USS Challenger"A profundis Historæ, inla volat iterum"CLASSIFICATIONName: USS Challenger
Registry: NCC-40117
Class: Excelsior (Refit)
Type: Explorer/Support Cruiser
SPECIFICATIONSLength: 511.25 meters
Width: 195.64 meters
Height: 86.76 meters
Weight: 2,350,000 metric tons
Cargo capacity: 35,200 metric tons
Number of Decks: 21
Hull Identification Device: HID-00478-218-ER-Blue
ARMOR/SHIELDSHull: Duranium hull plating over duranium-tritanium structural members
Ablative Armor: No Ablative Reinforcements
Standard Shield: Deflector shields (7 layer symmetrical close-field subspace graviton layers)
ENGINES/PERFORMANCENormal Cruising Speed: Warp 7
Maximum Cruising Speed: Warp 9.4 - For a maximum of 12 Hours.
Warp Core: NNEC Mark 8 Standard Matter/Antimatter Reaction Drive, originally developed by Newport News Engineering Consortium. Upgrade to Mark 8 designed and implemented by General Electric Space Drives.
Impulse Drives: 4 Scarbak VI Excelsior Class Mass Drivers, developed specifically for the Excelsior class design project.
Normal Impulse Speed: .25 c
Maximum Impulse Speed: 0.994 c
Reaction Control Systems: Several RCS thrusters, each capable of generating 3.1 million Newtons of exhaust in any direction.
Crew Complement: 550 (200 officers, 350 enlisted)
Evacuation Limit: 9800 Souls
TRANSPORTERSNumber 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 SYSTEMSStandard Data Transmission Speed: 18.5 kiloquads per second
Subspace Communications Speed: Warp 9.9997
ARMAMENTSPhaser Arrays: 9 Mk VIII Phaser Turrets
Phaser Array 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.
Torpedo Launchers: 4 - Two forward, Two aft
Torpedo Compliment: 120 (80 Photon Warheads, 30 Quantum Warheads, 10 Torpedoes without Warheads)
Tractor Beams: 2x Type X
AUXILIARY CRAFT4 Type-18 Medium Short-Range Sublight Shuttlepod
3 Type-8 Light Long-Range Warp Shuttlecraft
1 Type-9A Cargo Shuttle
3 Type-9 Medium Long-Range Warp Shuttlecraft
2 Work Bee Maintenance Pods.
COMPUTER SYSTEMSEMERGENCY SYSTEMS