development Board felt the design’s use of early-24th century assumptions put it at a bit of a disadvantage compared to newer cruisers. Starfleet still desperately needed more medium-sized units to backfill its long-range exploration and support needs, and a medium-tonnage cruiser meant more ships could be built and crewed faster. Starfleet engineers took the lessons learned from the Narendra and iterated on them in a new cruiser design, the U.S.S. Horatio (NX-90600). The Horatio is a very flexible long-range exploration and support platform meant to fill the gap of mid-size units that Starfleet needs to fulfill its various mandates inside Federation territory and beyond. Also, Starfleet Operations began to "color-codeing" the hulls of each vessel based on the specialty. This new series of vessels had one of the most diverse crews in Starfleet's history- fewer than 10% of the crew were human.

Sorthly after the destruction of the USS Hood (NCC-1703-E) at the Battle of Empersa, Captian Jurias Odan, his survivng officers and crew where reassigned to the the USS Discovery (NCC-1798-C) - a newly comissioned Horatio-Class Exploration & Science Vessel. But after the surprise ambush of rebel Klingons on the USS Hofmann (NCC-93206), Captain Odan was granted accsess to the classified data regarding the mycelial network from Starfleet Intellagance after a mycelial-subspace distortion appiered in the Andor system. At the behest of his Chief Science Officer - Commander T'Krel, Odan was given autherization to utilize the origional research of the Crossfeild-Class USS Discovery (NCC-1031), however Admiral T'Nae ordered Odan and his crew not to recreate the Spore Drive. Yet the Discovery was allwed to use Quantom Slipstream and Transwarp Drives.

Description
In 2411, Recent efforts to revitalize an old set of plans for the Ambassador class yielded the Narendra-class Support cruiser. While the Narendra performed well during its initial deployment, the Advanced Starship Development Board felt the design’s use of early-24th century assumptions put it at a bit of a disadvantage compared to newer cruisers. Starfleet still desperately needed more medium-sized units to backfill its long-range exploration and support needs, and a medium-tonnage cruiser meant more ships could be built and crewed faster. Starfleet engineers took the lessons learned from the Narendra and iterated on them in a new cruiser design, the U.S.S. Horatio (NX-90600). The Horatio is a very flexible long-range exploration and support platform meant to fill the gap of mid-size units that Starfleet needs to fulfill its various mandates inside Federation territory and beyond. Also, Starfleet Operations began to "color-codeing" the hulls of each vessel based on the specialty. This new series of vessels had one of the most diverse crews in Starfleet's history- fewer than 10% of the crew were human.

Sorthly after the destruction of the USS Hood (NCC-1703-E) at the Battle of Empersa, Captian Jurias Odan, his survivng officers and crew where reassigned to the the USS Discovery (NCC-1798-C) - a newly comissioned Horatio-Class Exploration & Science Vessel. But after the surprise ambush of rebel Klingons on the USS Hofmann (NCC-93206), Captain Odan was granted accsess to the classified data regarding the mycelial network from Starfleet Intellagance after a mycelial-subspace distortion appiered in the Andor system. At the behest of his Chief Science Officer - Commander T'Krel, Odan was given autherization to utilize the origional research of the Crossfeild-Class USS Discovery (NCC-1031), however Admiral T'Nae ordered Odan and his crew not to recreate the Spore Drive. Yet the Discovery was allwed to use Quantom Slipstream and Transwarp Drives.