USS Ojai a California class rapid response vessel, I even named its shuttles Topatopa, Nordhoff and Sespe
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Lol, Players in the last campaign ran into the California Class USS Santa Cruz, that had a shuttle called Eucalyptus that exploded expectantly when it caught on fire. Two of my players caught the reference.
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Ok, I’ll bite. What’s the reference? (Yes, I’m being too lazy to google it myself, I admit it.) 
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Eucalyptus trees can explode when they catch on fire. The California Blue Gum Eucalyptus is notorious for this feature. The tree is filled with an oil that smells great but is also highly volatile. Eucalyptus bark makes great kindling and it sheds it’s bark every year creating piles of the stuff at it’s base.
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The main Danube shuttle of my players group is nicknamed BP1. It stands for Boat People 1 configured for passenger transport and it’s often overcrowded for evacuations purposes.
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USS Casawary is a Cygnus-class Scout, currently assigned to Starbase 10 in the Triangle in 2270. Crew:16
Excerpt from Jaynz Ships of the Starfleet: 2270
Cygnus-class II Scout
At the end of the Four Years War, Starfleet scrambled to replace the loses that they had suffered. Even with most of the shipyards in the Federation fully engaged with Starfleet contracts, engine and weapon construction was rapidly outpacing new hull construction. A plan was developed to rapidly put those engine and weapons into use.
Older ship hulls were pulled out of mothballs and refitted with the surplus equipment being produced. Many older Starfleet classes were given a new life after the war. One such class was the Cygnus-class Scout.
Originally laid down in 2225, the Cygnus was designed to be a fast, lightly-armed scout, able to rapidly deploy to anywhere in the Federation to gather data with it’s oversized sensors. They were designed to outrun anything they could not out fight. The Cygnus-class vessels served for 23 years, until the development of the linear warp made refitting them uneconomical. Their hulls were placed in long-term storage at Fleet Depot 10A around Encidas 3.
Refitted with modern engines, weapons, defenses, and a new sensor suite that was identical to that being placed in the new Constitution-class Heavy Cruisers, the Cygnus was once more able to fulfill her designed role in a more dangerous galaxy.
Cassawary and her sister ship Corvid:
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Love the reference! 
Was so happy when I saw a brief mission in the free Stations mission brief PDF with the name of our ship in it. I have to play it with my players, no way to avoid it!
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The mission was more tricky because they were either working on the other ship when it was there or in their ship when it disappeared planning for the next appearance knowing that in three days they will be at the nebula because my betazoid counselor had made a link. The final scene 3 days after, they were at thé nebula, they have already used the tractor beam in the past now they do it in thé "future/present/past depending of the point of view. I had planned to justify the damage on the other ship but the tactical officer made a 20 re-roll 20 so no need to. They also were able to save the presumed dead of the first scene damage with an heroic teleportation roll
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For the 23rd Century we are using the good old USS Lexington…same ship as the Living Campaign going from 2270-2272.
For the 24th Century, I’m giving my players a choice depending on the start date they pick.
2371: The USS Sovereign (NCC-73811) is the prototype for the largest class to emerge from the Advanced Starship Design Bureau, the big brother to the Akira, Defiant, Luna, Steamrunner, and Saber classes. These late 2360s-early 2370s designs were built with the best available science facilities and computer systems for deep space exploration, but also with heavier armament than their predecessors based on the lessons learned from Wolf 359. The Sovereign’s first assignment is to cruise from Hephaestus Station near the Orion border, then onward through Klingon space to the Shackleton Expanse, an unexplored region of the Beta Quadrant full of anomalies and unusual phenomena, where the joint Federation-Klingon outpost of Narendra Station is up and running. Officially, her mission is to render humanitarian aid and explore the Shackleton Expanse as the flagship of the small 20th Fleet based at Narendra Station. Unofficially, the Sovereign is here to show the flag to the Klingons, reminding them that the Federation is a powerful and honorable ally, and would be very dangerous as a foe.
2374: IKS qajunpaQ (Vor’cha class) & USS Brooklyn (Excelsior class)
The USS Brooklyn (NCC-2001) has already seen more than her fair share of sorrows in the Dominion War. Pulled from training duty when the war began, half the crew was killed in the Battle of Tyra and the ship crippled before even having the chance to fire a shot. Then during repairs, every officer then ranking Lieutenant or higher and every Chief petty officer was pulled off the Brooklyn to meet the desperate need for experienced staff as Starfleet pressed every space worthy ship into service. Captain Ironsides, promoted to Rear Admiral, was assassinated by a changeling infiltrator on his way to take command of the 11th Fleet. Although the ship has been repaired and replacement personnel assigned, the crew is demoralized and very much in need of some victories.
IKS qajunpaQ (English: Courageous) is the flagship of the House of Qolar, a minor house known as traditionalists fiercely loyal to the Emperor and skeptical of Gowron, and was the honor guard for Emperor Kahless II since he ascended the throne. She was carrying the Emperor on a goodwill tour of Federation space to shore up the reinstated Khitomer Accords when the Dominion War broke out, and was assigned to frontline service after returning the Emperor to Boreth. Her crew, along with many of Qolar’s troops, is often mocked by Gowron’s men for being old, crotchety, and punctilious; and while their skills may be rusty from having been held out of wars with the Cardassians and Federation, they take personal honor and duty to House and Empire very seriously and are eager to prove themselves against the Dominion once they finally get into combat.
2387: Narendra Station
Positioned near the Romulan Neutral Zone at the edge of the Shackleton Expanse, Narendra Station is Starfleet’s first response and unofficial mediator between various factions vying for control of what’s left of the former Romulan Star Empire. The crew has at its disposal 4 Danube-class runabouts and 2 Qo’toch heavy fighters for transport and defense, as well as coordinating the small Federation-Klingon 20th Fleet which patrols and explores the Shackleton Expanse. A Saber or Defiant class starship might be assigned to Narendra Station as its guard ship, as the Defiant was to DS9, but nothing is final as yet.
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I’m also running the Lexington at present as part of the C23 part of the Shackleton campaign (which is basically the old Living Campaign). The current CO was the executive officer to Commodore Wesley in the M5 wargames, and the ship is fresh out of repairs following that incident. There are occasional systems glitches, and some of the more superstitious crew members are chasing an alleged haunting in engineering*.
We’re nearing the first season finale, and a time jump to the 2370s. The players have already decided they want the Nebula-class Lexington that’s referenced in canon, and the CO will be the latest host of the Adred symbiont serving as conn officer in 2269…
*Incidentally, I highly recommend adding some non-system quirks like this - it’s driving the chief engineer nuts (Waves at @LucasCunningham 
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@Astronut the glitches are not a problem anymore, I now have to skin that Archer-Class Captain! 
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My campaign is set to begin in October, and its starship is the USS Challenger.
Since I was a little kid, I wanted to have my own fictional starship. Now that I’m semi-retired, I hired a designer named Bill Krause to make me a 3D model so I could manipulate its positions to set the scene in each game. He had a number of design elements to choose from, and this is what we came up with. The campaign starts in 2270, literally the day Kirk brings the Enterprise home from its five-year mission. So, it takes place in the gap years between TOS and TMP.
Stat-wise, it’s just a Connie with a boosted engineering number. I think I goosed the tractor beam too, because of its specific mission.
Challenger’s mission is to boldly go where no one else dares to go. It is a fast-response ship specializing in repair and rescue, and intervention.
Since the campaign takes place between TOS and TMP, I designed uniforms that were transitional, just for fun.
I’m a fan of the animated series, too.
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I love Bill Krause’s designs - often a bit over-armed, but always sleek and very pretty!
My own Arcadia-class (post 60 above) is based on a mash-up of his Sentinel and Shangri-La classes.
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Astronut, it’s fortuitous that you mentioned the Arcadia as it’s one of the (few) fanmade ships I recalculated with Utopia Planitia rules last night. (You probably remember giving me permission to draw up STA stats for your Acadia some time ago.) If you want to download my new PDF for the Arcadia, you can find it here.
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