Ship Specifications - USS Challenger

[Dylan Torngate]

USS Challenger

"A profundis Historæ, inla volat iterum"

CLASSIFICATION

Name: USS Challenger
Registry: NCC-40117-A
Class: Trailblazer
Type: Explorer/Support Cruiser

SPECIFICATIONS

Length: 520 meters
Width: 216.52 meters
Height: 90.33 meters
Weight: 3,112,000 metric tons
Cargo capacity: 43,100 metric tons
Number of Decks: 21
Hull Identification Device: HID-10519-236-TB-Blue

ARMOR/SHIELDS

Hull: Duranium hull plating over duranium-tritanium structural members

Ablative Armor: 3 cm Ablative Reinforcements

Standard Shield: Deflector shields (8 layer symmetrical close-field subspace graviton layers), with Point of Impact experimental shield grid.

ENGINES/PERFORMANCE

Normal Cruising Speed: Warp 8.2

Maximum Cruising Speed: Warp 9.88 - For a maximum of 12 Hours.

Warp Core: Joycoms Mark 12 Standard Matter/Antimatter Reaction Drive, based off of
Excelsior-class drives developed by Newport News Engineering Consortium and the Mark 8 improvements made to the Excelsior-refit class.

Impulse Drives: 4 Millennium IX Trailblazer Class Mass Drivers, developed specifically for the Trailblazer class design project.

Normal Impulse Speed: .25 c

Maximum Impulse Speed: 0.994 c

Reaction Control Systems: Several RCS thrusters, each capable of generating 3.8 million Newtons of exhaust in any direction.

Crew Complement: 550 (200 officers, 350 enlisted)

Evacuation Limit: 9800 Souls

TRANSPORTERS

Number of Systems: 12

Personnel Transporters: 6 (Transporter Rooms 1-2 - each with 3 transporter stations)

Max Payload Mass: 800kg (1,763 lbs)
Max Range: 40,000 km
Max Beam Up/Out Rate: Approx. 100 persons per hour per Transporter

Cargo Transporters: 3
Max Payload Mass: 500 metric tons. Standard operation is molecular resolution (Non-Lifeform).
Set for quantum (lifeform) resolution: 1 metric ton
Max Beam Up/Out Rate (Quantum Setting): Approx. 100 persons per hour per Transporter

Emergency Transporters: 3
Max Range: 15,000 km (send only) [range depends on available power]
Max Beam Out Rate: 160 persons per hour per Transporter (560 persons per hour with 4 Emergency Transports

COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

Standard Data Transmission Speed: 18.5 kiloquads per second
Subspace Communications Speed: Warp 9.9997

ARMAMENTS

Phaser Banks: 9 Mk VIII Phaser Turrets

Phaser Bank Locations:  Three dorsal turrets on the saucer section, one for the forward, starboard and port sides. These turrets are duplicated on the ventral side of the primary saucer, with the addition on the ventral side of one extra dual emplacement on the rear of the saucer. One ventral turret on the primary hull, dead aft, covers the aft firing arc.  The turret itself is located beneath the aft engineering hull Shuttlebay.

Phaser Arrays: 2 Mk X Phaser Array Strips

Phaser Array Locations: One dorsal array on the saucer section, for the forward, starboard and port sides. This arrays are duplicated on the ventral side of the primary saucer.

Torpedo Launchers: 4 - Two forward, Two aft

Torpedo Compliment: 170 (80 Photon Warheads, 80 Quantum Warheads, 10 Torpedoes without Warheads)

Tractor Beams: 2x Type X

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Computer Cores: Two Primary Computer Cores developed by Ceasar Networks, an independent contractor on Bynar.
Ship Networking: The ship runs an isolinear network, supported by bio-neural gelpacks to improve responsiveness.

LCARS: The designers of the Trailblazer class does not forget the origins of the design. As such, neither did the computer systems. As an homage to the roots of the ship design, the ship by default uses LCARS build 5.8 but has the potential to utilize the "Classical" version look of 2290's era LCARS build 4.8, with the same core functions, security, and improvements of 5.8. Both are fully-functional, tandem Operating Systems. In the event of Red Alert, only version 5.8 is available.

Holographic Support Systems: Every deck on the ship is equipped with holographic imaging arrays, to allow for holographic crew members such as EMH's to leave their defined areas of the ship in case of emergencies.

EMERGENCY SYSTEMS

Saucer Separation: Saucer Separation onboard a Trailblazer class starship is possible, and the ship can reintegrate the two parts without the assistance of a shipyard.
Nacelle Ejection: The Trailblazer Class has the ability to eject both the warp nacelles, in the event that one or both are critically damaged to a point that would create a clear and present danger to the ship. Once separated, a spacedock is required to reintegrate the nacelles and the main body.

Escape Pods: 120 lifeboats are available to supplement the shuttlecraft embarked. Each pod can support a maximum of 8 souls for 8 months. Lifepods can link up in "gaggle" mode and share resources to last longer. Each 8-soul pod is in the shape of a triangle, 5.6 meters high and 6.2 meters long. This design has been retained from the original Excelsior-class model with very little change.

Warp Core Ejection: The warp core ejection system is a system aboard warp-capable vessels designed to eject the warp core in the event of a warp core breach in order to prevent the destruction of the ship. Activation of the ejection system typically requires security clearance by the chief engineer or a senior officer (Commander or above). This tactic is generally considered to be a last ditch effort to save a ship during a crisis situation and is often unreliable at best. After ejection, it is possible to reintegrate the two parts, however this maneuver is also extremely difficult.

Emergency Egress: Many hull-level windows can be blown and double as egress routes. Combined with the main shuttlebay, every deck has multiple egress routes. The ejection systems are disabled until the independent sensors detect a significant atmosphere outside of the ship, in a breathable condition. Only then can the windows be blown via manual release hidden behind a removable bulkhead above the windows.