U.T.F. Valkyrie Class

When the armament limitations were lifted due to the war with Avadon, it allowed the U.T.F to build new kinds of ships.  One of those was the Valkyrie class destroyer, which was about the same size as the Swift light cruiser, but traded speed for firepower.  It was their hope that given technological and economical limitations, this trade off would allow them to balance the scales in a battle of attrition.  The Valkyrie's major drawbacks were the noted lack of cruising speed and tactical speed.  Sacrificing those two things at the time allowed a more battle ready vessel, and one that would escort their first battleship that was also under construction, as well as possibly even the older Freedom class.  Service life for the Valkyrie is expected to be three generations and will be refitted for each.

Ship armaments will not be posted until a later date.  



The U.T.F. background story is this: In an alternate universe the Terran Alliance enjoy a period of peace. A time that is ended when a large number of it's members decide it wants a change in government and would rather conquer it's neighbors rather than co-exist. This civil war rips across the galaxy through all worlds occupied by the Terran Alliance. Eventually years later a stalemate is declared and it is agreed that the rebels leave all Terran Alliance controlled systems to find their own home and live as they choose. Decades pass as the Alliance recovers and the new Empire the rebels wanted emerges in the shadows of space. The Terran Empire, still using older Terran Alliance ship designs, made war with it's neighbors and began carving the path they wanted by first taking independent worlds out until they had the strength to rival the Alliance once more. However, this did not go as planned. The newly minted "Terran Empire", declaring itself in a manner of tyrants, soon knew the troubles of other troubled empires. It's own people grew unhappy with what they had allowed themselves to become and this sparked another Terran Civil War that ripped the Empire apart. The Empire fell to the freedom fighters in the end and it was agreed by those elected to be in charge that conquered worlds be released and given back to their previous owners as a show of good faith that their intentions were good and had no wish to rule over others. The world first colonized after their split from the Alliance was called New Terra, and that is where they regrouped to form a new body of government. Other independent Terran controlled worlds eventually joined the new government and the "United Terran Federation" or "U.T.F." was born.

Now that a bit of background has been established, I want to point out that this is a crossover fan fiction of sorts between the game, Galactic Civilizations III and Star Trek for Galactic Civilizations III. All of the U.T.F.'s ships are in the same style as Starfleet's from Star Trek, starting around the Pre-TOS period and evolving toward the TNG era. Or at least that is the intention. I want to do mostly custom ships and any official ship designs I try to do, I want to make them my own in some way that makes them stand out and isn't a copy of what someone else has done. But we will see how that goes.

This ship was design in Galactic Civilizations III, a game by Stardock.