Originally posted by CmdrBluejeans:
The following designs should all be up by next weekend (figure a target date of December 16th):
Ascendent-class Explorer (long-term, deep-space exploration, with luxurious settings)
Vishnu-class Heavy Cruiser (barely-out-of-prototype-phase vessel designed for rescue, evacuation, and humanitarian relief missions on a near-planetary scale)
Cyrano-class Fast Cruiser (high-speed, long-range, border and frontier patrol ship)
Fortress-class Heavy Frigate (defensive anchor for system/sector fleet actions)
Republic-class Fast Frigate (deployment of Rapid Response teams for planetary assault and defense)
Shir'kar-class Frigate (armed science vessel for single-sector research)
Squire-class Runabout (short-range, low-profile reconaissance, meant to supplement either the Shir'kar or Cyrano-class ships)
Chamberlain-class Courier (long-range, high-speed, luxury transport of VIPs)
All of these are proving to be challenging, and all of them have at least one piece of rare or uprated technology, but none of them are monsters with everything under the sun, so all of them should be fairly reasonable.
BJ