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21st and 22nd Century, 23rd Century, DY Starship Family

Aquashuttle

Design by Kris, ASDB Member

No specs available

The Aquashuttle is based on a design from the TAS episode "The Ambergris Element".

Avenger Class (2)

Design by Daniel Gerson

Type: Fast destroyer
First commissioned: 2275
Length: 298m
Width: 95m
Height: 45m
Decks: 15
Displacement: 480.000t
Complement: 5 officers + 137 crew, evacuation limit: 210
Speed: Warp 6.4 (cruise), Warp 7.8 (max.), Warp 9.2 (max. emergency)
Armament: 2x Type-VIII double phaser emitters (saucer); 2x Mark III single fire photon torpedo launcher (fore/aft)
Defense: 4x Type-VIII single phaser emitters (saucer)
Embarked craft: 2x Workbee 1x Type 3 Shuttlecraft

The Avenger Mk. II refit, commonly known as the Avenger II, is a swift, capable Starfleet destroyer of the later half of the 23rd century. The original vessel, a highly capable, long range destroyer, was perfect for guarding the borders of the Federation and providing supporting fire for its larger comrades during full-scale fleet engagements. The Avenger-II built greatly upon these abilities, adding tremendous versatility to the class. A pair of sleek new Pegasus-V Warp nacelles provided a marked improvement in both engine efficiency and maximum velocity and cruise speed. Retooled impulse drives standard with the refit provide a 17.4% speed increase over the stock model at sublight speeds, allowing the ship to slightly best the Miranda and Constitution-refit classes acceleration up to top speed. 2 refurbished torpedo tubes provide heavy punch, while 6 phaser emitters of both double and single varieties provide all-around coverage. The ship has greatly enhanced capabilities in terms of cargo and shuttle space. Modernization and alteration to the ship's shape allowed two shuttlebays to be installed, one in the engineering hull in the traditional down style, along with two overhead hatch shuttlebays aboard the saucer. This makes the ship excellent for quick strike missions; the Avenger II can punch through enemy lines, leaving its slower allies to engage enemy forces, and disgorge multiple shuttlecraft before retreating, allowing strike teams or essential supplies to be ferried to a friendly installation or colony. The Avenger-II increasingly sees frontline service and is a favorite to supplement the larger Constitution. It is not uncommon to see several Avengers paired with two Mirandas and a single Constitution or larger ship in Starfleet battle groups. With the introduction of the new, fantastic generation of starships heralded by the Excelsior, the Avenger-II is likely to be shifted to less high priority duties, but will certainly remain a valuable fleet asset for years to come.

Thanks to USS Paladin of SCN for his description.

Cardinal Class

Design by Mark, ASDB Member

Medium cruiser
Commissioned: 2256-2309
Length: 258m
Decks: 15
Mass: 881,500mt
Crew complement: 310
Speed: Warp 7.2 (max. cruise)

Commissioned about a decade after Constitution, this class is designated as a medium cruiser. It shares a few similar design elements to Constitution.

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Carpathia Class

Design by John Bullerwell

Type: Luxury liner
First commissioned: 2297
Length: 330m
Width: 107m
Height: 60m
Decks: 12
Complement: officers + 390 crew, evacuation limit: 3500
Speed: Warp 5 (cruise), Warp 7 (max.), Warp 8.2 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.65c (max.)
Armament: Standard phasers, 2 banks each fore and aft; 1 bank dorsal
Defense: Standard deflector shields
Embarked craft: 8 Type C shuttlecraft

A luxury liner designed for the Federation by the San Francisco Fleet Yards civilian design division. Sporting the latest in late 23rd century luxury amenities, it is designed for medium to long range cruise voyages in core Federation space.

Condor Class

Design by Edymnion

Type: Explorer
First commissioned: 2287
Length: 249m
Width: 236m
Height: 64m
Decks: 14
Displacement: 855000t
Complement: 6 officers + 350 crew, evacuation limit: 600
Speed: Warp 6.5 (cruise), Warp 9.2 (max.), Warp 9.6 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.5c (max.)
Armament: 6 type-7 phaser banks (4 foreword, 2 aft), 4 pulsed phaser cannons (2 forward, 2 aft), 3 photon torpedo launchers (2 forward, 1 aft)
Defense: Standard deflector shield arrays
Embarked craft: 2 shuttlecraft

After the failure of the U.S.S. Excelsior's transwarp technology in 2285, Starfleet engineers turned to making a high warp capable ship using existing technologies. They began with the basic frame of the most reliable starship class to date, the Miranda, and began work. Two years later, the U.S.S. Condor launched from the Utopia Planitia shipyards in Mars orbit. The Condor class featured a combined primary and secondary hull, four high efficiency warp nacelles, and a pair of high power impulse engines along with an interchangeable sensor/weapons pod similar to that of the ship's inspiration, the Miranda. The aft of the ship also contains a shuttle bay, containing up to two shuttlecraft for planetary ferrying and short-range recon.

Capable of extended periods of high warp travel and enough sublight power to overcome any foreseeable disturbance, it was hoped that the Condor class would help push back the boundaries of explored space. However, that was not to be. The Condor quickly became the butt of many jokes for being engine overkill, that no starship would need that much engine power under normal circumstances. Which, as was the case, was quite true. The relaunch of the Excelsior line and subsequent advances in warp technology rendered the class obsolete before its time. While the line did see use as a long-range exploration vehicle, several of which gained a measure of notoriety, it was mainly relegated to boarder patrol.

Of all the Condors created, the majority of them are still in commission well into the 24th century serving a variety of purposes. Many still patrol the outlying boarders of the Federation or make relay runs between the Deep Space stations, several of which were present in the fleet to retake the Deep Space Nine station during the Dominion War. Some of the less fortunate Condors have also been demoted to the status of a tug ship because of the strength of their sublight engines. A rather ignoble end for a ship that once held so much promise.

Cymru Class

Design by James Donovan

Frigate
In service: 2267-2315
Length: 287m
Beam: 141.7m
Draft: 48.5m
Mass: 155,000 t
Decks: 11
Speed: Warp 7 (std.), Warp 9 (max.)
Crew complement: 165

No description

Dragonfly Class

Design by Tony Lee Jones

Type: Marine patrol/assault ship
First commissioned: 2285
Length: 105m
Width: 80m
Height: 25m
Decks: 3
Displacement: 18000t
Complement: 4 officers + 16 crew, evacuation limit: 30
Speed: Warp 8 (cruise), Warp 9 (max.), Warp 9.5 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.99c (max.)
Armament: Ten type 7 phaser emitters; three MK 7 phaser pulse cannons; four MK 10 photon torpedo tubes
Defense: Type 3 defensive shield; detection countermeasures; exterior ablative armor hull coating
Embarked craft: None

The Dragonfly series assault ships were designed to transport and deploy two squads of marine light infantry. The squads double as the ships crew. Dragonflies can operate alone or in groups. For long distance deployment, they can be loaded into special containers and taken anywhere by Starfleet transports. They can also deploy troops in deep space on directly on to surface engagements.

For Joey and Wade. Thanx!

Explorer Class (1)

Design by Chris Talbot

Commissioned: 2197-2223
Length: 263m
Beam: 139m
Height: 35m
Decks: 11
Mass: 420,000mt
Crew: 345
Speed: Warp 5.5 (cruise), Warp 6.5 (max.)

The Explorer class is designed to bridge the gap between NX class and Consitution class, showing a clear design lineage.

Explorer Class (2)

Design by Mark, ASDB Member

Surveyor
Commissioned: 2196-2244
Length: 271m
Decks: 13
Mass: 1,250,000mt
Crew complement: 390
Speed: Warp 5.2 (old scale)

The Explorer Class was one's typical long range explorer, replacing the likes of the ageing Daedalus and Gagarin Classes that went before it. A major step forward in weapons research at around this time saw this class as the prototype for first elementary rapid nadion phaser arrays. Even though many times less powerful than one of today's Galaxy-class emitters, they still provided a significant advantage in both energy efficiency and power output (about a megawatt), compared to the earlier phaser cannons that endured for the previous couple of decades. Another interesting thing of note, the dedication plaque on the USS Explorer bridge read, "A swift wind for those on foot, at sea, or in the firmament, who seek out new life, and new lands...." This was a twist of the famous words, first spoken by Dr Cochrane: 'to boldly go where no man has gone before,' and 'to seek out new life and new civilisations...' This philosophy embodied the original Starfleet charter, a directive which dominated the principle behind the Federation's expanding charter going into the 23rd century.

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Grief Class

Design by James Donovan

In service: 2269-2300
Length: 279m
Beam: 165m
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 9 (max.)
Mass: 205,000t
Crew complement: 25 officers, 70 crew

No description

Hayes Class

Design by Robert Heckadon

Type: Battleship
First commissioned: Stardate 6313.3
Length: 235m
Width: 97m
Height: 47m
Decks: 16
Displacement: 420000t
Complement: 30 officers + 220 crew
Speed: Warp 5 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.), Warp 8.6 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.9c (max.)
Armament: 5 phasers, 2 banks each; 4 photon torpedoes
Defense: Cast rodinium deflector shields

Vice Admiral Rittenhouse is dead. And with him, his plans against the Federation. The Star Empire, the first Federation class dreadnought, which was both Rittenhouse’s ultimate weapon and the instrument of his downfall, has been decommissioned and recycled. And from the advise of Captain James T. Kirk, Commodore Stephen Harper was “asked” to resign from Starfleet, for he urged the Federation council to use Vaughan Rittenhouse’s dreadnoughts as powerful military deterrents, that would instead spark an intergalactic “cold war.”

The Federation class dreadnought program was then cancelled with the 3 partially completed dreadnought being “disarmed” and converted to extremely long range exploration cruisers. Replacing the heavy artilleries and shields with science labs, fuel refineries, and cryogenic sleeping chambers. Though being able to travel to parts of the galaxy where the Constitution class can’t, it is no longer combat effective.

But some increasing tensions between the Federation and the Klingons convinced Starfleet to commission ships that would double as MACO transport ships and as battleships that were as combat effective as the Constitution class, but also with the intent that the ship would not accidentally spark a conflict it was meant to stop. Thus brings forth the introduction of the Hayes class battleship.

The Hayes class battleship was named after Major Joshua Hayes, who commanded the MACO team assigned to the NX-01 Enterprise during the mission in the Delphic Expanse more than 100 years before. First constructed on star date 6313.3, the 5 Hayes class ships in service were named after MACOs and Starfleet personnel killed in action during that mission, including Major Hayes himself.

U.S.S. Hayes NCC-1925
U.S.S. Hawkins NCC-1926
U.S.S. Fuller NCC-1927
U.S.S. Taylor NCC-1928
U.S.S. Ramira NCC-1929

The ship has 5 phasers, 2 banks each, as well as 4 photon torpedo launchers. However the total firepower of this battleship is only equal to that of the Constitution class. Rather than the triple layered shields that were part of the dreadnoughts specifications, the Hayes class has standard shields, but due to its smaller size it can withstand strikes longer than the Constitution class.

The battleship was designed for a standard compliment of 30 officers and 220 crew. But the interiors are easily adjustable to handle 30 officers, 170 crew, and over 200 MACOs. There are very few recreation centres on the ship since it was not built for long range tactical operations.

The ships impulse and warp engines are nothing spectacular. Standard FWF-4 warp drive units with a maximum speed of warp 8.6, and an impulse acceleration factor equivalent to the Constitution class. As with most Starfleet vessels, including the Constitution class, the Hayes class uses a series of gyroscopic thrusters to allow the ship to yaw, pitch and roll without using exhaust or propellants. But they differ to other gyroscopic thrusters that are used by the Constitution class and other starships. They are designed to spin 4 times faster for greater thrust, but as a result, the thrusters tritanium structure contains 40% more carbon nanotubes than normal in order to handle the stress.

Often these 5 ships are seen patrolling the Klingon and Romulan boarders, and still have yet to be used as MACO transport ships. After the U.S.S. Ramira, no more Hayes class starships were constructed, nor had any gone under any significant refitting outside of upgrading the photon torpedoes. The last of the Hayes class was decommissioned on star date 9821.1.

The name “Joshua” for the confirmed J. Hayes is just a random name. Not to be declared canon.

Icarus Class (2)

Design by Belz...

Name: USS Icarus NCC-2300
Type: Explorer
First commissioned: 2302
Length: 310m
Width: 151m
Height: 68m
Decks: 19
Complement: 80 officers + 395 crew
Speed: Warp 7 (cruise), Warp 8.4 (max.), Warp 8.7 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.65c (max.)
Armament: 5 phaser arrays, 3 photon torpedo launchers
Embarked craft: 8 shuttlecraft, 4 shuttlepods

During the test flights of the Excelsior in 2284-86, Starfleet was considering retiring their 40 year-old design, the Constitution-class. Already refitted several times, the veteran design was no longer suited for long-range exploration missions. Although the Excelsior's new warp engine was meant to make travel times shorter, the increasing volume of the Federation and the sheer bulk of the new transwarp engines meant that the Constitution design was no longer viable. Because the Excelsior was not originally scheduled for mass production, a new design, based on the "Great Experiment", was ordered. Initial plans for the new ship called for a 420m spaceframe that would carry heavier tactical systems. Before the Khitomer conference, Starfleet was concerned about renewed Klingon activity near the Organian treaty border, especially following the Genesis incident. However, economic considerations made production of the design difficult, and it never developed beyond the drawing board.

Starfleet instead asked for a starship closer in size to the venerable Constitution, but administrative lobbying delayed the process for several years. Following the explosion of Praxis, the Klingons became less of a threat, but tensions rose rapidly with the Romulans who were concerned about a possible alliance between their two rivals. Although this would not materialise until much later, the Empire would not be a major foe until 2337. Still, regular raids by the Orion and Gorn, combined with the Romulan threat, finally convinced Starfleet that it was in dire need of new designs, and though the Excelsior and the Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) were now in active service, it would take the inclusion of the mineral-rich Betazed and Bolarus into the federation to make possible the mass production of the huge vessels of that class.

In order to bring new blood into the fleets as early as possible, Starfleet decided to attempt one, final upgrade to the Constitution-class. Although the class was scheduled for complete deactivation by 2305, this was deemed an economic solution at first. It soon became clear, however, that the new technologies and techniques included in the proposed plans would require a completely new ship. Remembering well the lessons of the 2270 upgrade, the Federation opted for a new designation instead of an overhaul on existing ships, and called for the construction of a prototype for the new class, Icarus.

Completed in 2302, the Icarus was a satisfactory design, though Starfleet engineers had hoped more from the advanced engines based on the Excelsior trials. When the ship was cleared for production, so many suggestions, changes and adjustments were made that a whole new ship was eventually drawn, and what would come out of the assembly lines in 2308 would become one of the United Federation of Planet's most successful starship class: the Ambassador.

Only one Icarus was ever built, but that prototype served the Starfleet for 31 years, and the ship and its crew were decorated several times. The vessel's unique, beige paint scheme was only used for a few years, however, on other contemporary designs.

Technology and abilities The Icarus incorporates several innovations that would later become standard during the 24th century. First, the ship was the first to include a modular bridge system, allowing the ship's interface and command stations to be upgraded in minutes. The Icarus' large impulse engines allow unprecedented sublight speeds, though the introduction of the Ambassador's revolutionary fusion reactors, allowing for much smaller engines for greater performances, would soon overshadow this accomplishment. Its warp engines, the last of their kind, would carry the Icarus faster than any other before, though by today's standard they were particularly harmful to the subspace fabric. Also notable was the presence of two separate engineering rooms, one for the impulse control and one for the warp drive, something that had not been seen since the first few ships of the Constitution class.

The most remarkable addition to the ship is its five phaser arrays. Indeed, the Icarus prototype was the very first design to be fitted with phaser "strips". Unfortunately, the size of the strips created phase-distribution problems that would only be solved with much more recent designs such as the Nebula. The Ambassador-class mounted truncated strips, and the usefulness of that compromise was debatable. The Icarus' shield grid was also improved over previous designs, providing increased distance between the shield itself and the hull. The starship also included improved RCS thrusters and transporter emitters.

Although the Icarus herself was never considered a great achievement, the technologies and techniques incorporated into the vessel proved instrumental to the development of the current starships of the Federation, and is listed as the first important design of the 24th century.

Illustrious Class (2)

Design by Nixon's Head

Type: Through-deck cruiser
First commissioned: 2248
Length: 240m
Width: 129m
Height: 56m
Decks: 16
Complement: 70 officers + 680 crew, evacuation limit: 3250
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 7.5 (max.), Warp 7.8 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.5c (max.)
Armament: 3 phaser banks of 2 turrets each, capable of 850 kW maximum single emitter output. One photon torpedo launcher in the forward firing arc.
Defense: Defensive shield systems to exceed 3.5 x 104 kW primary energy dissipation rate.
Embarked craft: 15 Sparrowhawk fighters, 8 standard personnel shuttles, 4 cargo shuttles (nominal air wing c.2255)

Jefferies-Type Shuttle

Design by Matt Jefferies and Kris, ASDB Member

No specs available

The shuttle "Jefferies" is closely based on Matt Jefferies' sketches for a shuttle that was never built (because the curved shape would have been too expensive).

Lifeboats

Designs by Harry and Kris, ASDB Members

No specs available

TOS-era ships supposedly had lifeboats. Here are possible designs.

Luxor Class

Design by Fajtner Gyula

Type: Heavy science cruiser
First commissioned: 2295
Length: 270.2m
Width: 126.243m
Height: 63m
Decks: 18
Displacement: 870000t
Complement: 50 officers + 330 crew, evacuation limit: 590
Speed: Warp 7.0 (cruise), Warp 7.3 (max.), Warp 8.4 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.395c (max.)
Armament: 10 dual phaser banks, 2fore/2aft torpedo tubes
Defense: Shield system that has weak shields, but faster than normal recharge rate because of the extensive shield grid over the ship's hull
Embarked craft: 6 shuttles, 8 max.

The Luxor class began as a project to incorporate state of the art technologies into a ship that would complement the Constitution, Miranda, Constellation and Excelsior classes and take workload off of them. The ship was designed to utilize the same warp bubble dynamics that was extensively tested on the Constitution class because the frame was real-time tested for hundreds of thousands light years, which made the Luxor similar in shape. The experimental NX-3200 was launched in 2287 and was found to be promising. That eventually resulted in variants of nearly every class type in small numbers. The NCC-3200 was launched in 2295, 3 years after the Enterprise-B, and further 4 ships followed. They where attached to Federation's 7th Fleet. They received a major refit in 2315 after 20 years of successful operation. It comprised a new vertical intermix shaft, which replaced the huge impulse crystal with two small ones, improved weapons, shields and the aft saucer docking ports where replaced for Workbee bays.

The 5 ship fleet was mothballed in 2335. They where refitted with modern weapons and relaunched during the Dominion War, where all 5 ships were lost in combat operations.

Nemesis and Talon Classes

Designs by Steve Yousten

Nemesis
Type: Destroyer
Length: 245m
Width: 111m
Height: 74m
Crew: 280
Max. speed: Warp 5.7

Talon
Type: Destroyer
Length: 189m
Width: 111m
Height: 60m
Crew: 170
Max. speed: Warp 6.0

By 2284, with the construction of the U.S.S. Excelsior, the end of the “Golden Age” of the Constitution class was at hand. Two years later, two things happened to change all that.

In 2286, while conducting research on the Genesis Planet, U.S.S. Grissom was attacked and destroyed by a Klingon Bird of Prey. Shortly thereafter, U.S.S. Enterprise was stolen from port by then-Admiral James T. Kirk. When Excelsior gave chase, a complete failure of her engines created an embarrassing situation (to put it diplomatically).

While Excelsior’s engine shutdown turned out to be an act of sabotage, it set off signal flairs at Starfleet Command. Long known for it’s conservative views, the Admiralty was no longer comfortable “putting all its eggs in one basket,” with the innovative Excelsior-class. The need to answer the threat of cloaked enemy starships in Federation space led to the development of the Nemesis and the Talon^1.

For the better part of the 20th Century, Earth navies had used submarines to threaten shipping and attack from hiding. To counteract the submarine menace, destroyers were developed. These small, fast ships used SONAR, at the time a relatively new technology using echolocation, to detect enemy submarines. When the destroyer had located a sub, either by triangulating signals from multiple sources, or taking multiple readings from different locations, she would close with the sub and drop a blanket of depth charges to destroy her. Depth charges were a timed (later pressure sensitive) charge that would generate a tremendous concussive force that would sink the sub.

Roughly comparable to the Asia and Eclipse classes, the Nemesis and the Talon housed a beefed-up forward sensor array, as well as a large torpedo bay. Early versions used a standard photon torpedo with a proximity fuse and were fired in a broad spread, “blanketing” the target. Later, a torpedo was developed that would home in on a Bird of Prey’s plasma trail, making covert actions against the Federation foolhardy, at best².

The success of the destroyer proved to be it’s undoing. With the advent of the Nemesis and the Talon, stealth attacks and incursions became a suicidal endeavor and quickly ceased, and neither ship was built in great numbers. This, combined with the end of hostilities with the Klingons and the continued absence of the Romulans, sounded the death knell for their primary mission as a military ship. However, their advanced sensors arrays lent themselves to scientific observation, while her weapons made her a safer choice for uncharted territories than a predominantly scientific vessel like the Oberth. And their size made them an ideal choice for areas where an Excelsior-class would not have been economically practical, or necessary, while their older technology, relied largely on prepositioned parts, making them simpler to maintain in backwater areas. (Although their necessarily cramped space and Spartan accommodations made them unpopular with crewmen accustomed to the “luxury” of an Excelsior or even a Constitution-class refit).

The last in a long line of paired starships, ushered in by the Asia and Eclipse classes, and following on the heels of the Constitution and Miranda classes; the Nemesis and Talon classes provide an interesting footnote to the Golden Age of Starfleet shipbuilding.

1: It is ironic that Starfleet should give two of her destroyers, the Talon, and the Hawk, names related to birds of prey, when there purpose was to hunt and destroy Birds of Prey.

2: It is unclear whether the crew of Enterprise knew about these torpedoes, which were just beginning to be fielded in 2293, or not. At any rate, then-Captain Spock and Commander Leonard McCoy created a field-expedient of this torpedo to destroy a renegade Klingon ship sent to disrupt the Khitomer Accords.

Nikolayev Class

Design by James Donovan

Patrol ship
In service: 2305-2355
Length: 360m
Beam: 90m
Decks: 18
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.), Warp 9 (for 1 hour)
Crew complement: 60 officers, 160 crew

No description

Paladin Class

Design by Mark, ASDB Member

Scout
Commissioned: 2206-2274
Length: 224m
Decks: 8
Mass: 119,000mt
Crew complement: 200
Speed: Warp 6.2 (old scale)

This class of ship replenished the somewhat lacking coverage of the Romulan Neutral Zone border in the early 23rd century. Stationed at Outposts along the Federation side of the Zone, Paladin-class ships covered a wide area as sensor and patrol networks, monitoring the safety of the Zone, and any illegal Romulan activity inside.

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Pre-TOS Ships

Designs by Harry, ASDB Member

No specs available

These are ship designs set in the the mid- to late 22nd century, plus a freighter from the 23rd century, inspired by the TAS style.

Rawalpindi Class

Design by James Donovan

Light cruiser
In service: 2255-2290
Length: 300m
Beam: 125.7m
Draft: 48.5m
Mass: 170,000 t
Decks: 11
Speed: Warp 6 (std.), Warp 8 (max.)
Crew complement: 180

No description

Rovira Class

Spacedock Ship

Design by Kris, ASDB Member

No specs available

This design is based on a skecth made for "Star Trek III" .

TAS Shuttle

Design by Kris, 3D model by Kenny, ASDB Members

No specs available

This shuttle is based on a design from The Animated Series.

Thoth Class

Design by James Donovan

In service: 2289-2320
Length: 320m
16 decks

No description

Type-2 Shuttle

Design by Kris, ASDB Member

No specs available

This shuttle is the predecessor of the type used on the Enterprise NCC-1701. It was in use in the first decades of the 23rd century.

Vanguard Class (1)

Design by John Bullerwell

Type: Scout
First commissioned: 2298
Length: 145m
Width: 106m
Height: 53m
Decks: 9
Complement: 10 officers + 164 crew, evacuation limit: 810
Speed: Warp 7 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.), Warp 9.1 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.66c (max.)
Armament: one torpedo launcher; four standard phaser emitters
Defense: Standard deflector shields
Embarked craft: none

A short-range scout-class ship. Small and efficient, the Vanguard class was designed primarily to supplement stationary outposts such as planetary starbases and colonies, as well as orbital complexes such as stations and drydocks. Based in part on the Excelsior class, its smaller warp engines still provide impressive cruising and emergency warp velocities. Its impulse engines were a testbed of sorts, providing new advances in subspace deceleration that would later be employed in every subsequent Starfleet class. They provide impressive surpluses of energy that lessen the energy requirements of secondary ship systems that would normally have been placed on the vessel's warp core. Initial designs of the class included a small, single vehicle shuttlebay located in the lower pylon, but this feature was eliminated because of its small profile and intricate position. (It was planed to be locate on the fore side, directly above the redesigned navigational deflector. The class design has a potential life expectancy of eight decades, though as always, this will be subject to current technologies and future technological breakthroughs.

Vega Class

Design by Nixon's Head

Type: Frigate
First commissioned: 2250
Length: 274m
Width: 198m
Height: 60m
Decks: 17
Complement: 50 officers + 200 crew, evacuation limit: 600
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.)
Sublight speed: 0.4c (max.)
Armament: 6 phasers, 1 photon torpedo launcher
Defense: Standard defensive shields
Embarked craft: 4 standard shuttlecraft

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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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