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I would say it would follow a private boat type thing. The SS Hendrix FC65431, SS for basic starship the FC for Federation Charter followed by the charter issue number. I am only guessing as to what the MC# is on boats, Maritime Charter or some such.
Shuttle might follow aviation lines, like the plane I was taught to fly in, N 23666 X. A Cessna 172.
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IIRC Fasa had some extra stuff along those lines. If I might suggest...
NX - an experimental vessel, first of her class NXC - a testbed vessel, used to test upgrades for vessels of a given class in service
And I'm sure I'll think of more!
Actually... I think NAR was postulated to be "Naval Auxiliary/Reserve" or "Naval Active Reserve", since the ships we've seen with that prefix were Starfleet ships in use by civilians.
As for Microsoft and the Borg, I leave you with this quip:
quote:Microsoft are like a cross between the Borg and the Ferengi. Unfortunately, the Borg do the marketing and the Ferengi do the programming.
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Since those prefixes aren't going to be used consistently by the actual episode writers anyway, I think we should give as much leeway as possible in their interpretation. My favorite is a scheme where N means Federation rego and the two following letters specify the nominal operating organization, with no relation to ship type or mission.
CC = Starfleet Operations CC-F = SF Operations, logistics (SS Huron of TAS fame) CC-G = SF Operations, agricultural (the grain drones of TAS) X = Starfleet R&D AR = planet Earth (or a suborganization thereof) SP = planet Vulcan (ditto) FT = planet Bogusia (ditto) GL = planet Foolius (ditto)
It might be that there is systematicsm to the letters, so that A-anything is Earth and S-anything is Vulcan (for example, NAC is Earth local defences, NAR is Earth private/corporate civilian etc, NSC is Vulcan local defences, NSR is Vulcan private/corporate, etc.). Or then Earth is allocated letter pairs AA-AR, while Andor has AS-BG, Tellar has BH-BZ etc. (See, I did invent new prefixes in this reply after all! ) Foreign ships will be given prefixes beginning with non-N if some regulations require their proper registration to Federation authorities (YLT for Yridian ships frequenting Fed space, for example).
Then again, the letter pairs need not be systematic at all.
) Foreign ships will be given prefixes beginning with non-N if some regulations require their proper registration to Federation authorities (YLT for Yridian ships frequenting Fed space, for example).
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