USS Athena - A Ship Specifications

[Malcolm Adeyemi]

USS ATHENA-A
"This above all, to thine own self be true."

"Scientific though- our greatest challenge. These will be the voyages of the starship Athena. Its new mission: to employ fantastic new technologies, to test theories, and to transgress realms of thought where only the gods of old once dared- to boldly go where no man has gone before." -Captain Lafayette

CLASSIFICATION
Name: USS Athena-A
Registry: NCC-31415-A
Class: Intrepid (Refit)
Type: Light Explorer / Science Vessel

SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 342.5
Width: 144.84
Height: 55.42
Weight: 710,000 Metric Tonnes
Cargo Capacity: 35,750 Metric Tonnes
Number of Decks: 15

ARMOR/SHIELDS
Hull: Standard Duranium/Tritanium Hull
Ablative Armor: 8 and 10 cm Ablative Reinforcements
Standard Shield: Deflector shields (14 layer symmetrical oscillating subspace graviton field)
Experimental Shield: Borg Adaptive Shield Matrix (backward engineered- very dangerous)

ENGINES/PERFORMANCE
Maximum Cruising Speed: Warp 9.975 - For a maximum of 12 Hours.
Warp Core: APD-02
Crew Complement: 168 (42 officers, 126 enlisted)
Evacuation Limit: 500

ARMAMENTS
Phaser Arrays: 13 XII Phaser Arrays
Torpedo Launchers: 4 - Two forward, Two aft
Torpedo Compliment: 55
Tractor Beams: 2x Type XII

AUXILIARY CRAFT
4 Type-9 Medium Short-Range Shuttlecraft
2 Type-6 Medium Short-Range Shuttlecraft
1 Type-9A Cargo Shuttle
2 Type-18 Shuttlepod
2 Work Bee Maintenance Pods.

Saucer Section
Deck 1: Main Bridge, Captain's Ready Room, Officer's Briefing Room, Multi-use offices, Escape Pod Access, Aft Bridge Airlock, and Upper Sensor Platform

Deck 2: Officer's Mess, Senior Officers and VIP Quarters, Executive  Officer's Office Labs and Storage, Upper Sensor Platform Subsystems, Escape Pod Access

Deck 3: Captain's Quarters, Officers' Quarters, and VIP Quarters, Equipment Storage, Torpedo Loading Maintenance, Testing Isolation Chamber, and Turbolift Maintenance.

Deck 4: Main Security, Armory, Crew quarters, Transporters Rooms (2 Á¢â,¬"œ 1P/S), Aft Photon Torpedo Launchers, Phaser Maintenance, Forward Sensor Pallet Subsystems, and Escape Pod Access

Deck 5:  Sickbay, Primary Sickbay Support Systems (ICU, Biohazard Support, Radiation Treatment Wards, Surgical Ward, Critical Care, Null-Gravity Treatment, Isolation Suites, etc.), Chief Medical  Officer's Office, Counselor's Office, Crew Quarters, Library, Transporter Pattern Buffers (2 - 1 P/S), Holodecks (2 Á¢â,¬"œ 1P/S), Sensor Gear, Escape Pod Access, and  gym.

Deck 6: Crew Quarters, Non-Specific Science Laboratories (8 Á¢â,¬"œ 5P/3S) Aux Deflector Control, Aux Computer Core, Escape Pod Access,

Deck 7: Aux. Computer Core, Upper Cargo Bays 1 & 2, Labs, Escape Pod Access, RCS Thruster Access

Deck 8: Astrometrics, Chief Science  Officer's Office, Deuterium Processing, Port/Starboard/Forward Docking Ports, ODN/EPS Main Trunks, Lower Cargo Bays 1 & 2

Deck 9: Cargo Loading Doors, Aerowing Shuttle Dock, and Labs

Engineering Section

Deck 6: Deuterium (Matter) Processing, Consumables Resupply Connectors

Deck 7: Deuterium Tankage, Warp Engine Core Injector Access

Deck 8: Deuterium Tankage, Upper Premix Chamber, And Aft Work Pod Storage

Deck 9: Cargo Loading Doors, Upper Aerowing Shuttle Dock, and Labs

Deck 10: Main Shuttlebay, Shuttlebay Storage (SB2), Flight Control Center, Aft EV Access Airlock, Main Computer Core, Forward Photon Torpedo Launchers, Reserve Warp Engine Core, And Main Navigational Deflector

Deck 11: Main Engineering, Engineer's Office, Aft Lounge, Warp Core, Auxiliary Warp Engine, Main Computer Core, Main Navigational Deflector

Deck 12: Environmental Control, Antimatter Tankage, Main Deflector Control Systems

Deck 13: Warp Engine Core, Labs, Escape Pod Access, And Secondary ODN/EPS Trunks

Deck 14: Antimatter Processing, Aft Tractor Beam Emitter, Tractor Beam Subsystems, Escape Pod Access, and Ground Hover Footpad Systems

Deck 15: Antimatter Loading Port, Forward Tractor Beam Emitter, Tractor Beam Subsystems, Plasma Relay Control Rooms, and Ground Hover Footpads

[Constance Lafayette]

Refit Changes

The USS Athena-A is an Intrepid refit designed to be a testbed for new technologies. This means the ship has an abundance of "swappable" modular system blocks.

(Experimental) Borg Adaptive Shield Matrix: Backwards engineered from the Tactical Borg Cube the Athena encountered the adaptive shields of the Athena-A can approximate the adaptive defense shields of the borg for a short time. The energy and computing requirements of this shielding are so high that it consumes the majority of the Athena-A's effort while in use. In computer scenarios it has lasted for 1-3 minutes before catastrophic energy cascades blew out major power management systems.

Expanded Lab Space: The Athena-A boasts larger and better equipped module research space. These three environments can be precisely controlled to reflect the needs of the projects. Each of these lab spaces comes equipped with holographic support and doubles as advanced holodeck.

Next Gen. Organic Computing: The Athena-A uses advancements made in gel pack technologies to create a synaptic relay system distributed throughout the ship. This next generation computing system has two to three times the computing power of a standard Intrepid class. This, when combined with the advanced sensory equipment of a ship of this class, makes it a perfect choice for scientific missions as well as fulfilling its role as a research and development testbed.

(Experimental) Borg Transwarp Accessibility: Theoretically, the Athena-A has the ability to tap into Borg transwarp conduits and safely pilot thought but this has not yet been tested sufficiently.