Capital Ship Development Bureau

The Capital Ship Development Bureau is the bureau within the Craft Development Bureau of the United Stars Navy in charge of developing Capital Ships as follows.
 * Create a list of requirements for new Cruiser and larger ships, if necessary working with other bureaus to ensure that the next generation of ships they are designing are compatible with each other.
 * In some cases, not only will the bureau provide the requirements, leaving up to the companies bidding to actually design the new ship, it will provide the desired design and have them bid on the cost and delivery rate.  Any company that runs over on costs and is consistently late on deliveries can be fined and prohibited from bidding to supply the Union Military for a certain period of time.

Uni Design Revision
Starting in 5045 shortly after the Science Council announced, that the Union had officially passed all markers to make it a Tech level nine (TL 9) society, the Capital Ship Development Bureau was tasked to develop a new UNI Design standard that would bring the Fleet to TL 9.

Three Approaches
Three approaches peculated to the top and each approach received considerable funding to create a fleet wide workable concept (from shuttle to Dreadnought) and built a prototype battle ship for the next millennia. the whole initiative is supervised by Commodore Archibald Bull, lead of the CSDB
 * The Seenian Approach - under the Auspice of Dr. Foster
 * Uni Design 2.0 - under the Auspice of Admiral Heinrich Donnerwetter
 * Big Fish Project - under the Auspice of Admiral Mc Elligott

Final version of New Uni Design
After building and testing new ships based on all three approaches it was decided to create an amalgam of the three approaches.

The new Uni Design would be centered around the Seenian Approach modified in such a way that the ships built after Seenian samples would have the same unified engineering principle at its core as the original Uni design meaning same tools and same part philosophy.

the vast majority of elements found in Union Ships that had no known Seenian equivalent came from the Uni Design 2.0 approach. Only a few elements came from the Big Fish Project, in most cases those being Seenian Tech that had been improved by the crew of the USS Tigershark.