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Description

Class name:        Sheridan class

Basic Ship Specs;

Ship Type:           Deep space outpost

First Commission Date: 2262

Length: 1256m

Width: 1256m

Height: 457m

Decks:   155

Displacement:   109000000t

Compliment;

Officers:               190

Crew:    2100

Emergency Evac.:             6200

Armament:         32 – 110 MW phased energy rectified particle canons (AKA phasers); 16 – 90 MW, 200 MV phase modulated electron particle beam point defence particle canons; 4 photon torpedo launchers with various warheads.

Defence:             100 MW cast rodinium defence shields; SIF enhanced hull plating and defence fields.

“There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves.” – Captain James T. Kirk, 2260

Despite the growing tensions between the Federation and the Klingons in 2259, many in Starfleet were adamant in the Earth Space Probe program and that they wanted to start it as early as 2260 to begin a 5 year mission to explore uncharted space. Even after the bombing in London, the attack on Starfleet headquarters and the devastation in San Francisco, the program began with the rechristened USS Enterprise as the first ship to begin the program. And with other ships soon to venture into unexplored territory, a command base would be needed thus introducing the Sheridan class starbase.

Basing their design loosely off of the now abandoned Vulcan space station, Shr'Ki, the Sheridan class is recognized by the upper and lower saucer design with 16 conservatory structures and central park dome on the upper saucer and the 16 helium-3 and deuterium fuel bins on the lower saucer.

The station is equipped with 16 shuttle bays and can support and repair eight starships at once with the docking support facilities on the underside of the upper saucer. The lower saucer's docking ports are mostly dedicated for cargo and transport containers, fuel transports including antimatter and raw material transports.

The operations centre and executive docking ports are located in the central core above the engineering compartment.

Though its mission is peaceful, the Sheridan class is armed with 32 high yield phaser turrets, 16 point defense laser canons, and 4 photon torpedo launchers that can also fire various warheads including dicobalt warheads.

The station is defended by a high output cast rodinium shields.

It was considered giving the station plasma armour as a backup to the cast rodinium shields. Plasma armour is an obsolete defense barrier that was in common use by many non-terrestrial species first encountered by the NX-01 Enterprise in the mid 22nd century.

It involves bringing magnetic field sources from radiation shields and navigational deflectors to full power. A series of subspace amplifiers then consolidates the flux lines of the magnetic fields into a magnet barrier a few millimeters thick. Plasma that's phase synchronized with the consolidated magnetic field via subspace amplifiers is then injected into the field and conducts the flux lines forming a solid yet invisible barrier. The barrier would then break up particle weapons and prematurely detonate torpedoes so the station would withstand them better.

Several drawbacks to the plasma armour prohibited it as a secondary defense:

-The size of the station,
-Twice the power for half the protection,
-The shield needs to be open to fire phasers and torpedoes,
-Any significant hit would disperse the armour leaving that section of the station vulnerable,
-The shield is vulnerable to antiproton attacks, especially photon torpedoes.

This eventually lead to polarized hull plating being a more viable secondary defense with new developments in SIF generators and energy absorption matrices. The term “plasma armour” was derived from the 20th century space opera Galaxy Quest which historians believed inspired Captain WM Jefferies when constructing the NX-01 Enterprise.

The space station is powered by 12 helium-3 cold fusion reactors. A dilithium crystal at the centre of each reactor reduces the ignition temperature of helium-3 and deuterium from 400 million Kelvin to less than a quarter million Kelvin. Due to the low ignition temperature and the plasma focusing nature of dilithium, each reactor can process enough fuel to release the power equivalent of an antimatter reactor at great fuel costs. Specifically when compared to a 3 year antimatter fuel supply, an equal mass of helium-3 would be exhausted in approximately 12 hours at same power generation rates.

The station's 16 fuel bins on the lower saucer have 10 are filled with slush cryogenic deuterium and 6 are filled with slush cryogenic helium-3. Since the station only requires an average of 1kg of helium-3 fuel a day, the rest is dedicated to civilian and short range warp ships that also use helium-3 and dilithium for their warp drive.

Antimatter and neutronic fuel are stored in external transport containers docked with the station so they can undocked and blasted away from the station in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

The station's hydroponic gardens and parks uses porous bio-nutrient aerogel which us also used on starships. This forms a soil layer allowing roots to grow unimpeded while giving a solid surface to walk on. Holes in the aerogel allow nutrient enriched water recycled from the sanitary recovery systems to reach the plant's roots.

This also allows for the plants to remain in their position in the event of IDF failure, gravity orientation being knocked off axis (1), or total gravitational axis/orientation control loss (2).

Many of the gardens, orchards and tissue engineered meats are used as a base pattern for protein resequencers on starships, while also like on starships using chemosynthetic bioprocessors for the biomass material.

One of the more complicated and expensive part of the station are the station's 17 domes. Each transparent aluminum dome has a coating of neo-reflectors that passively angles sunlight down into the parks regardless of the angle the light is coming in barring obstacles such as station and planetary bodies.

The station carries transporter based industrial replicator units for starship repair and maintenance.

Starships larger than a scout class uses fabricators that are comparable to 3D printers of the 21st century. A series of phase ionization processors delivers the materials for both alloy generation and printing. These can range from steel and plastic pipes, tritanium hull plates, even duotronic circuit board plates.

Whereas starship fabricators can take as much as 20 minutes to print the carbon nanotubes and tri-silicate aerogel in a corrugated pattern for a single hull plate, the replicators on the station can make the same hull plating in a matter of seconds.

Though requiring 15% less energy, the power of the replicator units would overload many circuits on even Constitution class starships. As well the replicator pattern buffer is nearly 30 metres in diameter and very fragile making them currently unfeasible to install on starships at this time.

Neither fabricator nor replicator is capable of generating organic material outside of rubber and plastic material.

Despite the peaceful mission, there are still those in Starfleet who agree with the late Alexander Marcus with Starfleet needing to take a more military stance and wish the Sheridan class to reflect that. Despite the claims the space station's armament rating and defensive capabilities, as well as strategic locations were already set up in the event of hostile forces coming from the unknown like the Xindi incident over a century ago.

In 2262, the first Sheridan class was commissioned and designated Deep Space Four with 2 more under construction.

(1) - As seen from the first attack on the Enterprise on the Doomsday Machine, and the Reliant's first attack in the Enterprise in The Wrath Of Khan.

(2) - As seen on Star Trek Into Darkness.

Once again meant for JoAT, or Journal of Applied Treknology, but not waiting till hell freezes over.

Description

Class name:        Sheridan class

Basic Ship Specs;

Ship Type:           Deep space outpost

First Commission Date: 2262

Length: 1256m

Width: 1256m

Height: 457m

Decks:   155

Displacement:   109000000t

Compliment;

Officers:               190

Crew:    2100

Emergency Evac.:             6200

Armament:         32 – 110 MW phased energy rectified particle canons (AKA phasers); 16 – 90 MW, 200 MV phase modulated electron particle beam point defence particle canons; 4 photon torpedo launchers with various warheads.

Defence:             100 MW cast rodinium defence shields; SIF enhanced hull plating and defence fields.

“There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves.” – Captain James T. Kirk, 2260

Despite the growing tensions between the Federation and the Klingons in 2259, many in Starfleet were adamant in the Earth Space Probe program and that they wanted to start it as early as 2260 to begin a 5 year mission to explore uncharted space. Even after the bombing in London, the attack on Starfleet headquarters and the devastation in San Francisco, the program began with the rechristened USS Enterprise as the first ship to begin the program. And with other ships soon to venture into unexplored territory, a command base would be needed thus introducing the Sheridan class starbase.

Basing their design loosely off of the now abandoned Vulcan space station, Shr'Ki, the Sheridan class is recognized by the upper and lower saucer design with 16 conservatory structures and central park dome on the upper saucer and the 16 helium-3 and deuterium fuel bins on the lower saucer.

The station is equipped with 16 shuttle bays and can support and repair eight starships at once with the docking support facilities on the underside of the upper saucer. The lower saucer's docking ports are mostly dedicated for cargo and transport containers, fuel transports including antimatter and raw material transports.

The operations centre and executive docking ports are located in the central core above the engineering compartment.

Though its mission is peaceful, the Sheridan class is armed with 32 high yield phaser turrets, 16 point defense laser canons, and 4 photon torpedo launchers that can also fire various warheads including dicobalt warheads.

The station is defended by a high output cast rodinium shields.

It was considered giving the station plasma armour as a backup to the cast rodinium shields. Plasma armour is an obsolete defense barrier that was in common use by many non-terrestrial species first encountered by the NX-01 Enterprise in the mid 22nd century.

It involves bringing magnetic field sources from radiation shields and navigational deflectors to full power. A series of subspace amplifiers then consolidates the flux lines of the magnetic fields into a magnet barrier a few millimeters thick. Plasma that's phase synchronized with the consolidated magnetic field via subspace amplifiers is then injected into the field and conducts the flux lines forming a solid yet invisible barrier. The barrier would then break up particle weapons and prematurely detonate torpedoes so the station would withstand them better.

Several drawbacks to the plasma armour prohibited it as a secondary defense:

-The size of the station,
-Twice the power for half the protection,
-The shield needs to be open to fire phasers and torpedoes,
-Any significant hit would disperse the armour leaving that section of the station vulnerable,
-The shield is vulnerable to antiproton attacks, especially photon torpedoes.

This eventually lead to polarized hull plating being a more viable secondary defense with new developments in SIF generators and energy absorption matrices. The term “plasma armour” was derived from the 20th century space opera Galaxy Quest which historians believed inspired Captain WM Jefferies when constructing the NX-01 Enterprise.

The space station is powered by 12 helium-3 cold fusion reactors. A dilithium crystal at the centre of each reactor reduces the ignition temperature of helium-3 and deuterium from 400 million Kelvin to less than a quarter million Kelvin. Due to the low ignition temperature and the plasma focusing nature of dilithium, each reactor can process enough fuel to release the power equivalent of an antimatter reactor at great fuel costs. Specifically when compared to a 3 year antimatter fuel supply, an equal mass of helium-3 would be exhausted in approximately 12 hours at same power generation rates.

The station's 16 fuel bins on the lower saucer have 10 are filled with slush cryogenic deuterium and 6 are filled with slush cryogenic helium-3. Since the station only requires an average of 1kg of helium-3 fuel a day, the rest is dedicated to civilian and short range warp ships that also use helium-3 and dilithium for their warp drive.

Antimatter and neutronic fuel are stored in external transport containers docked with the station so they can undocked and blasted away from the station in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

The station's hydroponic gardens and parks uses porous bio-nutrient aerogel which us also used on starships. This forms a soil layer allowing roots to grow unimpeded while giving a solid surface to walk on. Holes in the aerogel allow nutrient enriched water recycled from the sanitary recovery systems to reach the plant's roots.

This also allows for the plants to remain in their position in the event of IDF failure, gravity orientation being knocked off axis (1), or total gravitational axis/orientation control loss (2).

Many of the gardens, orchards and tissue engineered meats are used as a base pattern for protein resequencers on starships, while also like on starships using chemosynthetic bioprocessors for the biomass material.

One of the more complicated and expensive part of the station are the station's 17 domes. Each transparent aluminum dome has a coating of neo-reflectors that passively angles sunlight down into the parks regardless of the angle the light is coming in barring obstacles such as station and planetary bodies.

The station carries transporter based industrial replicator units for starship repair and maintenance.

Starships larger than a scout class uses fabricators that are comparable to 3D printers of the 21st century. A series of phase ionization processors delivers the materials for both alloy generation and printing. These can range from steel and plastic pipes, tritanium hull plates, even duotronic circuit board plates.

Whereas starship fabricators can take as much as 20 minutes to print the carbon nanotubes and tri-silicate aerogel in a corrugated pattern for a single hull plate, the replicators on the station can make the same hull plating in a matter of seconds.

Though requiring 15% less energy, the power of the replicator units would overload many circuits on even Constitution class starships. As well the replicator pattern buffer is nearly 30 metres in diameter and very fragile making them currently unfeasible to install on starships at this time.

Neither fabricator nor replicator is capable of generating organic material outside of rubber and plastic material.

Despite the peaceful mission, there are still those in Starfleet who agree with the late Alexander Marcus with Starfleet needing to take a more military stance and wish the Sheridan class to reflect that. Despite the claims the space station's armament rating and defensive capabilities, as well as strategic locations were already set up in the event of hostile forces coming from the unknown like the Xindi incident over a century ago.

In 2262, the first Sheridan class was commissioned and designated Deep Space Four with 2 more under construction.

(1) - As seen from the first attack on the Enterprise on the Doomsday Machine, and the Reliant's first attack in the Enterprise in The Wrath Of Khan.

(2) - As seen on Star Trek Into Darkness.

Once again meant for JoAT, or Journal of Applied Treknology, but not waiting till hell freezes over.