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Icarus Class (3)

Design by M. Christopher Freeman

Type: Surveyor
First commissioned: 2188
Length: 112m
Width: 65m
Height: 49m
Decks: 11
Displacement: 115000t
Complement: 17 officers + 102 crew
Speed: Warp 4 (cruise), Warp 7 (max.), Warp 8 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.5c (max.)
Armament: 4 dorsal & 4 ventral phase cannon banks, 2 forward & 2 aft photon torpedo tubes
Defense: Deflector shield array
Embarked craft: 4 Type-A3 shuttlecraft, 2 experimental X-104 Wasp fighter craft

Development notes The Icarus was originally commissioned as a replacement for the aging Daedalus class. Starfleet engineers developed her as a multifunction ship primarily suited for long-term deep space survey and “second contact” diplomatic missions on the frontier of known space. She is equipped with the latest sensor technology and a deflector array that can also be used as a large sensor platform to carry out survey or picket missions.

Her primary function is to serve three-year or longer semi-autonomous missions beyond contact with Starfleet. The ship has a large cargo bay for both mission cargo and trade goods. The trade goods allow restocking with local planetary inhabitants when supplies run low. Along with the galley and protein resequencers she touts extended ships stores for preservation of food and water, and hydroponics equipment that can easily be set up in the event of a dire food shortage. An extensive machine shop was also added for parts service and fabrication of replacement parts for almost any system on board the ship deep in the frontier where space dock facilities would be a luxury.

Because of the heavy armaments for a ship her size, in times of political dispute or all out war she can be outfitted as a frigate for light combat and escort duty and because of the advanced sensors she can also serve as a picket ship in larger fleet maneuvers. The Icarus carries two newly developed experimental Wasp fighter craft for final field-testing on the frontier, the X-104/G (Krazy Kat) and X-104/H (Ignatz Mouse). X-104/G is armed with standard Starfleet phase weapons and sensors; X-104/H is a test bed for the experimental dilithium-focused laser and a compact long-range sensor system. The “H” is also equipped with a pair of the newly developed small craft Bussard collectors.

Lineage of the Icarus class The Icarus class served Starfleet with distinction through more than 50 years and two refits. The last surviving Icarus class vessel, the U.S.S. Heracles was decommissioned in 2242 and is on display at Smithsonian Institute Spaceflight Museum in orbit at Earth. Below is a complete list of ships of the class.
NCC-212, U.S.S. ICARUS (Commissioned 2188)
NCC-218, U.S.S. HYLAS (Commissioned 2189)
NCC-219, U.S.S. CEPHALUS (Commissioned 2189)
NCC-238, U.S.S. ENDYMION (Commissioned 2191)
NCC-256, U.S.S. ELECTRA (Commissioned 2193)
NCC-260, U.S.S. SISYPHUS (Commissioned 2194)
NCC-279, U.S.S. ADONIS (Commissioned 2196)
NCC-282, U.S.S. PYRAMUS (Commissioned 2196)
NCC-301, U.S.S. ACHILLES (Commissioned 2198, refitted 2204)
NCC-315, U.S.S. IO (Commissioned 2199, refitted 2204)
NCC-331, U.S.S. PENTHESILEIA (Commissioned 2201, refitted 2205)
NCC-344, U.S.S. DIONYSUS (Commissioned 2202, refitted 2206)
NCC-365, U.S.S. ACTAEON (Icarus II model, commissioned 2204)
NCC-396, U.S.S. PENTHEUS (Icarus II model, commissioned 2207)
NCC-404, U.S.S. LAOCOON (Icarus II model, commissioned 2208)
NCC-406, U.S.S. PROCRIS (Icarus II model, commissioned 2208)
NCC-427, U.S.S. SYRINX (Icarus II model, commissioned 2210)
NCC-436, U.S.S. HERACLES (Icarus II model, commissioned 2211, refitted 2233)
NCC-449, U.S.S. ODYSSEUS (Icarus II model, commissioned 2212, refitted 2235)
NCC-454, U.S.S. PERSEUS (Icarus II model, commissioned 2213, refitted 2236)

Kaneda Class

Design by M. Christopher Freeman

Type: Destroyer
First commissioned: 2204
Length: 252m
Width: 132m
Height: 53m
Decks: 14
Displacement: 680000t
Complement: 30 officers + 180 crew
Speed: Warp 5 (cruise), Warp 7 (max.), Warp 8.5 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.5c (max.)
Armament: 2 dual-mounted dilithium-focused laser cannon banks (1 forward dorsal, 1 forward ventral), 2 single-mounted dilithium-focused laser cannons (1 portside aft, 1 starboard aft), 2 photon torpedo tubes (forward ventral side)
Defense: Deflector shield array
Embarked craft: 6 Type-D3 shuttlecraft

Development notes A fleet workhorse of the early 23rd century, the Kaneda class destroyer was designed and built as a small, fast, escort vessel for larger ships or for use in Starfleet battle groups. But also due to its speed and size it was ideal for scout or picket missions.

Though mostly assembled from tested and well-established Starfleet parts and design standards of the time, the Kaneda class had a couple of features that were considered revolutionary; the warp core output injectors and the first field ready dilithium-focused laser cannons. Warp core output injectors – a later version of the NX class warp core output transfer junctions – along the twin engine fairings were designed to constrict and accelerate the plasma flow coming from the warp core to increase the efficiency of the drive. In field tests it was also found that they allowed the engineering team on board much more control over the regulation of the plasma flow.

Kaneda was the first Starfleet vessel armed with dilithium-focused laser cannons. These lasers use a polished dilithium crystal to refocus and amplify the beam fired from a standard high-energy laser. The amplification creates a much more powerful beam than previously used before the advent of plasma and early phased energy weapons. Early tests showed dilithium to be too unstable when exposed to laser light but it was discovered that by modulating the frequency of the laser at very specific wavelengths a stable beam could be established through the dilithium crystal matrix. These lasers replaced the standard phase cannons of previous ships. This technology would be adapted and used for all Starfleet beam weapons until they were eclipsed by the phaser, an evolutionary merging of the early phase weapon technology and the dilithium-focused laser.

Kaneda class vessels served in Starfleet until 2265.

Lineage of the Kandea class The Kaneda class had an initial construction run of 13 ships. The space frame was designed to last upward of 35 years (or more), and expected to be refit at least once. The last surviving Kaneda class vessels, the U.S.S. Watanabe, U.S.S. Kaori, and U.S.S. Yamagata, were decommissioned in 2265.
NCC-366, U.S.S. KANEDA (2204)
NCC-367, U.S.S. TETSUO (2205)
NCC-368, U.S.S. AKIRA (2205)
NCC-371, U.S.S. KIYOKO (2207)
NCC-373, U.S.S. MASARU (2208, refitted 2212)
NCC-378, U.S.S. TAKACHI (2210, refitted 2220)
NCC-379, U.S.S. KEI (2210, refitted 2220)
NCC-385, U.S.S. RYUSAKU (Kaneda II, 2213)
NCC-387, U.S.S. MIYAKO (Kaneda II, 2213)
NCC-390, U.S.S. WATANABE (Kaneda II, 2217)
NCC-399, U.S.S. NEZU (Kaneda II, 2219)
NCC-402, U.S.S. KAORI (Kaneda II, 2223)
NCC-403, U.S.S. YAMAGATA (Kaneda II, 2224)

Designer's notes The Kaneda is a play on the Akira class, a design which I really like. It started as a funny little distraction to kill time in a very strange temporary living situation after I'd evacuated from New Orleans preceding Hurricane Katrina. For anyone not familiar with the movie Akira, for which the Akira class takes its name, Kaneda is Tetsuo/Akira's best friend. The Kaneda class symbol on the mission patch is a stylized version of the pill image on the back of Kaneda's jacket.

Kubrick Class

Design by Robert Heckadon

Type: Mobile observatory
First commissioned: Stardate 6122.5
Length: 271m
Width: 140m
Height: 80m
Decks: 19
Displacement: 1100000t
Complement: 35 officers + 215 crew, evacuation limit: 200
Speed: Warp 6 (cruise), Warp 8 (max.), Warp 8.5 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.2c (max.)
Armament: 4 paired phased proton canons, 4 photon torpedo launchers
Defense: Cast rodinium shields
Embarked craft: Standard shuttlecrafts

“Someday, the children of the new sun will meet the children of the old. I think they will be our friends.” - Dr. Heywood Floyd

The Milky Way galaxy, home to 400 billion stars. So fast that if a ship were able to travel instantly from one star system to another and remain in that system for only 1 second, it would take over 12000 years to visit every single star in the galaxy. To coordinate the mission of exploration and maximize resources, Starfleet uses as its tool, the Kubrick class starship.

The Kubrick class is a mobile observatory that travels through space and scans the cosmos at different vantage points with incredible detail. The ship scans the cosmos with an observatory nacelle located atop of the ship. Aside from stellar phenomenon and oddities, the Kubrick class typically scans for water and M-class environments, valuable minerals and resources such as dilithium, and most importantly radio and subspace radio signals that typically indicates the presences of intelligent life. They then send their findings to Starfleet Command who then sends a ship for a more detailed analysis.

The Kubrick class explores Earth’s constellations, traveling to the stars in those constellations as seen from Earth. Meaning if a ship were exploring the constellation of Ursa Major, also known as the Big Dipper, then the ship travels to the stars that make up the Big Dipper from nearest to Earth to farthest from Earth. With the exception of the prototype ship, the USS Kubrick, the Kubrick class ships are named after Earth’s constellation, and those ships explore the constellations that they are named after. The USS Ursa Major explores the constellation of Ursa Major.

Though having enough room for more than 400 people, the ship has a crew complement of 250. This is because that though it has the same range as the Constitution class starship, but it has less opportunities to reach a safe harbour and layover. The added space is then used for more spare parts, fuel, extra room for crew privacy, and a larger oxygen and vegetable gardens than those used on most starships. As well as room for a nursery, based upon the boomer ships of the 21st and 22nd centuries. Though structurally capable, the ship is not designed for long term combat.

The mobile observatory concept was first tested out with after the death of Admiral Rittenhouse and his failed attempt to take over the Federation with the Star Empire, Starfleet’s first Federation class dreadnought. To ease public concerns, the remaining dreadnoughts which were largely completed were then heavily refitted with the removal of most of its heavy artilleries, and the replacement of its tertiary nacelle with an observation module. But with the Federation class coming under fire from the public and critics even after the refit, Starfleet decided it was best to build a whole new ship, and then commissioned the Kubrick class, named after Stanley Kubrick, the director of the space epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

These ships were then replaced with the newer Constellation class starships.

To Arthur C. Clarke, best of hopes to you in your final journey.

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.

Mapuche Class

Design by Gustavo Castillo

Type: Heavily armed explorer
First commissioned: Stardate 51007.2
Length: 467.5m
Width: 365m
Height: 112.5m
Decks: 18
Complement: 126 officers + 293 crew, evacuation limit: 6000
Speed: Warp 8.5 (cruise), Warp 9.4 (max.), Warp 9.9 (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.7c (max.)
Armament: 13 standard phaser banks, 2 phaser pulse cannons, 4 torpedo launchers
Defense: Extra high dispersion deflector shields, cocoon type
Embarked craft: 10 Type 22 shuttlecraft, 5 Type 31 shuttlecraft (inc. 1 Med-Away), 1 Danube class runabout, 6 Type 18 shuttlepods, 6 workpods

After a series of modifications, the Defiant class turned out to be a success, a trend setter, but not fit enough to be an exploration vessel. Nebula class ships service in Starfleet is already legendary throughout the entire quadrant, but they're not fast nor compact enough. There was a need for a ship with sufficient room for families, holodecks, laboratories, recreation, etc., but with teeth and movement enough to face such foes as the Dominion and their allies. The Mapuche class is an attempt to answer that need. Head designer Dr. August Castle took several features from the Miranda class and combined them with Sovereign technology, the result is a sleek, fast and powerful, yet comfortable starship.

The U.S.S. Mapuche herself, head of the class, fell heroically in battle in the Dominion Wars, not before taking down 4 Breen and 3 Jem'Hadar vessels defending a Cardassian rebel outpost in the Chin'toka system. The other two Mapuche class starships that have been commissioned so far are the U.S.S. Stubborn and U.S.S. Firechild.

"I try to see a little further standing on the shoulders of giants."

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Space Island Class

Design by Robert Heckadon

Type: Peace keeping starbase
First commissioned: 2241
Length: 459m
Width: 658m
Height: 330m
Decks: 83
Displacement: 2100000t
Complement: 125 officers + 1125 crew, evacuation limit: 6000
Speed: Warp (cruise), Warp (max.), Warp (max. emergency)
Sublight speed: 0.001c (max.)
Armament: 12 phasers, 2 banks each; 4 photon torpedo launchers, 250 photon torpedoes.
Defense: Cast rodinium shields, magnetic radiation shields
Embarked craft: 10 standard shuttles, 4 cargo shuttles

“For he is a man who can stop the world from blowing up, but it is up to the people to keep the world from blowing up.” - Why The World Needs Superman by Lois Lane

In the early to mid 21st century, the Space Island Project used the external fuel tanks of space shuttles to construct relatively large scale space stations in Earth’s orbit. In the mid 23rd century, this concept of a new class of fully manned space stations that are needed to stabilize a region of space, but the region of space is deemed too unstable to risk a fully manned space station. Thus enter the Space Island class starbase.

First introduced in 2241, the Space Island class is a modular space station designed to stabilize a region of space by giving different worlds a place to work out their differences peacefully. Aside for being a home for 1250 officers and crew, and over 1000 diplomats, businesspersons, and explorers, it is designed to be transported in separate modules by standard tug/transport ships and assembled within a matter of days. And in the event that the situation goes so critical that it is totally unsafe for a Starfleet presence, the space station can be disassembled and returned to Federation space in a matter of days.

The Space Island class is divided up into 12 modules, which are constructed safely in Federation space and transported to their destination outside of Federation space by standard tug/transport ships, including the Ptolemy class, Sachsahuaman class and Fisher class transport ships. Once there, they only require as little as 6 days to set up the starbase. Assembling the modules into the space station takes only 24 to 48 hours, often averaging 37.7 hours. And the remainder of the 6 days is spent bringing the station’s 2 matter/antimatter reactors online, full diagnostics of all key systems, crew orientation, current situation analysis, and the installation of the station's solar collectors.

In the event that the political situation deteriorates beyond recovery, the station can be disassembled and returned to Federation space in only a matter of days, while only sacrificing the station's solar collectors. To this date, this has yet to happen. Though there have been incidences of these space stations being in combat.

The stations modules are based upon the 200 metre long, 40 metre diameter transport containers for both the ease of construction and transportation of the disassembled space station. The station has 12 modules, 1 command module, 1 engineering module, 2 service modules, and 8 habitat modules.

The command module is essentially the heart of the whole station. Along with the main command centre located at the top, the command module houses offices and administrative support, tactical stations and situation analysis, as well as meeting rooms for commercial and political negotiations. And as expected, more than half of the profanity usage on the station occurs here. The engineering module houses the matter/antimatter reactors and the fuel, as well as the power and system control rooms. Before the journey, the engineering module is attached to the command module on the bottom for easier transit and reduced assembly time. The stations solar collectors are attached to the bottom of the station, and they require special transport. The 2 service modules, which extends on either side of the command module, contains the station’s shuttle bays, cargo holds, fabrication centres, recycling and the primary artillery. The station’s total firepower is listed as being over 3 times that of a Constitution class starship. The 8 habitat modules, 4 on each of the service modules, provides living quarters and suites for the guests, crew, and general population. They also contain entertainment and recreation for the entire population of the station. Starship docking ports are located on the habitat modules.

After a region of space has been stabilized, the Space Island class then coordinates the set up of refuelling stations and other space stations in the region, then coordinates the construction of larger starbases, including the Watchtower class, in other star systems in the region of space.

The Space Island class has also inspired other modular, transportable space stations including the Somalia class famine relief station, the Arthur C. Clarke science station, and Deep Space 1. Critics have stated that the Watchtower class starbase, like Starbase 47, Vanguard Station, is more suited for the task of stabilizing a region of space. However the political situation can change drastically within a matter of weeks, and it takes about 4 years to properly build a Watchtower class starbase, and 2 years if it were rushed.

The number of new Space Island class space stations dropped drastically when Excelsior class starships became as much of a frequent site as the Constitution and Enterprise class use to be. And the numbers finally ceased with the introduction of the Ambassador class starship.

Notes Since the solar collectors can pivot a full 360 degrees on the X and Y axis, the dimension of the space station are with the solar collectors perpendicular to the service modules, and parallel to the command module for maximum XYZ dimensions of the space station.

Designer's note This space station is free for anyone for non-commercial use, including fan sites, fan fictions and so forth. Commercial use requires permission.

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