"Death of the Valiant" - The Fate of Earth's First Starship

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See also "The Valiant" - Earth's First Starship
   • "The Valiant" - Earth's First Starship  

The SS Valiant was Earth's first true interstellar starship hastily developed shortly after Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight by the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA) using easily obtainable parts and materials. Only the landing module and warp nacelles were designed and built from scratch, while the fusion reactor was adapted from maritime naval use. Following Cochrane's success, a mission to those star systems known to contain planets become an immediate priority, even among the war-ravaged population who viewed the mission as a symbol of Earth's recovery and future among the other races of the galaxy.

UESPA was not the space agency of a unified world government, which would not fully exist for another hundred years, but rather the major space powers of the New United Nations.

SS Valiant from the Star Trek: Encyclopedia:
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Sorry about the sound glitches, not sure why those happened.

Tried so many ways of doing the magentic storm, still wasn't happy with it...

Alot of aspects of the story are based on the novel "The Valiant" with my own bits of extrapolation.

The SS Valiant model has been released for download at the Star Trek Mesh Collection www.trekmeshes.ch

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Valiant 3D Model
by
VideoSpaceFX

Ship interior corridor
by
Reif Dietmar

Planet Texture Map
by
Matt Davis

Music
by
Ron Jones

Valiant Mission Patch
by
Kristian Trigwell

Based upon the Star Trek episode
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
by
Samuel A. Peeples

and the novel
"The Valiant"
by
Michael Jan Friedman

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