| STARSHIP CLASS | |
|---|---|
| Gagarin-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Section 31 |
| Type: | Light cruiser |
| Service period: | 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | N/A |
| Width: | N/A |
| Height: | N/A |
| Mass: | N/A |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 5-6 (habitable) |
| Crew: | Unknown |
| Speed: | Warp Transwarp Impulse |
| Armaments: | Phasers Gravitic lance Quantum torpedoes |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Stealth technology |
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The Gagarin class is a technologically advanced type of starship utilised by Section 31 during the 32nd century.
History[]
After the Burn, Section 31 needed to replenish their losses in order to continue their duties and to fit the times of a harsher galaxy. As so they accomplished an old class of intel destroyers utilised in the 23rd century.
They retrofitted a fleet museum piece and recommished it as a Gagarin class.
Technical data[]
Auxiliary complement[]
- Unknown number of escape pods
- Two Worker bees
- Two Type 38 shuttlecraft
Crew support systems[]
Gagarin 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 vessels deflector shield.
To mitigate radiation damage to both the crew and ship systems, Gagarin 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, Gagarin 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 Gagarin 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.
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. Furthermore, it has one industrial replicator capable of fabricating new Shuttlecraft and et cetera. It was entirely self-recycling as any leftovers would be deconstructed back into bulk matter and all metabolic waste produced by the crew would be stored as well for future replication.
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.
Propulsion[]
Miscellaneous engineering data[]
The warp core of this class was constructed of over 200 elements, both synthetic and naturally occuring, and also 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[]
Starships of this configuration 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, 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 speed of Gagarin class starships was Warp Factor 9.9995 which is 53,254.35 times the speed of light or 1 light year/per 9.6 minutes or 10 light years/per 1.6 hours. Cruising speed is Warp 9.982 which is 5,940.67 times the speed of light or 1 light year per 1.48 hours and 10 light years every 14.76 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 Gagarin 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.
Sub-light[]
The Gagarin class possess 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 two assemblies of vectored thrust nozzles that 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.
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam: It features several fixed-mounted tractor beam emitters, described as multiphasic graviton transmitters, that project a beam of attenuated gravity toward a target thus allowing the manipulation of said object's trajectory in order to repel or attract it. The class could deploy drones to reinforce the tractor strength.
Weapon systems[]
Phasers[]
Gagarin class vessels are primarily armed with multiple phaser arrays consisting of strip-style emitter banks that fire pulsed beams of directed tetryon plasma particles at a target utilising an automatic frequency rotation program to continuously and periodically alter the vibrational component thereby combating enemy adaptation.
Torpedoes[]
Secondly, these ships are equipped with eight torpedo launch banks that shoot-out self-propelled and non tracking torpedoes each fitted with a zero point energy warhead. The complement of which is sixty Quantum torpedoes of the class 8 variety that has a explosive yield of 690 gigatons which is 1,391.129 times as powerful than a class 10 photon torpedo. Maximum effective tactical range was 4.5 million kilometers.
Gravitic lance[]
Interestingly, the Gagarin class navigational deflectors are modified to generate a massive inverse graviton burst at a moments notice that when directed toward a active warp field has the subsequent effect of disrupting it, forcing the target to drop to impulse speeds and wait for the gravitons to disperse.
Defensive systems[]
- Deflector shields: For protection, Gagarin class ships utilise a high-capacity armor-style deflector shield grid to protect itself from various threats, such as impacts from bolides and debris, various space-related and stellar phenomena as well as hostile weaponry. The deflectors are comprised out of multi-layered energetic EM distortion containing a high concentration of graviton particles and are equipped with multi-spectrum, metaphasic, metaphysic, and temporal shielding technology. Furthermore, they possessed regenerative sub-routines to rapidly restore points of compromised integrity and the resident magnetic resonance is self-modulating therefore making it harder to determine the static frequency.
Stealth systems[]
- Multi-spectral emitters: Independent from the standard cloak, Gagarin class starships also had the ability to alter their molecular appearance by disguising themselves as another object such as an asteroid. This was done via integrated Romulan technology that created holographic wave outputs.
- Cloaking 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 Gagarin class ship was near impossible to locate or track and was only possible through ranking clearance registered through Starfleet property.
- Refractive hull armor: In addition to its standard cloaking device and multispectral emitters, vessels of this class are finally built with black composite materials to absorb or reflect radar signals and to reduce its ambient temperatures to match that of an asteroid.
Energy generation[]
Ships of this class are powered by a antimatter x matter warp core which generated enormous quantities of electricity through controlled explosive collisions releasing pure light (energy) which is then harnessed directly into FTL as well as several other major systems. This is specifically accomplished via annihilation of equal parts matter and antimatter using a combination of deuterium (a hydrogen atom containing a proton and a neutron in its nucleus) and anti-deuterium (essentially a deuterium atom, whose atomic properties are exactly reversed from those of a normal deuterium atom). It is regulated through a matrix of magnets and Dilithium which employs recrystallization technology in the form of a theta-matrix compositor in order to extend the structural longevity of Dilithium by injecting high-energy photons and gamma radiation.
Furthermore, these vessels also utilise a series of impulse cores comprised out of a network of multiple spherical fusion reactors that are fueled by Deuterium and make use of a nuclear fusion process to generate energised plasma that is then distributed along a polaric conduit managed EPS grid. This grid was completely reinforced and required extensive means to cause an overload.
Design[]
Ships of this type were smaller than most contemporary Starfleet vessels and were constructed with a darker hull color than other Federation vessels. The primary hull was triangular, similar to the 22nd century Ganges-class design used by United Earth.
These vessels were able to retract their nacelle pylons when not at warp. The retracted nacelle mode is called "dark mode". The ships' nacelles appear to be configured in a manner that echoes the Intrepid-class' variable geometry pylons.
Trivia[]
- When necessary, these ships could mask their warp signatures to prevent detection.