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Aldebaran shipyards

 

Author : bdfd

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Date : apr 2015

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Updated : April 2025

DESCRIPTION :

Aldebaran III is the third planet in the Aldebaran B star system at 66.7 LY from Sun.
Aldebaran III, the only class M planet in the Alpha Tauri system, has six moons.
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, Star is located in Taurus constellation in the Beta Quadrant.
The star is a red dwarf (M2V) with same size than Sun but 0.035% brighter.
The primary is Alf Tau or Aldebaran A, an orange giant (K5III) with brown dwarf.
The system has 4 another K-type stars : C (K0V ?) with D (K5V ?) and E (K7V ?) with F (K7V ?).
Fictious nebula Betreka is near Aldebaran systems.


Aldebaran is near Pentarus (16.9 LY), Barson (26.0 LY) and New-Paris (28.2 LY).

 

HISTORY :

It's a member of UFP since 2216.
By the 2260s, Aldebaran was a major port-of-call for Starfleet starships. 
In 2265, The USS Enterprise stopped at Aldebaran colony.
(TOS episode : Where No Man Has Gone Before) 
The sixth-largest shipyard in Starfleet, the New Aberdeen Ship Yards is located 
on the Federation world of Aldebaran III.
The Advanced Starship Design Bureau's (ASDB) Spacecraft Shielding Division is headquartered here. 

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Starbase 14 (v5) turns around Aldebaran III.
The USS DELESTREZ (v5) and many shuttles turn around Starbase.
We find near, the "New Aberdeen shipyards" which build Akira-II, New-Orleans and Proteus class.

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A journey from Sun to Aldebaran gives with okuda table at cruise speed :
    warp 5.0 : 113.8 days (Enterprise)
  warp 7.0 :  37.1 days (Tos)
  warp 9.0 :  16.1 days (Tng)
  warp 9.9 :   8.0 days (USS DELESTREZ v4)
  warp 9.9+:   3.4 days (Voyager)

 

All objects are with diffuse, emissive, normal and specular textures.

Aldebaran sector.jpg
Aldebaran system.jpg
SB Starbase014 & NewAberdeen Shipyards.jpg
USS Argonaut_cel.jpg
Aldebaran spacedocks.jpg
Fighter Valkyrie MkII.jpg
Runabout Danube.jpg
Shuttle Type9.jpg
Shuttle Type10.jpg
Shuttle DeltaFlyer.jpg
Shuttle Type18.jpg
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