| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Dauntless-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Section 31 |
| Type: | General military starship |
| Service period: | 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 225 meters (738 feet) |
| Width: | 40 meters |
| Height: | 22.85 meters |
| Mass: | N/A |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 7 |
| Crew: | 83 (standard crew complement) 250-300 (evacuation capacity) |
| Speed: | Quantum slipstream Warp (cruising FTL speed) Impulse |
| Armaments: | Quantum torpedoes Phasers Gravimetric torpedoes |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Cloaking device |
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The Dauntless class is a technologically advanced type of starship utilised by Section 31 in the 32nd century.
History[]
While attempting to reinforce Starfleet backed evacuation of effected star systems from a gravitational anomaly, all known Dauntless class vessels were destroyed.
Technical data[]
Design[]
Externally, the Dauntless class retained several design cues from the original ship it is based on, including a streamlined, arrowhead shaped primary hull, a near organic transition into the secondary hull and underslung warp nacelles not using magnetic detachment. The secondary hull and warp nacelles were elongated outward and the secondary hull housed auxiliary impulse engines. It also lacked the "hump" the original had in its transition from the nape of the ship's dorsal section.
Starship section design[]
By Starfleet standards, the Dauntless class was considered to be relatively minimalist and spartan, possessing no holodecks, no recreation centers, no arboretums, and no accommodations for family members.
Deck layout[]
- Deck one - Bride, captain's ready room
- Deck two - Mess hall, transporter room, crew quarters, conference room
- Deck three - Sickbay, armory, brig, airlocks 1 & 2
- Deck four - Cargo bay 1 & 2, astrometrics, science laboratory
- Deck five - Shuttlebay
- Deck six - Main engineering, antimatter generator, computer core
- Deck seven - Deuterium storage tanks, dilithium vault
Life support/crew support systems[]
Dauntless class vessels utilise an artificial gravitational field generator facilitated through Duranium sheets lined in the interior deck plates. The levels of gravity produced were modulated by a graviton stabilizer and typically produced Earth standard gravimetric forces: 0.99 g.
To protect from damage caused by approaching a star or entering the atmosphere of a planet, this type utilised a standard Federation heat shield consisting of a thermal deflector unit. This is seperate from the vessel's deflector shield.
To mitigate radiation damage to both the crew and ship systems, Dauntless class ships have a seperate protective system independent from the main deflector shields which use a double lattice layer consisting of semi-fluidic material designed to safely absorb the energy of the radiation.
Like all FTL capable vessels, Dauntless class ships require the use of an advanced inertia dampening system to counter the effects of rapid acceleration and deceleration by sustaining and absorbing the natural inertia of such a vessel as it moved through space in sub-light or warp velocities.
The structural integrity system is an application of EM field technology allowing the mechanical integrity of the physical space-frame of a Dauntless class starship to be augmented. This system provides a network of polarised forcefield segments that compensate for propulsive and other structural stress factors that otherwise exceed the design limits of the space-frame or to assist in the compensation of weapon fire. EM field generation for the SIF is provided by a number of field generators with the Dauntless class having four generators: two on the primary hull, and two in the secondary hull.
The ship has a recycling oxygenation system that used a synthetic fiber-based technology creating an artificial ecosystem of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and other gases, while taking in carbon dioxide exhaled by the crew and purifying it.
All vessels of this class are provided with current Federation standard replicator systems/hubs as a means of producing necessary items such as food, clothing, medication and virtually anything else required. The menu is only limited by the programming but cannot replicate certain material such as Latinum, programmable matter, antimatter or Dilithium. Additionally, biofilters automatically screen out all contaminants before alerting the ship's computer and then use programmable matter to break down the harmful element unless otherwise ordered. Replicators are fueled by the vessel's bulk matter supply described as the base material which is then deconstructed on the atomic level and then reformed using magnets and matter-energy-matter conversion technology. It used Nitrium in the construction of components for the replicator hubs.
Ship transporter systems functioned via matter-energy-matter conversion meaning a person or object is reduced into an energy pattern, then sending ("beaming" - possibly through quantum entanglement) it to a target location or else returning it to the transporter, where it is re-converted into matter. In doing so, the target matter is discorporated into a vibrant blue particle facsimile and the entire process takes less than a second. When used, a transporter left residual ionization in the air that can be isolated and traced. Additionally, transporters have bio-filters to remove contagious microbes or viruses from an organic subject mid-transport. The maximum range was 70,000 kilometers which was a 75 percent increase from the 24th century limit and was 172 percent greater than the range of 25,749.504 kilometers during the 23rd century. It was not fitted for transwarp beaming or subspace transporting but could be modified to do so.
Propulsion[]
Miscellaneous engineering data[]
The warp 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[]
Dauntless class vessels 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 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, Dauntless class vessels 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 speed of a vessel of this class was 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 Dauntless class vessels was Warp Factor 8.5 which is 1,253.32 times the speed of light and is 73.22 times slower than its maximum speed at around 1 light year/per 6.99 hours.
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 Dauntless 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 Dauntless 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[]
The Dauntless class possessed two methods of transport within normal space at sub-light speeds.
The first is a magnetohydrodynamic drive called the Hyper-Impulse engine that is essentially a massive magnetic coil to propel the ship at speeds just under 0.75 percent of 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.
The second is a Newtonian-thrust-based reaction system in the form of a series of vectored thrust nozzle assemblies aligned on the end of the primary hull with another two sets of smaller and thinner assemblies on the secondary section - one on port and another on the starboard side. 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 .8 percent less than that of Warp 1 AKA the speed of light.
Energy generation[]
Ships of this class are powered via multiple sources including; an antimatter x matter drive 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.
Furthermore, Dauntless class vessels also utilise a two impulse systems comprised out of a network of twenty four spherical fusion reactors that are fueled by Deuterium which make use of a nuclear fusion process to generate energised plasma that is then distributed throughout the ship via a reinforced polaric conduit managed EPS grid.
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam generators: The ship also features multiple tractor beam emitters that projects an attenuated beam of gravity outward from multiple potential angles in order to manipulate the trajectory of a target, either to repel or attract. Each emitter is described as a multiphasic graviton transmitter and the Dauntless class specifically possess four generators.
Weapon systems[]
Torpedoes[]
Each Dauntless class ship is armed with four torpedo launch banks, two forward and two aft. They shoot out self-propelled torpedoes all of which are armed with a variable warhead and can fire ten torpedoes in a single salvo.
The complement of which is ninety six class 8 quantum torpedoes using zero point energy detonation technology. They have an effective tactical range of 4.5 million kilometers. Class 8 quantum torpedoes have a explosive yield of 690 gigatons which is 1,391.129 times as powerful than a class 10 photon torpedo.
Further armaments included gravimetric torpedoes which emit a complex phase variance consisting of graviton particles to create a gravimetric distortion capable of causing severe structural damage to a starship.
Phasers[]
It was equipped with seven strategically positioned phaser arrays: four on the secondary sections and three on the primary hull, which consist of strip emitter banks and fire pulsed beams of tetryon plasma particle discharge at a target with a routine frequency rotation program to prevent the enemy from adapting easily.
Defensive systems[]
- Deflector shields: It boasted a high-capacity deflector shield grid to protect itself from various threats, such as impacts from bolides and debris, various space-related and stellar phenomena and hostile weapon fire. The grid is composed out of multi-layered energetic distortion infused with graviton particles. In combat situations, the field is typically within several meters of the hull, creating an oval bubble shape.
Stealth systems[]
The class 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 Dauntless class vessel was near impossible to locate or track and was only possible through ranking clearance registered through Starfleet property.
Particle synthesis[]
The Dauntless class is capable of performing a modified version of the Picard Maneuver first developed in the mid 24th century. It uses a matrix of external holo-emitters equipped with particle synthesis technology in order to duplicate the sensor image of a ship of this type and then scatter it creating the illusion of multiple vessels each having their own warp signatures.
Support complement[]
- Two Type 38 shuttlecraft
- Unknown number of escape pods
- Seven Worker bees