DY-100 Sleeper Ship SS Botany Bay
& DY-250 Warp Freighter

DY-100 Historical Notes:

The SS Botany Bay was a prototype DY-100 sleeper ship that was built by a top-secret research team headed by Dr. Jeffrey Carlson during the early 1990's. Information on impulse technology for the engines was leaked to Dr. Carlson by Supervisor 194 (a.k.a. Agent Gary Seven), to use as a backup plan to evacuate survivors in the case his work to avert a nuclear war was unsuccessful.

On January 11 1996, the prototype was hijacked by Gary Seven's assistant, Roberta Lincoln, to facilitate the escape of Khan Noonian Singh and his genetically engineered brethren, following their defeat during the secretive Eugenics Wars. Khan christened the ship Botany Bay, naming it after Australia's first European settlement, a British penal colony who's exiled inhabitants would be the first to begin the conquest of the continent. Some 300 years later the Botany Bay would be encountered by the USS Enterprise.

Although the DY-100 prototype herself was lost to her constructors, more of this class of ship would be built and used to explore the Sol System, despite the majority of Earth's population having been kept in the dark about their discoveries for many decades. Once commercial interests in space were opened, the DY-100's existence was declassified, and would serve as in-system freighters and passenger ships until the advent of warp drive in 2063.

DY-250 Historical Notes:

The DY-250 was a refit of the DY-100, updating the 70-year-old design with warp engines in the years following Dr. Cochrane's historic flight. These, amongst other ships, would make routine runs between Sol and Alpha Centurai, opening up the colonization of Earth's closest neighbor.

DY-100 history derived from "The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Singh Vol 2" by Greg Cox, Pocket Books

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