The shuttle would be viable for much longer mission lengths and would house a larger crew while still retaining some of the aerowing design that had made the series excel in atmospheric situations. It was with this in mind that development began on the first prototype of a new Exploration Scout.
With the commissioning of a Mk III iteration of the Valkyrie warp fighter, the Talon-class scout ship was becoming outclassed and it was becoming apparent that in an arms-race where a single fighter could potentially destroy the scout, improvements were required to be made in order to keep the shuttle-series a viable tactical choice. Given the Talon's advanced sensors and its capabilities to be further amplified, small sleets of these crafts could be deployed along the Federation's various neutral zones to aide in the detection of cloaked ships.Īnother notable accomplishment of the Talon-class was how its size and flight-profile was used in the development for the first wave of experimental fighters in the Valkyrie-project. The aerowing's advanced sensor package and atmospheric capabilities were further fine-tuned into the development of the Talon-class scout ship, which had gained much more widespread use within the Federation as a deep-space reconnaissance craft and as a medium sized military transport. The Intrepid and the first of the Luna-class starships, however, had aerowing shuttles as auxillary crafts mounted underneath their saucers. This project led to the aerowing-design, though it never gained much widespread use. The successful deployment of this ship for patrols near the Cardassian DMZ led to the development of a hybrid Runabout-fighter geared towards atmospheric flight and combat but also equipped with specialized sensor packages allowing for detailed planetary scans.
The Allegiant was the culmination in a long line of mission-specialized auxiliary craft starting with earlier development of the Peregrine-class Federation Attack Fighter. Just like it's registry, the prototype was also given an official name besides 'the Yacht', and that was the USS Allegiant (commonly ref. It was an augmented version of the Talon-class scout, refereed to as Project Manta by the Advanced Starship Design Bureau. When it was decided that the Theurgy would serve as an experimental testbed for both a fighter squadron of the new Mk III Valkyries and for a new system of computer interface (the Ship A.I.) it was decided that for a auxiliary craft, they would integrate a prototype for the newest in the aerowing-series of scouting vessels into the hull of the saucer.
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