| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Courage-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Federation, Starfleet |
| Type: | Command level science ship |
| Service period: | 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 1,141.92 meters |
| Width: | N/A |
| Height: | N/A |
| Mass: | N/A |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | N/A |
| Crew: | 2,500-5,000 (standard crew capacity allowing for usual visitors) 40-80,000 (emergency evacuation limits) |
| Speed: | Warp speed Transwarp Quantum slipstream |
| Armaments: | Phasers Quantum torpedoes Photon torpedoes Transphasic torpedoes |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Cloaking device |
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The Courage class is a technologically advanced type of starship in service in the 31st and 32nd centuries by Starfleet.
History[]
Sometime prior to 3069, Starfleet issued a general order to the engineering corps to design a high level scientific heavy cruiser for deep space, combat, and diplomatic missions while employing centuries of starship design culture from races all across the Milky Way galaxy rather than basing the design solely of Earth history as Starfleet had done for many centuries. The Courage-class was approved as the culmination of similar exploration, as a starship designed to treat directional bias as a matter of purpose and forethought, rather than an afterthought.
Briefs for the propulsion, computer, defensive, weapons, science facilities and space-frame parameters are sent out to Starfleet Design agencies for consultation. Initial designs are approved and full specifications are forwarded to Starfleet Fleet Yards for construction. Early in the construction, the main computer core arrived to the station yard and is fitted to the Courage class prototype's space-frame. Soon after, Starfleet propulsion dynamics delivers a fully functional warp-core, Quantum slipstream core, and Transwarp components for testing. Not long after, reactors are on line and supplying primary power before phasers and tractor beam emitters are installed. Primary modules are attached and outer hull nears completion.
Later, Habitat modules are attached and bridge unit is brought to functional status. Minor redesign begins on shuttle bay. Torpedo systems are later installed - Photon, Quantum, and Transphasic capable. Eventually, the Courage class is complete and the first prototypes leave fleet yards.
In 3069, this class saw the loss of an untold number of ships to The Burn. At least four vessels. However, USS Song survived the Burn thanks to being in drydock at the time with its FTL functions being taken offline. The vessel eventually joins the Federation fleet around Starfleet HQ once they depart the Sol system, along with two other Courage class ships from unknown regions.
In 3189, when Osyraa managed to infiltrate Federation Headquarters aboard the USS Discovery, Admiral Charles Vance ordered ships within Headquarters' perimeter to prepare to open fire, causing the Song to move to an offensive position. Once Osyraa opened fire on the fleet inside from Discovery inside the shield, the Song was among the ships that fired back.
In 3190, J'Vini stole a shipment of dilithium from the USS Song, the first of four identical thefts she would commit.
Technical data[]
Propulsion[]
Miscellaneous engine systems[]
The engine core of this class was constructed of over 200 elements, and had no need for magnetic confinement due to special fuel injection processes. It also emitted omicron radiation during its operation, which is extremely rare and can only be created by certain forms of matter-antimatter reactions.
FTL[]
Warp[]
Courage class starships possess a Federation standard warp drive that functions through running highly energised plasma through the unique composition of the warp coils thereby creating a subspace field ie; a discrete bubble of subspace is temporarily merged into normal space around the exterior of the craft. To explain the phenomena, under normal circumstances subspace and normal space do not interact, but the high amount of energy and the unique properties of the warp coils contained in the concealed nacelles allows a "blending" of the dimensions, surrounding the ship in the aforementioned subspace field. By manipulating the way plasma is moved through the warp coils, they alter the nature of the subspace field, such as causing it to move in a specific direction therefore actually accelerating the subspace "bubble" to faster-than-light velocities without violating laws of relativity as the ship contained within the field is technically stationary.
The maximum velocity is Warp Factor 9.99975 which is 91,768.69 times the speed of light or 10 light years/per 57.6 minutes which is 1.04687075063 times the maximum speed of most Starfleet vessels including (at least) the Crossfield class, Worf class, Janeway class, California class, and Cuyahoga class. The cruising speed for Courage class vessels was Warp Factor 8 which is 1,024 times the speed of light and is 89 times slower than its maximum speed at around 1 light year/per 8.56 hours.
Transwarp[]
Vessels of this class are fitted with a Transwarp coil allowing the formation of a Tri-quantum conduit rift. It utilized a combination of the traditional warp drive, navigational deflector and deflector shields as its components with the ship having to be taken to warp factor 2.3 to generate the initial required subspace field before the navigational deflector used a tachyon matrix to emit tachyonic bursts on a high-energy band. The deflector shield of the ship was used to emit the tachyon bursts into space at the resonant transwarp frequency level. The subspace field of the conduit then formed in front of the ship.
The Transwarp coil design utilized solid trilithium that retains integrity for workable periods of time and a process of extreme refinement of standard dilithium allowed the use of the advanced compacted flow of energy required by the transwarp drive. Generated transwarp conduits radiate high neutrino emissions accompanied by an intermittent graviton flux and a chroniton field is projected throughout a Crossfield class ship interior in order to compensate for temporal stress.
The maximum speed is known to be 1,000,000 – 10,000,000 times the speed of light allowing for extremely rapid travel to any of the four quadrants of the Milky Way galaxy.
Quantum slipstream[]
Similar to Transwarp conduits, the Federation Quantum slipstream drive is a narrowly focused, directed quantum field that is initiated by manipulating the fabric of the space-time continuum through routing energy into the Courage class starship's navigational deflector array. This creates a subspace tunnel, which is projected ahead of the vessel, allowing said vessel to penetrate the quantum barrier. Once a ship has entered this tunnel, the forces inside propel it at incredible speed. To maintain the slipstream, a ship has to constantly modify the quantum field with valid phase variance codes or the slipstream would collapse, violently throwing the ship back into normal space.
The official process when the QSD is initiated is; energy is routed from the starship’s main power source into the QSD core’s quantum matrix initiator where a quantum field forms around the Benamite crystals that are the source of the gravitons required for slipstream. The graviton particle actuators begin stripping gravitons from the crystals and then through exposure to the quantum field the gravitons become charged with quantum energy into a uniform flux state. Once enough particles are charged, they are fed through graviton transfer conduits to the modified components in the navigational deflector dish. Then, it projects the charged gravitons out in front of the ship creating a very narrow subspace field that splits the subspace domain open just long enough for the ship to enter.
Once the drive is deactivated, it cannot be reactivated until at least 36 hours has passed (longer or shorter depending on the state of the drive). The benamite crystals require a cool-down cycle due to exposure to the quantum field. Any attempt to warm-up the drive before the cool-down cycle has completed could result in an unstable slipstream or severe damage to the drive itself.
The speed of the drive is inversely proportional to the time and distance as long term slipstream is slower than a short jump as discovered by the USS Voyager crew during the 24th century. This problem has remained to the 32nd century. Based on the three hundred light year trip, the average speed of a quantum slipstream drive calculates out to 2.63×106 times the speed of light meaning 75,000 light years/per 10.4 days, assuming it didn't require significant shutdown time for maintenance or refueling. Additionally, a Courage class starship in slipstream velocity could cover fifteen light years in just three minutes, or 300 light years in one hour (~300 times faster than warp 9.99, and ~900 times faster than warp 9.975). This calculates out to 9,467,280,000 x the speed of light.
Among the known components of the quantum slipstream drive are; the quantum matrix initiator which is tied in to the starship’s main power, Benamite crystals, core control sensors, graviton particle actuators (6 columns surrounding core perimeter), graviton transfer conduits, modified navigational deflector, slipstream initiator, slipstream control sensors, and QSD central control matrix which is a dedicated computer core for attuning and modulating graviton stream.
Sub-light[]
Courage class vessels can travel through space at sub-light speeds via nuclear fusion engines in which the plasma from the fusion reactor powers a massive magnetic coil to propel the ship. It is a form of a magnetohydrodynamic drive called the Hyper-Impulse engine that is capable of propelling the ship at speeds just under .75 percent/the speed of light. This magnetic system also utilizes the Space-Time Driver Coil to operate effectively at sub-light speeds which produce a non-propulsive symmetrical subspace field that helps the ship to accelerate, decelerate, and maneuver by effectively lowering it's apparent mass.
Furthermore, ships of this type are equipped with a Newtonian-thrust-based reaction system in the form of several assemblies of vectored thrust nozzles. They are powered by fusion reactors using deuterium fuel to create helium plasma. These rocket-like engines are typically employed for a boost of velocity, specialised maneuvering, et cetera. A known speed of the Impulse thrusters is 0.17 percent of the speed of light and are generally used to bolster the magnetic drive bringing the total sub-light speed up to 0.92 c which is 0.8 percent less than that of Warp 1 AKA the speed of light.
Life support[]
- Replicators
- Inertial dampeners
- Structural integrity field system
- Oxygen generators
- Gravity plating
- Heat shield
- Radiation shield
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam generators: The class also features a tractor beam, described as a multiphasic graviton transmitter, which is an attenuated beam of gravity that projects from numerous angles and can attract objects to the ship or can be reversed to repel objects away as seen multiple times.
Stealth systems[]
- Cloak screen: The ship is equipped with a highly advanced cloaking device that was proclaimed "perfect." It emitted no tachyons and left no residual anti-protons, the two ways that a cloaked ship could be tracked and located. Thus, when cloaked, a Courage clas vessel could not be located or tracked unless by verified Starfleet command codes.
Weapon systems[]
Vessels of this type are one of the most heavily armed ships within Starfleet and the Federation as well as the Alpha Quadrant as a whole boasting impressive weaponry as befitting a class built so large.
Torpedoes[]
Courage class vessels are fitted with seven arrays of newly developed (at the time of the burn) torpedo launchers which are bunched up banks that shoot out self-propelled torpedoes equipped with variable warheads. Considering they are "bunched up", the Courage class technically has twenty four tubes. Each one is suited for rapid fire, up to twenty torpedoes in a single salvo meaning the complement can be depleted exceedingly quick.
The complement of which is 250 photon torpedoes, 125 type 7 and 125 class 10. The type 7 have an explosive yield of 25 isotons or 62 megatons while the class 10 have a yield of 200 isotons roughly equalling 496 megatons, about 8 times more powerful than the former. Additional armaments include 200 class 8 quantum torpedoes and 50 Transphasic torpedoes. For a total of 500 torpedoes.
Phasers[]
The class featured sixteen phaser strip arrays consisting of two hundred mini-emitter segments designed to fire pulsed beams of directed tetryon plasma particles at a target utilising automatic frequency rotation to combat enemy adaption. They are rated for a standard energy output of 5.1 Megawatts per second/per emitter.
Defensive systems[]
- Deflector shields: It boasted a high-capacity shield grid using a synthetic Mercassium compound to protect itself from various threats, such as impacts from objects and debris, various space-related and energetic phenomena as well as hostile weaponry. Deflectors could be optimized to deal with specific threats such as plasma, tachyon and/or ion storms.
Design[]
The Courage-class was essentially T-shaped, with a horizontal platform forming the central layer between two conical sections pointing away from the center of mass. The primary hull was vertically-oriented and diamond-shaped with the engineering hull protruding aft from the middle. Overall, the vessel appeared large and bulbous.
Deck layout[]
TBA
Materials[]
- Hull
- The exterior frame is made out of Trinesium that can withstand temperatures of 18,000 °C and was further reinforced by Neutronium alloy fibres chemically bonded onto the Trinesium.
Computer systems[]
Ships of this class boast bio-neural gel hardware with multi-phasic processing units and polyhedronic-quantum-data memory storage in a shape similar to that of annular isolinear chips, described as a new technology with the USS Voyager-J and all Courage class ships serving as the test bed facilities. The Bio-neural gel packs consist of an artificial bio-fluid ecosystem that allows transmission of neural signals with the heart of the packet being neural clusters, grown copies of strands similar to those found in the brains of sentient beings. These clusters give the ship’s computer ‘instinctive’ data processing and routing ability as well as allowing the ship’s computer to utilize ‘fuzzy logic’ to speed up probability calculations much as a living, breathing entity would.
Energy generation[]
Courage class ships utilise an antimatter x matter reactor core which generated enormous amounts of power through explosive collisions releasing pure light (energy) which is then harnessed directly into FTL as well as several other major systems. It is regulated through a matrix of magnets and Dilithium.
Secondly, ships of this type have several spherical fusion reactors that are fueled by Deuterium that make use of a nuclear fusion process to generate energised plasma that is then distributed throughout the ship via a polaric conduit managed EPS grid.
Support vessels[]
- Unknown number of escape pods
- Unknown number of Worker bees
- Five Type 6A shuttlecraft
- Two Delta Flyer class
- Ten+ Type 38 shuttlecraft
Known vessels of this class[]
- USS Song (NCC-325084)
- At least 4 vessels during the Burn destroyed
- Unnamed vessel
- USS Ducane
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