User:Kimagurena/Chaos Emerald 2327 Variant Proposal

With the increasing needs of the FDS diplomatic service to travel ever greater distances to reach the Federation's expanding borders a number of designs have surfaced for vessels to serve as couriers while minimizing other costs. Where the proposed Project Palanquin would require vessels to work in pairs, the Chaos Emerald proposal minimizes the needed crew and (secondarily) expense by fitting the necessary diplomatic facilities into a single hull.

This feat is impossible--with present technology, or indeed with advances for the next decade--on a frame as small as the one utilized by Palanquin. Stepping up from that size, we reach the same overall frame as the new Orion light frigate Project Emerald; by utilizing the same layout and structuring the new FDS vessel as an Emerald variant/refit, Starfleet can hopefully avoid added delays and costs for prototyping and move straight into production.

In the unlikely event it is desirable to do so, an existing Emerald class ship can be refit into a Chaos Emerald for 20 BR 20 SR. Similarly, it costs 20 BR 20 SR to retrofit back from a Chaos Emerald to an Emerald.

If we are comfortable with sending out FDS teams in a vessel with the toughness of a Soyuz and half the combat capacity, costs can be further cut to 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