Editing Nebula Class (section)

==OPERATIONS==

As a Nebula Class is designed specifically to be multi-mission capable the numer of mission profiles are almost endless. Missions for a Nebula-Class vessel may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Ongoing Scientific Investigation:  A Nebula-class starship is equipped with extensive scientific laboratories and a wide variety of sensor probes and sensor arrays, giving her the ability to perform a wide variety of ongoing scientific investigations. 

Federation Policy and Diplomacy: A Nebula-class starship may also serve a role in diplomatic operations on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. These missions may include transport of Delegates, hosting of negotiations or conferences aboard in the vessel’s Conference Hall, courier for important people and/or items, and first contact scenarios. 
Contact with Alien Lifeforms: Pursuant to Starfleet Policy regarding the discovery of new life, facilities onboard include a variety of exobiology and xenobiological suites, and a small cultural anthropology staff, allowing for limited deep-space life form study and interaction. 

Tactical/Defensive Operations: Utilizing the now-standard Type-X emitters and Galaxy-class torpedo launchers, the Nebula-class is often used on patrol missions or sent in to areas to settle sector skirmishes. 

Emergency/Search and Rescue: Typical Missions include answering standard Federation emergency beacons, extraction of Federation or Non-Federation citizens in distress, retrieval of Federation or Non-Federation spacecraft in distress, and small-scale planetary evacuations - medium or large scale planetary evacuation is not feasible. 
Deep-space Exploration: The Nebula is an ideal platform for deep-space exploration and long-term missions. Several vessels have already returned from five-year deep-space missions with great success. 

The ability given to the Nebula-class by the changeable pod-module allows the ship to perform almost any mission assigned to it by Starfleet Command.