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(Click on the headline itself to read the full post.) Delta Dynamics' LCARS site is back up and ready for business. What happened? When the site went offline in October, it coincided with the development of our next journal issue, #309 "Guardian class Interceptor.” To get DDLCARS back online, I first needed to update four personal wikis to the same PHP settings this site now required. This process, I’m embarrassed to say, took months to resolve. Despite Adrasil and I not being coders, we opted not to hire PHP, MediaWiki, and WordPress specialists because he said it wasn't in our budget (Note: FY2023 was...$0.47). However, it was a valuable learning experience – I gained knowledge about PHP, MySQL databases, WordPress structure, and MediaWiki error resolution and that allowed me to clear the last hurdle today. Work is now underway again on issue #309 and we've posted a new gallery for Adrasil's enhanced take on the Horizon class cruiser that first appeared in Spaceflight Chronology.

(Click on the headline itself to read the full post.) Primary drafts of images for the WWIII-era Guardian interceptor, flown by the USAF—and physical predecessor to the post-Contact Verne survey cruiser—have just been completed for SRM Report #309. The issue is due out in early September. In the meantime, Delta Dynamics’ website has had a makeover and we’ve opened the doors, as of this morning. The usual URL (http://starshiptracker.com/deltadynamics) will redirect you to the new version, done in the LCARS format. The first 18 issues have been posted with all of Adrasil’s orthos and blueprints provided, as well as the journal narrative in a searchable format. Additional materials (such as specs and ship names) from the PDF issues will be added to the reports over time and the PDFs themselves are prominently displayed (for downloading) at the top of each report page. Also, essays (both by myself and guest writer Kevin Thomas) have their own section and the Addendum button will take

(Click on the headline itself to read the full post.) Delta Dynamics is about to release our 17th issue (cover #307). We’re focusing on the TAU program this time, of which the NASA spacecraft Charybdis is a member. The vessel was mentioned in TNG second season’s “The Royale”; the only part of the ship seen in the episode is the portion of the hull with “NASA” and the American flag displayed (as held up on the transporter pad by CDR Riker and the most important person in Star Fleet history). However, behind the scenes, Mike Okuda made a profile of the ship, which might be more familiar as an image done by Kris Trigwell. Adrasil has done some incredible treatment with this assignment. Because of the modular nature of Okuda’s Charybdis design, the ship has at least six very disparate styles to it. This makes the creation of different perspectives (which we believe has never been shown for the Charybdis before) extremely complicated. Additionally, the Okuda image cannot actually be