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Delphis (II) Class

Design by Michael Dugas

Type: Large exploratory cruiser (CKE)
First commissioned: 2384
Length: 717m
Width: 275m
Height: 80m
Decks: 26
Displacement: 4390000t
Complement: 145 officers + 455 crew, evacuation limit: 5700
Speed: Warp 9.20 (cruise), Warp 9.90 (max.), Warp 9.985 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.95c (max.)
Armament: Type XII phaser ring; Type XV pulse phaser cannon; Mk 80 photon torpedoes; Type IV quantum torpedoes
Defense: CIDSS-5 deflector; FSQ-4 shields; FPCE-2 cloaking technology
Embarked craft: runabouts (2), shuttles - cargo (5), shuttles - personnel (5), shuttlepods (10), Valkyrie fighters (12)

The Delphis (II) class cruiser was developed as one of the possible classes to succeed the Galaxy class cruiser as the flagship the fleet. It was developed jointly with the Nova, Intrepid, and Sovereign classes. Incorporating a revolutionary warp nacelle design, the Delphis (II) class embraced the concepts of the variable geometry warp drive, without the vulnerabilities of having to move the actual warp nacelles.

With the selection of the Sovereign class as the newest USS Enterprise, and the successful trials of the Intrepid class, the Delphis project was quickly falling out of the race. The destruction of the first Delphis class ship, the USS Delphis [NX 71000] during spaceframe trials was the final blow against the project. However, the ASDB had almost completed the second spaceframe [NX 71001] and was given the green light to complete and test the vessel. The first operational Delphis class ship, USS Alexandretta [NCC 71001] was quietly commissioned and completed her initial 2 year shakedown cruise before being lost in the Gamma Quadrant. The ASDB developed a second ship for additional testing, USS White Star [NX 71012]. The White Star was commissioned and has been serving Starfleet with honor.

Horizon Class

Design by David Bernard-Stevens

Type: Long-range explorer
First commissioned: 2381
Length: 481m
Width: 204m
Height: 90m
Decks: 16
Displacement: 1890000t
Complement: 112 officers + 250 crew, evacuation limit: 1850
Speed: Warp 9.4 (cruise), Warp 9.9 (max.), Warp 9.99 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.75c (max.)
Armament: 3 Type X phaser arrays, 4 Type VIII phaser arrays, photon/quantum torpedo launchers (depending on loadout)
Defense: Standard shields and armour
Embarked craft: 4 Type 11 shuttles, equipment to construct custom shuttlecraft as needed.

The Horizon class is intended to supplement the existing Luna class exploration vessels in particularly long-range missions. Intended to develop the best aspects of the Luna class while incorporating several suggested improvements, the Horizon focuses more on speed, sensor capability, and defensive systems rather than tactical systems to avoid dangerous situations. The Horizon class also has increased capacity for longer duration survey missions well beyond explored Federation space, which effectively complements the Luna's "trailblazing" missions.

Independence Class

Design by Sam Kowal

Type: Enhanced deterrence explorer
First commissioned: 2517
Length: 794m
Width: 478m
Height: 98m
Decks: 14
Displacement: 5333000t
Complement: 350 officers + 1100 crew, evacuation limit: 18000
Speed: QV 3 (cruise), QV (max.), QV 4.95 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.9999c (max.)
Armament: 10x Type XV monophasic emitters, 4x graviton torpedo launchers, 4x transphasic torpedo launchers, polaron beam emitter
Defense: Chronophasic shield generator (Capacity 5,312,000,000 terajoules), yiterium hull, 1cm tribaltic armor, polaric molecular bond enhancer

The Independence class starship was introduced on Stardate 194038.35. Increased concerns of confrontation with the "Sphere Builders" forced Starfleet to testbed many new technologies in the Independence class. With the loss of the Enterprise-H in a skirmish with the Seronites, Starfleet approved the commission of the second Independence class starship, the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-I on Stardate 194586.19. The Enterprise and her sister ship, the USS Independence NX-307781 (registry later changed to NCC), were out fitted with the new technology, including the newly developed 

Chronophasic shielding: Upon impact, these shields spread damage out over not only the physical area of the shield but across time, and across several phases, significantly reducing the load on the shield. 

Yterium: Modern crystalline metal developed by Starfleet Quantum Mechanics department. Element no. 174.

Tribaltic armor: Incredibly dense boson condensate, and incredibly resilient to change in state, a single cm of the armor will dissipate the energy of an attack across the entire hull.

Polaric bond enhancer: Essentially an ultra-SIF that works on a much much finer level, increasing the bond between the subatomic particles that make up atoms.

Quantum drive: A new generation of quantum slip stream drive, allows the ship to travel at unimaginable speeds. The invention of the quantum drive several decades earlier, caused for a new warp scale to become employed. 

QV stands for Quantum Velocity: 
QV 1 = Warp 9.9 
QV 2 = Warp 9.99 
QV 3 = Warp 9.999 
QV 4 = Warp 9.9999 
QV 5 = Warp 9.99999 
QV 6 = Warp 9.999999 
QV 7 = Warp 9.9999999 
QV 8 = Warp 9.99999999 
QV 9 = Warp 9.999999999 

Despite being labeled an enhanced deterrence explorer, the ships secondary mission is more militaristic, so the ship is complemented by Starfleet's finest weaponry including most notably the graviton torpedo. This device works by disrupting the gravitons in an enemy vessels hull, causing the ship to come apart at a subatomic level. This ship represents the finest Starfleet has to offer. May it soar many long years exploring our universe, and defending the Federation's citizens, and the freedoms they enjoy.

MOBAS Type 21 - Scimitar 

Design by Brian Mitchell

Type: Heavy armor attack vehicle
Crew: 2 (tactical commander/gunner and pilot) 
Endurance: 8 hrs (combat); 14 hrs (operational) 
Combat cruise: 175 km/h, combat maximum: 220 km/h, operational cruise: 250 km/h (defensive mode only), operational maximum: 315 km/h (70 minutes to overheat)

A variant (type 24 MLMS) replaces the standard phaser turret with a long-range missile system capable of global strike and anti-ship operations; basic operational capability equivalent to base model.

Power system:
Gravity-stabilized high-rated fusion unit feeding two anti-gravity-thrust engines 
Dual stage krellide power cells for back-up power supply 

Additional systems:
Multi-wave gravimetric scanner and all-aspect targeting system 
Command interlink coordination and information sharing secure communication link 
Beta-wave stealth mode diffusion system (camo V-rated protection system)

The type 21 HAAV is the latest development for planetary operation in the UFP. The type 21 combines the latest technologies in weapon and tactical systems with a strong combat structure. The type 21 will be the center of planetary assault operations in the late 24th century. 

Planetary Operations Drop Craft & Brigade Planetary Command Post

Design by Brian Mitchell

The planetary operations drop craft (brigade planetary command post) is the current mobile command post vehicle for planetary operations. The multi-functional design enables it to perform command and control for planet-wide combat operations. The modular design makes it possible to configure the craft for command operation, operational support, emergency/medical support, and tactical control support (this version controls the heavy weapons system). The passenger complement ranges from 16 to 24 officers and technical specialists, depending on configuration.

Prince Edward Island Class

Design by Robert Heckadon

Type: Lighthouse
First commissioned: 1124.1
Length: 279m
Width: 52m
Height: 169m
Decks: 10
Complement: 10 officers + 40 crew
Sublight speed: 0.001c (max.)
Armament: none
Defense: Magnetic radiation shields
Embarked craft: 1 docking shuttle

“All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream?” - Edgar Allen Poe

Inspirations for mysteries and ghost stories, lighthouses have been guiding sailing ships to safe harbours for many years. Over time, lighthouses have been replaced with radio beacons and then with the global positioning system (GPS). But lighthouses have been making a comeback in the mid 23rd century to bring transport ships and civilian vessels to save harbour, all beginning with the Prince Edward Island class.

The Prince Edward Island class space station is both a space traffic control centre and a subspace navigation beacon transmitter station. With the use of 4 large subspace radio transmitters at the bottom of the station, it emits a homing signal for warp capable starships to follow back to the station’s home star system. This is useful since unlike Starfleet exploration vessels, such as the Constitution class, most civilian and transport ships rely upon tachyon sonar, visual sensors, and subspace radio for navigation.

The station's transmitters are powered by 4 nuclear reactors located in a circular structure above the transmitters, with the deuterium fuel supply located in the stations vertical shafts. Though quite capable of tapping fusion energy from the reactors, the stations primary systems, such as life support and gravity, are primarily powered by solar energy which is collected by 2 pairs of photoelectric panels on either side of the stations habitat section.

Atop of the station is a rotating mirror. Mostly for nostalgic reasons, and for the reason the station is called a lighthouse, the mirror reflects sunlight to give it visually appealing pulses of light. The mirror’s rotation is maintained by a device once referred to as a flywheel and kept spinning by inertia.

Lacking a shuttle bay, the space station has 4 docking ports with one docking port manned at all times by an impulse docking shuttle. Another docking port is actually an umbilical connection used by supply ships to replenish the station’s resources. This includes atmosphere, water, and fuel.

The range of the station’s navigation signal depends on the ships receiving the signal. According to Starfleet regulations, the lighthouse’s navigational signal must be strong enough for civilian and transport ships to detect it 30 lightyears away. With the same intensity, military ships can detect the signal 50 lightyears away. Heavy cruisers and explorers at 120 lightyears. And dedicated science vessels at almost 200 lightyears.

Critics of the lighthouse have said that a nuclear powered subspace navigational beacon or a solar powered radio beacon would be just as effective over a manned space station. Though many star systems do use solar and nuclear powered beacons, the lighthouse is a space traffic control centre that both guides and coordinates space traffic throughout the Federation.

After over a hundred years, though new stations have been built, even in the 24th century these stations are indispensable for people traveling within the Federation.

Skipjack Class

Design by Lt.Carter

Type: Patrol frigate
First commissioned: 2307
Length: 314m
Width: 178m
Height: 103m
Decks: 25
Complement: 10 officers + 140 crew, evacuation limit: 150
Speed: Warp 7.8 (cruise), Warp 8.5 (max.), Warp 9.1 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.99c (max.)
Armament: 10 standard phaser banks, 4 photon tubes (2 fore 2 aft)
Defense: standard shield grid
Embarked craft: 6 standard shuttlecraft, 2 aqua shuttles, 4 shuttle pods, 2 work bees.

By the 24th century Starfleet realized the need for a new vessel capable of filling the roll of both patrol ship and frigate. Looking at the Oberth class vessel, a sturdy design, engineers set about building a larger more capable vessel. The skipjack class was the result of 2 years of design and warp dynamic tests at the DSM test facility. Construction of the first vessel was finished in 2307 with 6 other ships proposed. The skipjack NCC-2141 currently patrols 3 star systems along the Romulan neutral zone with the recently built Sculpin NCC-2142, patrolling the Earth-Vulcan route. Both ships being equipped with heavy tractor emitters and a very early form of tachyon sensor palettes.

Inspiration: Beagle NGC-7293 (basic design concept) "abandoned", Dumont by Medjai = (bridge-other details), Oberth by David Carson, Excelsior by Bill George (sensors, warp drive), Ent-B by John Eaves and Herman Zimmerman (warp drive), Schmidt by Robert J. Willson aka xfozzboute (tractor emitter), Chariot by Howard Day (interior textures), Vanguard by Vektors domain (impulse engines, honeycomb pattern), Rick King's modification tips

Yorktown Class

Design by ZardoZ

Type: Cruiser & exploration ship
First commissioned: 2230
Length: 211m
Width: 109m
Height: 51m
Decks: 17
Complement: 220
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.), Warp 8.05 (max. emergency)
Armament: 9 Phased laser turrets Mk I
Defense: Deflector shield system Mk V

Thanks to Masao, for his very hard worked Starfleet Museum, from where his Asia class was the inspiration of this ship. And to the people of Subspace Comms Network forum for their feedback. And finally to my friend Sikileia for his tips, and his opinions.

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