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Aldebaran shipyards

 

Author : bdfd

Date : apr 2015

Updated : Mar 2022

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. 

Starbase 14 (v5) turns around Aldebaran III.
The USS DELESTREZ (v4) and many shuttles turn around Starbase.
We find near, the "New Aberdeen shipyards" which build Akira, New-Orleans and Proteus class.

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)

 

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