Marklin-class · Garth's first command
U.S.S. Xenophon
Marklin-class destroyer where a young Lieutenant Garth heard Admiral Ramirez's fleetwide address — the bridge between FASA apocrypha and Axanar canon.
- Class
- Marklin-class destroyer
- Command
- Captain Kelvar Garth (lieutenant, communications officer)
Reference Media · Scene Markers
Timestamped screengrabs and recovered production stills tied to U.S.S. Xenophon — anchored to Axanar transcripts and archive assets.
Archive materials
Garth on the Ares bridge
Alec Peters as Garth of Izar on the USS Ares bridge — production still from the Axanar archive.
Significance
Garth of Izar's first wartime assignment was aboard the Marklin-class destroyer Xenophon as communications officer. It was from this bridge that he heard Admiral Ramirez's inaugural fleetwide broadcast — the speech that spread "like wildfire" across the Federation and marked the turning point in Starfleet's rebuild.
FASA & Axanar Bridge
The Xenophon under Garth is a direct bridge between FASA's Four Years War fleet lists and the Axanar documentary frame. Axanar Productions commissioned an approved CGI Marklin-class model for the fan film universe.
Transcript & Broadcast Record
“I was on the bridge of the Xenophon. It was my first ship in the war — an old Marklin-class destroyer… that's when we heard it was Ramirez.”
Garth of Izar · Prelude to Axanar
See Also
References
Era: Four Years War