Defender class (bomber)

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

Overview
The class featured a small saucer section connected at the rear to an elongated secondary hull. On either side of the engineering hull were pylons connecting to pairs of warp nacelles, giving the class four nacelles in total. The Defender-class was designated a bomber, and was armed with explosive charges which it could deploy in its wake. The class was faster than its Starfleet contemporaries, allowing it to make fast runs into enemy controlled areas to deploy it's weaponry.

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

In the 2250s members of the Defender-class vessels 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 Defender-class names are therefore also known as the names of vessels of the four other Starfleet classes in the game.