USS Horus

History
The USS Horus is an experimental Claymore Class Light Cruiser and Patrol Support Vessel designed at Utopia Plantia Shipyards. The Claymore Class was originally designed in the same regard as the Nebula Class, providing a more resource efficent platform for Starfleet Operations other then the costly Galaxy Class Starships.

The Claymore Class was considered to implement the successful design features of the Miranda Class which had a long service history. The Claymore Class Project was finally given approval in 2361, a full two years after the development of the Nebula Class.

The Claymore Class Project was dealt a crippling blow early on when the USS Claymore experienced a jam in her "rollbar" mounted torpedo launchers, this explosion ripped through the secondary hull, tearing the rollbar off the ship and destroying the vessel during combat operations.

Starfleet was devastated by the accident and over twenty Utopia Plantia Support Staff were lost. The Director of the Project convinced Starfleet to give the project another chance after almost a year of investigating what had gone wrong. The USS Claymore-A was developed and the vessel looked towards a promising future, this revised version preform above the capacities of the tests.

However this was not to last long, Starfleet finally gave approval to build three more of these ships, of which the USS Hathor was one. However in July of 2363, the USS Claymore-A was destroyed attempting to flee from a Tzenkethi Attack Ship. The vessel's antimatter containment field collapsed, destroying the vessel and over 500 personnel were lost.

Starfleet were forced to abandon the project completely in favour for the Nebula Class and the remaining Claymore Class vessels were put on light ferry duty of low ranking dignitaries within Federation Space.

The USS Horus was pulled into a spatial anomaly in 2385 and found itself in the Pegasus Galaxy, the vessel met the USS Anubis and filled a support role, providing industrial replicators for the 1st Fleet. Fortunatly, the USS Horus survived the battle of Alexandria and assisted the USS Imhoteb in evacuating the planet before Alexandria City Station made its escape from the Borg.

The USS Horus is current assisting in efforts to rebuild a drydock facility for starship repair in orbit around Haven's Hope