Ships

Starfleet Command had been keeping Project Starlight a secret. As such, they could only reassign a small number of ships to the project without bringing attention to themselves. It was decided that a group of no more than 25 ships would compose the newly formed "28th Fleet." The USS Vandenburg, which had already been assigned to Starbase Locksley, was involved with one of the initial tests of the Starlight Array. The remaining ships arrived one at a time, and were involved with the final stage of Project Starlight. The following ships are members of the 28th Fleet.

The following Federation starship was trapped in the Gamma Quadrant when the Bajoran wormhole collapsed briefly in 2374. The captain and crew, not knowing when or if the wormhole would ever open again, decided to set a course for the Federation. Starfleet had updated their status to "Lost." This ship was discovered and recovered by the Starlight Fleet, and added to their numbers.