The Alpha Quadrant alliance was formed in 2383, between four races: The Federation, the Klingons, the Romulans, and the Cardassians. The focus of the alliance was to eliminate Borg, among other alien threats.

Recently, there had been an increase in Borg activity near and within the Alpha Quadrant.

"Admiral's log, stardate

The Alliance's Flagship is the U.S.S. Unity, registry number NCC-99897.

The Council of the Alliance

The Council of the Alliance consisted of four representatives, in Starfleet terms, four Fleet Admirals, one from each race.

The Alliance Flagship

Name: Registry: Type:	U.S.S. Unity NCC-98979 Enhanced Deterrence Explorer
Commissioned:	2373-2377
Production:	N/A
Production Facility:	Hodges Yards, New Australia
Unit Run:	[USS Excalibur] [USS Pendragon*] [USS Perseus-A] [USS Unity] [USS Texas]   *=Originally commissioned as USS Excalibur, renamed when previous vessel to bear that named returned to duty after 14 months of MIA
Mass	3,500,000 tons
Crew	2200
Propulsion:	One cochrane warp core feeding two warp nacelles; two subatomic unified energy impulse engines
Armament	12 x Type XII phaser arrays 1 x Rapid fire quantum torpedo turret + 600 torpedoes 5 x Type 4 Burst Fire photon torpedo tubes + 500 photon torpedoes total Antimatter spread emitter
Defense Systems	Auto modulated shield system Heavy Duranium/Tritanium double hull plus 10 cm Ablative armor. High level Structural Integrity Field
Warp Speeds	Normal Cruise : Warp Factor 9.22 Maximum Cruise : Warp Factor 9.75  Maximum Rated : Warp Factor 9.99 for thirty six hours
Hull Life	120 years
Refit Cycle	Minor: 5 years Standard: 10 Years Major: 50 Years
Dimensions	Length: 1225.7m Beam: 812 m Height: 545m Decks: 58
Class History:                                                 Notes:	The Excalibur-Class Starship, is the single largest multi-mission Starship ever constructed. It's size and design as a Dreadnought is to counter the Dominion Dreadnoughts, which means it is also the most deadly ship in the Starfleet. It incorporates shipwide holo-emitters and is the first to enable sub-space hologramatic link ups. Meaning, you can talk to someone from Earth in your room as if they are really there (this function can be used shipwide). The ship has 2 Shuttlebays, both able to hold 18 support craft each. Its weaponry systems consist of the most advanced Phasers and Torpedo systems available. The ship can support a crew of 2,200 people . An Excalibur class service life is expected to last 100 years needing (if unaffected by damage) only 6 refits during that time making it the longest serving starship in history and also the longest without refit.  The Class had been laying around Starfleet's design bureau as an alternate take on the Sovereign-Class. When the first indications of tensions with the Dominion began to show, the Class resumed production immediately, with it's first three vessels completing construction and commissioning in the last few months of the Dominion War. The Excalibur Class Starship project was an endeavor which started in idle theorization and ended in a chaotic rush for completion. When the delightfully vague memo from Starfleet Command proposing the project arrived at the ASDB division of the Utopia Planitia Yards facility, not much notice was taken. The memo was classified as low priority, and required only mainly theoretical work to be done on a possible design for the next, say, twenty years or so. The Excalibur Class was planned to be the next great class of starship, after the Galaxy Class and the developing Sovereign Class had served their day in the limelight. The Galaxy Class starship, just completed by Utopia, was projected at the time to serve as the main class of starship for at least the next twenty years, with the Sovereign class planned to supercede that. In fact, a design team was not even assembled for the Excalibur, and the 'Theoretical Research' of the project was relegated to technical staff being briefed to doodle in their spare time if they could. There was more time dedicated in those first few months to getting the Project banner right than to actual research. And so the ominous "Excalibur" project, as well as a few other minor starship projects relegated to the same priority, dwindled on - for the next couple of years, that is. Starfleet's luck started to change for the worst around the beginning of 2365. The advent of contact being made by the starship Enterprise with a vehemently domineering hive-like race known as the Borg furrowed the brows of a few prominent Starfleet Admirals, including Admiral JP Hanson. The ship which had encountered the singular Borg vessel was severely damaged by the encounter - and that ship was of the Galaxy Class. Starfleet knew they would be in serious trouble if not even the strongest of their ships would be able to defend itself in the event that the Borg incurred itself on the Federation and signs pointed to that event becoming a reality in at least the next ten years. Accordingly, Hanson and others brought forward the design schedule of many research projects which would form almost a new breed of starship - the most notable of these being the Defiant Class. However the Excalibur Project received orders only to formalize its research more and the research phase schedule was cut back to ten years. The Excalibur Class seemed just too big a task to undertake at the time. Yet a design team had now been formed, and theoretical models were surprisingly drawn up within the next year. The Borg caught the Federation terrifyingly off guard in late 2366. Starfleet's last stand at the Wolf system resulted in devastating casualties. The loss of 11 000 personnel, not to mention the destruction of 39 starships, literally crippled and numbed the Federation. The painful but necessary task of repopulating the fleet and redeploying what resources they still had got bitterly underway. Starfleet resources had to be spread thin across the Federation and it's outer colonies, some sectors of which had to be left totally devoid of Fleet assistance. Starship fabrication was not fairing well either. Of the twenty starship frames brought out of storage, four were deemed to have a chance of being space worthy within the next ten months - and one of these starship frames had not even been brought into production - the Bradbury. Research phases of starship classes such as the Sovereign, Kelvin, and Jupiter were hurriedly completed by the middle of 2367, and the misfortune-laden production process was begun. The spaceframe building of the Sovereign Class was also hurried along. Excalibur Class was shocked into top priority by Starfleet, and much to Utopia Planitia's objections, the first space worthy vehicle was ordered to be made ready by 2377. Chaos ruled for the next four years in the newly designated Excalibur Class division. Technicians painstakingly tried to feed data into the computer from notes they had scribbled a year before. The four theoretical models that had been previously completed had been left in a static state once the computer had deemed them theoretically capable of warp flight - once real life technology caught up in about twenty years. Major overhaulings were made, and after much testing and revamping, the four possible designs for the Excalibur Class was submitted to Starfleet in record time.  The Excalibur Class is capable of travel via an artificial singularity, much like the fake U.S.S. Dauntless encountered by the U.S.S. Voyager. It is noticable that the ship is preparing to enter the singularity when the warp field grids on the nacelles change in color from blue to green.
Deck Layout 1 Main Bridge, Captain's Ready Room, Observation Lounge 30 Living Quarters, , Captain's Yacht Dock Port 2 Captain's Quarters, Senior Officer Quarters 31 Crew Quarters, Science labs 3 Officer Quarters, Holodecks 32 Shuttle Bay 2 , Torpedo Bay 2 Control & Storage 4 Officer Quarters, Springball and Volleyball courts 33 Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays 5 Officer Quarters, Crew Lounges 34 Shuttle Bay 3, Cargo Bays , Cargo Transporters 1-5 6 Officer Quarters , Ship's Library 35 Crew Quarters, Cargo Bays 7 Tactical Office, Crew Quarters, Holodecks, Science Labs 36 Cargo Bays , Crew Quarters 8 Stellar Cartography, Science Labs , Maintenance 37 matter storage pods, upper core injection assembly 9 Crew Quarters, Crew Lounges 38 Upper Engineering Support Area 10 Science Labs, Living Quarters 39 Main Engineering, Cargo Transporter 9 11 Counseling Offices, Crew Quarters 40 Main Engineering 12 Transporter Rooms ,Conference Rooms 41 Main Engineering, Ship's Quartermaster's Office 13 Operations Center, Crew Quarters 42 Deuterium Storage, Deflector Control 14 Crew Quarters  Junior Officers Quarters, VIP/Guest Quarters 43 Lower Level Torpedo Bay Control, Dorsal Docking Port, 15 Maintenance and Crew Quarters 44 Deuterium Fill Ports and Storage , Engineering Support 16 Crew Quarters  Primary Computer Core 45 Parts Storage, Secondary Computer Core, 17 Separation Plane and mechanics 46 Antimatter Storage Pods , Environmental Control 18 Crew Quarters ,Torpedo storage, Main Torpedo Room,  47 Antimatter Injection Reactors, Viewing Lounges, Cargo Bays 19 Crew Quarters, Main Impulse Engines, Cantina Lvl 2 48 Antimatter Storage Pods, Engineering Support Labs 20 Main Lounge (Cantina), Arboretum, Docking Clamps, Cantina Level 1 49 Emergency Batteries, Secondary Antimatter & Deuterium storage 21 Crew Quarters, Main Shuttlebay 50 Transporter Rooms 6 and 7, Cargo Transporters 6-8 22 Holodecks 4-6, Recreational Facilities  51 Life Support Systems Shuttle Bay 3, Auxiliary Craft Construction & Maintenance 23 Medical Laboratories, Gymnasium 52 Security, Brig, Armory,  cargo bays, Waste Management 24 Sickbay, Medical Laboratories 53 Cargo Bays Industrial Replicators, Torpedo Bay 3 Control & Storage, Tractor Beam Control 25 Crew Quarters, Docking port 54 Maintenance Access, Primary Sensor control 26 Environmental Control and Life Support 55 Torpedo storage, Main Torpedo Room 27 Crew Quarters 56 Cargo Bays, Crew Quarters 28 Living Quarters . Transporter Rooms 3 4 & 5 57 Engineering Support, Cargo Bays 29 Crew Quarters 58 Engineering Support, Cargo Bays

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