The Realta Class is a reliable, if old-fashioned Explorer based on designs of early Earth-made starship designs. Due to its simple components and small size, many Realta hulls were commissioned in the early 2100s and have become synonomous with the Independent movement.
Realta, from the Italian word for Reality. And that’s what you’ll get from this, the first ship in the game. A big heaping dose of reality. A little ship that’s got very low power, a tiny range, and not much in the way of defensive capability.
It’s like the first car you’d get a teenager. It’s cheap, easy to repair, and you don’t care if it comes home all scraped up. But on the other hand, it can be fun to drive.
What the Realta Is Good At
This tiny ship is really, really fast. As of this writing, it’s still the fastest ship in the game on impulse power. It starts off with an impulse speed of 150, and if you put a Klaa crew or a Pan crew on it, it’ll go even faster. With my officers, I was able to max mine out at 225 impulse speed.
At higher levels, you can still use your Realta to slow down larger ships so that you can either attack them with something bigger or let one of your ships escape. You can have a lot of fun in big alliance battles, keeping big Augurs and the like chasing you while your other ships loot someone.
What the Realta Is Bad At
It would really be picking on the weakest ship in the game to mention what this one isn’t good at.
Why You Shouldn’t Scrap It
Last year, for the first anniversary of the game, there was a Realta battle event. They might do it again. Plus, you’ll get nothing of value back for scrapping it. In the words of a great Federation President, Red Forman, “Just because we can do a thing, doesn’t mean that we must do a thing.”
So don’t scrap it. Keep it around, like a favorite pet. Take it out for runs from time to time.
Background
The Realta is a completely original ship to Star Trek Fleet Command. It’s got what appears to be a single warp nacelle on top of the saucer section, which is split for what appears to be a small deflector dish. Below the saucer, it appears to be the engineering section, which would mean this has a similar setup to the USS Kelvin.
The in-game writeup says that the ship comes from the early 2100s, which would put it at least four decades after Zefram Cochrane‘s launch of the Phoenix, but well before the Jonathan Archer‘s Enterprise NX-01, and likely before the USS Franklin. (NX-326.)
It’s labeled NCC-0184, which would put it right after the USS Horizon (not the ECS Horizon) in the Starfleet / United Earth registry.
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