USS Saipan

USS Saipan is the title of a board-based german RPG, divided in three sections: the USS Saipan, transwarp-flagship of the Federation itself, Ch'Rihan - the Romulan Senate, and the Mirror Universe.

History

The USS Saipan RPG was founded in 2002 by a group of german Star Trek fans and RPG-writers and has expanded to an own 'universe' with a lot of background information about fictional political, economical and social groups, enterprises and technology. It uses ideas not only from the Star Trek series, but also from many Star Trek novels and other science-fiction worlds

Story Background

The initial RPG USS Saipan startet in the year 2382. A space-time-incident later displaced the ship in the year 2415, and the actual background time is 2419. The Federation has ratified an alliance-treaty with the Romulans in 2388, which is still holding; there are exchange programs and common ships in the fleet. On the other hand the Federation of the 'USS-Saipan-Universe' has only an uneasy cease-fire with the Klingon empire.

Technology

Primarily the known Star Trek - technologies such as transporter and warpdrive are in use. The ship itself is equipped with a transwarp drive, uses holographic workstations and neural interfaces. The design is an own development and called Prokyon class, which can be separeted in three distinctive parts: main core, saucer-section and science-platform.