Star Fleet Engineering
Bureau of Alien Technology Assessment

Dalriadan Alliance Desk

Status: Truce
Location: Coreward, Alpha Quadrant
Threat: Moderate - Comparable technological development to UFP

The Dalriadan Alliance is a multi-system, multi-species cooperative built around the core words of the Star Kingdom of Dalriada.  The Alliance border reaches its closest point to Federation claimed space a mere 30 light years away from Starbase Omega.  The Alliance is the largest (known and contacted) government native to the region coreward of the Federation, numbering over 200 star systems.

The Dalriada themseves are a group of homo sapiens native to this region of the Alpha Quadrant.  The Federation does not know how they got here, although biological evidence collected from those who have visited Starbase Omega indicates they are indeed homo sapiens, and therefore probably came from Earth at some point in the past.

Their technological development level is on par with the Federation, but derives from a somewhat different base.  This meant that when open war erupted between the Federation and the Alliance in 2410 the Federation was not be prepared to handle Dalriadan warships.

Although the war lasted less than two weeks before a cease fire was agreed upon, though a formal treaty was not reached until 2412, the Dalriada had proven their point to the Federation.  Interference in traditonal patterns of trade in the region and the Dalriadan economy would not be tolerated.

In truth, the Alliance and Federation have much in common.  They are both collections of approximately 200 semi-independant worlds which have united together, freely, for mutual defense and security.  Both powers value individual rights and freedoms.  However, while the Federation has developed a largely socialist model where money has little value to most of its citizens, the Dalriadan Alliance is fiercely capitolistic.  While the Alliance has limited government-sponsored services, the individual is financially responsible for the majority of their own needs.  Even though this has the potential for wide-spread poverty and hunger, the average quality of life in the Alliance is actually higher than that in the Federation.

Battleships

• -class Dreadnought,
  

Command (Battle) Cruisers

• -class Command Cruiser,
  

Battle Cruisers

• -class Warship,
  

Heavy Cruisers

• -class Warship,
  

Light Cruisers

• -class Explorer,
  

Destroyers

• -class Escort,
  

• Battleships

• Command Cruisers

• Battle Cruisers

• Heavy Cruisers

• Light Cruisers

• Destroyers

• Frigates