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The [[First General War]] further emphasized this point, when carriers hastily converted from [[freighter]]s or mothballed [[cruiser]]s deployed swarms of fighters ahead of a Task Force. Losses among the Starfighter Corps remained high, but the Starfighters themselves proved to be of greater value when utilized in large numbers. When hostilities ended, the plans for the first true carrier in Star Fleet history was laid down at the [[Jupiter Fleet Yards]] a mammoth task that would take half a decade to complete. Seven years after the project started, the first ship of the class, the {{USS|Federation|CV|01}}, was finally completed after some teething issues with the four nacelle design. Heavily armed and able to carry sixteen [[shuttlecraft]] and eighty-eight starfighters she was a formidable achievement. After her maiden voyage, the class was put into full production under the orders of [[Star Fleet Command]]. Currently there are seven Federation-Class carriers in service, with the original USS Federation serving as the flagship of the entire [[Federation]].

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