Arbiter class

The  Arbiter-class was a type of starship operated by the  as a missile cruiser in the 2250s of the  created by the temporal displacement of the Narada.

Overview
The class featured a saucer section which flowed back into an engineering hull placed below the saucer. The class' single warp nacelle was attached by a short pylon at the rear of the engineering hull, making it fractionally higher than the saucer. Unique to the missile cruiser use of the Arbiter-class another feature of the design was two weapons pods held either side of the secondary hull, which could fire long range and powerful charged projectile weapons.

Like its contemporaries, the, , , and , the Arbiter-class could be, in addition to its standard systems, be armed with quantum torpedoes, and the ability to temporal shift. Also in common with other classes, the Arbiter-class has at least one military shuttle, which could be used as an escape pod.

In the 2250s members of the Arbiter-class were part of the Starfleet force that battled starships of the. 

Known vessels

 * USS Arlington
 * USS Aurora (alternate reality)
 * USS Constellation (alternate reality)
 * USS Cutlass
 * USS Excalibur (alternate reality)
 * USS Exultant
 * USS Nebula (alternate reality)
 * USS Paladin
 * USS Ranger (alternate reality)
 * USS Sentinel (alternate reality)
 * USS Vanguard (alternate reality)

Background

 * In D-A-C starship names are selected and allocated at random. The game features eleven Federation starship names which are assigned randomly to all classes of ships in the game. All known Arbiter-class names are therefore also known as the names of vessels of the four other Starfleet classes in the game.