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Both firsts of their respective classes. Grissom-class and Thunderchild-class, rendezvous with eachother near a red nebula. I’d also like to imagine that the Grissom mentioned in the Background of PIC 2x01 “The Star Gazer” IS This Grissom. It’s like “What if you made the oberth more modern and less delicate” you get that, also I like this take on the Thunderchild. The Original STO Vessel had the groundwork already laid for making her a Picard ship so it seemed very reasonable to go that route, Since the original was present at frontier day, maybe she got banged up to hell and maybe afterwards she went through a rebuilding like Titan did to become the Titan-A and we get the Thunderchild-A as a result. Also a very close person to me has this version of the Thunderchild as her normal roleplay ship so I’d thought I’d draw it for her. :3

Frontier Day 2401 … lots of stuff happened and the cleanup afterwards was a bit of a mess. A 1-year-old Duderstadt, The Taiho was a participant but not part of the main fleet, it still didn’t save her from the Titan-A though. She had extensive external damage and glitchy systems. But instead of taking time to repair it, Vice-Admiral Sue Buchanan opted to just decommission it instead. Many starships were signed off for scrapping under Buchanan’s order, even including the Enterprise-F … Starfleet caught on after public outrage over the F’s state and she was given a re-inspection of the damage, while the system’s damage was prevalent. The Hull stood up pretty well. Following that blunder Buchanan was asked to resign rather than go through a court martial for exaggerating damage reports and falsifying reasons for decommissioning on newer ships.

Taiho wouldn’t get that chance immediately, she was sent to a Surplus Depot, Federation Surplus Dockyard 23, near Orion space. When the order to recommission her finally came through, a ship was sent to retrieve her. but even before they arrived stuff seemed odd … this particular depot has a history of hulks disappearing with no transaction of registration change records amd later those same hulks would be found in a nearby nebula stripped to the frame, like they were left as incomplete skeletons.

When the Station got the order that a ship was en route with a skeleton crew for the ship, their timing couldn’t have been worse as the Zakdorn operator was in the midst of talking with a Orion syndicate crew about stripping the Taiho like they did the last ships. Apparently it was a black market surplus ring sponsored by the syndicate, funneling technology and weapons heavily regulated by the UFP to outlaws with close ties to the syndicate. The ship dropped out of Warp and was greeted by a fleet of Pirate vessels led by a Blackguard-class medium carrier.

Starfleet was able to win the day and retrieve the Taiho, but it definitely was an encounter for the books.

Orbiting a Class M world around a binary star, the Taiho conducts a survey.

The Taiho has a storied history, Launched in 2400 and participated in the 2401 frontier day incident, it was originally written off but was reactivated on the orders of a fleet admiral after it turned out her damage reports were over-exaggerated, of course her recommissioning is a story in of itself coupled with the discovery of a Surplus depot operating in cohorts with the Orion syndicate running a black market surplus ring, but that’s another story.

Here she’s conducting a simple survey, one of the more calmer tasks a starfleet vessel can undertake.