Cario Class

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Cario Class Starbase

Class Information
Expected Hull Life	60 Years
Refit	5 Years
Affiliation	Renegades
Dimensions
Width	665 meters
Height:	708 meters
Decks	75
Engines
Defensive Systems
Phasers	12 Type XV Phaser Arrays
Photons	8 Launchers, 1000 Torpedoes
Personnel
Officers	90
Enlisted	225
FMI/Sabre	150
Passengers	180
Auxiliary Craft
Shuttle Bays	1 Large Shuttlebay, 8 Docking Ports
Runabouts	4
Additional Information
Systems	1 Attatched Drydock
Built	Single Run, Deep Space One
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Echo of a great starship

During the Borg War Captain Bryan Cash took the USS Cairo's saucer section into the Briar Patch to hide from the Borg with a group of civilians he rescued from Qualor II before the Borg assimilated/destroyed the colony. Now the Cairo's saucer section was kept in orbit of the Baku homeworld in the Briar Patch by Captain Cash while he watched for the Borg that he thought would come after him....he spent years repairing the saucer and keeping its power and weapons systems operational. So that saucer section was a habitable structure already in space.

An idea

By 2401 Starfleet's New Re-Exploration Initiative was well underway, with a few vessel's launched, the newly promoted Commodore Cash took his new command, USS Voyager NCC 74656-A back to the Briar Patch to help in creating Deep Space One. With another derelict Galaxy class saucer section from the USS Venture, the Voyager crew with a engineers from the Starfleet Corps of Engineering where able to connect the two Galaxy class Saucers together. With a few more parts installed and a design taken from the jupiter class the station was operational for a crew to board.

The Frist of many

Deep Space One is the first great space building project of the new century after the Borg War. With resources at a minimum Starfleet Command decided on an unorthodox approach to construction of a new outpost and formed the new Starbase into a useful and habitable outpost. Starfleet gave command of the new outpost to Captain Zack Marshall-Bennet shortly after construction was completed.

Cario?Cairo?

One of the major components of DS-1 was the saucer section of a ship of some note.The official starfleet records list it as being named the USS Cairo NCC-42136-A while the hull of the ship reads USS Cario NCC-42136-A.The misspelling on the ships hull was discovered close to four years later.By the time the error was discovered the borg war had began and repainting the hull of the ship took a back seat.During construction of DS-1 Admiral Cash having grown fond of calling his ship the Cario over the years, decided to name the new class of space station after the ship that made up it's heart.So the Cario class was born.

A new role and a historic moment

Early 2401 Starfleet saw the need to assign a starship to protect the station and the Ba'ku homeworld. There weren't many starships that could fill out the general role of explorer and escort except one. Starfleet re-assigned its flagship, the USS Enterprise NX 1701 - F to the station as its multi-purpose support vessel.

Changes for the better

In 2403 with the USS Enterprise-F recalled to Earth, Starfleet sent a small convoy of ships to assist in a major refit and overhaul of the station. While the original DS-1 crew took the Enterprise to find several important Federation scientists within the Alpha Quadrant, the station was upgraded. This included a new drydock facility which would allow the base to extend its usefulness to the Re-Exploration Initiative. Starships to the size of an Enterprise class starship could dock at the station and recieve repairs, refits and general maintenance. A small number of orbital defence platforms were also put in and around of the station. These defence platforms were outfitted with pulse phaser cannons and regenerative shield systems.

The station was later given a second support vessel, a newly built Defiant class starship the USS Warhawk NCC 90028. It's primary purpose was to fill in the role as guard for the station and escort for the flagship.