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Revision as of 14:21, 19 May 2013

Starfleet Corps of Engineers
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Active:

Since 2132

Part Of:

Starfleet

Allegiance:

United Federation of Planets

Branch:

Engineering

Role:
  • Engineering Problems
  • Special Projects
  • Designing New Technologies
Flagship:

USS DaVinci

Motto:

Audentes Fortuna Juvat

Command Staff
Commander-in-Chief of the Federation Starfleet:

President of the United Federation of Planets

Commander, Starfleet:

Fleet Admiral Ral Grax

Chief of Staff of Starfleet:

Admiral Teval

Master Chief Petty Officer of Starfleet:

MCPO Christopher Guerrera

Chief of Starfleet Department:

Admiral Leroy Greenwood

Master Chief Petty Officer of Department:

MCPO Tren

Source


The Starfleet Corps of Engineers (otherwise known as the SCE, Starfleet Engineering, or Starfleet Engineering Corps) was created shortly after United Earth Starfleet came to be. Its initial purpose was to create Starbase 001 and Utopia Planitia, though it was expanded later. It did its job well from the time of its conception. It continues to create new projects, new ships, and find solutions to Starfleet's problems. Today, Starfleet engineers have a reputation among citizens of all powers of their technological abilities and some say Starfleet engineers can "take a rock and make a replicator".

History

United Earth

The Starfleet Corps of Engineers was created around 2156, shortly after the birth of United Earth Starfleet. The SCE was initially simply a band of engineers sent to build Starbase 1 and Utopia Planitia. This is the group that eventually became the Starfleet Corps of Engineers not long after. Every Starfleet cadet in the engineering program is taught about these simpler days and the times when they were not thought of as a force to be reckoned with.

Eventually the SCE was given the purpose of creating new ships and new warp drives. In fact, it was the R&D department of the SCE, then known as Starfleet Engineering, that created both the Daedalus-class and NX-class starships, along with the theory of deflector shields. Working in conjunction with Starfleet Security, they also created body armor for security personnel and ablative armor for the hulls of ships. Upon meeting the Andorians, the SCE was driven to make more effective weaponry as the Andorians were quite militaristic. Instead, they discovered that the Andorians could be reasoned with and that the danger lay elsewhere.

With the disastrous first contact with the Romulans, Earth and Starfleet found themselves facing a war they were not prepared for. The SCE went to work to find a warp five engine and to also create better weaponry and defenses against the Romulan's tactics. They were successful to an extent though Earth would not have been able to win without the help of her allies.

Founding of the Federation

The peoples of the four member races of the fledgling Federation looked to the stars for allies, and did not find them right away, making the SCE more determined to create better ships, weapons, and warp drives. Instead, the Federation Council wanted them to concentrate on computer memory storage and power consumption so that Starfleet's ships would be able to better retain their data on mapping the quadrant and the races they met. Reluctantly agreeing, the engineers went to work on their tasks, and found them to be far more fulfilling than constantly working on battle technology.

Once they had been able to work on peaceful technologies again, the SCE began pushing outwards, perfecting the transporter technology, designing new shuttlecraft, and working on new technologies in general. They did their job well and with enthusiasm, as every engineer loved to experiment. Soon it was not just humans in this area of Starfleet, but also Andorians, Vulcans, and especially Tellarites. Tellarites and Vulcans soon began to outnumber the others, however in other areas of Starfleet, humans or Andorians outnumbered the others. In time they made peace with this and learned to work together.

For the rest of the century, the SCE continued to work on its various projects, including the Constitution-class project, and the deflector shields which became standard on all Federation vessels. Over time the ships and crews began to use phasers, both handheld and ship phasers, instead of phase pistols or phase pulse arrays. It was an era of discovery for the SCE, one that was held in high regard ever since.

2200s

Until the late 23rd century, the SCE was merely seen as a to-go department for the various others, creating things such as better transporters, phasers, or medical tricorders. The regard with which they were held was that they were there to fix things, and that they had no other purpose and as such was low on Starfleet's list of priorities. In 2264, the SCE received three Daedalus-class ships with which to find engineering problems throughout the Federation and along her borders, to rectify them, and if possible bring back alien technologies.

Because they did this mission so well, their esteem within Starfleet and the Federation in general started to rise considerably, leading to projects such as excavating asteroids for projects such as the Genesis Project, though this project quelled some of it. Later the Corps was given the task of using one of the gas giants in the Talin system system to create food for a giant spaceborne lifeform. Later, the head of Starfleet Command sent an SCE ship to investigate the disappearance of the USS Enterprise's nacelle into subspace in the Talin system. However, this proved to be false and a result of signals sent from a Romulan outpost on the surface. The Romulans left Federation space just as the USS T'Lora, the SCE ship, found a way through the signal.

2300s

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