NOTE: I made this on a game that includes the altered sprites from the Miranda Class (In the thread called 'Help with Importing ships'), I am not sure if it works without those altered sprite files.

//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'tech1' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\techtree) and look for:

fed_defiant.odf 1 fedU_chassis3.odf

add beneath it:

fed_valiant.odf 1 fedU_chassis3.odf


then find:

fed_defiantY.odf 1 fedU_chassis3Y.odf

add beneath it:

fed_valiantY.odf 1 fedU_chassis3Y.odf


//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'freetech' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\techtree) and look for:

fed_defiant.odf 0

add beneath it:

fed_valiant.odf 0


then find:

kli_vorchaY.odf 0

add beneath it:


kli_chancellorY.odf 0




//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'fed_eraudi_yardY' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\odf\system) and go down to the build list:

Replace any "all_delay" entry with "fed_valiantY"


//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'fed_eraudi_yardZ' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\odf\system) and go down to the build list:

Replace any "all_delay" entry with "fed_valiant"


//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'edit_federation_vesselsY2' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\odf\system) and add at the bottom:

item8 = "fed_valiantY.odf"


//*********************************************************************************************************
Open 'edit_federation_vesselsZ2' (C:\Program Files\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3.0\Data\odf\system) and add at the bottom:

item8 = "fed_valiant.odf"