| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Janeway-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Federation, Starfleet |
| Type: | Heavy cruiser Long-range explorer |
| Service period: | 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 452.95 meters |
| Width: | 144.84 meters |
| Height: | 67.5 meters |
| Mass: | 700,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 15 (habital) |
| Crew: | 141 (standard crew complement, however, 173-200 depending on specialised missions) 1 (minimum operating capacity combined with Emergency Holographic Programs) 660-900 (standard emergency evacuation) 1,500 (peak life support capacity) |
| Speed: | Warp speed Transwarp Quantum slipstream |
| Armaments: | Photonic cannon Torpedo launchers Phasers |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Cloaking device |
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The Janeway class is a technologically advanced type of starship under the operation of Starfleet in the 32nd century.
History[]
During the Burn, Starfleet saw a high loss rate of these vessels as their warp drives went critical and exploded. A small number managed to survive either by having their warp drive offline at the time due to being in dry dock, conducting repairs/maintenance, or by experiencing a malfunction.
The fleet at the Federation HQ included the USS Voyager-J, the eleventh generation of the original. It fired on the Emerald Chain controlled USS Discovery-A and led the attack on the Emerald Chain flagship.
As of 3190, Voyager-J was reassigned to the active field fleet as part of the home fleet reduction effort.
One of these vessels underwent system update and hardware upgrades in 3190 courtesy of the new Archer spacedock. The crew of the USS Discovery-A watched as it was unveiled to the Federation public.
Technical data[]
Computer systems[]
It features an emergency hologram support staff consisting of an EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram), an ECH (Emergency Command Hologram), an ETH (Emergency Tactical Hologram), an EEH (Emergency Engineering Hologram), and possibly others.
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 serving as the test bed. The Bioneural 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.
The computer contains an open-access library containing information of the cultures of various species as well as a direct uplink to Federation archives both classified and open-access.
During combat, the tactical sensors relays data on what type of weapon is being used against the ship, and what frequency and phase the weapon uses if identifiable. Once the computer analyzes this, given enough time, the shield can be configured to have the same frequency as the incoming weapon - but different nutation. This tactic dramatically increases shield efficiency.
As of 3190, the navigational subsystems and sensor suite underwent an overhaul as well as several other systems. The astrometric room onboard Janeway class ships are highly advanced and could measure the radiation flux of up to three billion stars simultaneously, resulting in readings ten times more accurate than 24th century technology. It is used for charting stars, planets, nebulae, and other stellar bodies and determine the ship's position relative to the galactic core.
Modes/Alert systems[]
- Red Alert: This is the highest alert system, beside Omega Directive, that signalled the crew to immediately prepare for battle and automatically brings shields and weapon systems to full power while securing vital systems such as the Warp Core.
- Security Alert: There are 10 security alert levels with the highest confining non-essential personnel to quarters, shields activated and the posting of security teams on all decks.
- Proximity Alarm: This was an alert signal aboard Janeway class starships that indicated when another vessel or object was approaching, most often at dangerous speeds that would bode for a collison.
- Intruder Alert: This could be declared at any time, by computer or any crewmember upon detecting an intruder on board. It could also be activated automatically based on predefined criteria, such as entering a restricted area. The alert was announced by audio and crewmembers were expected to take appropriate action while armed by phasers.
- Yellow Alert: Yellow alert was the second highest alert signal status on board such a vessel, one stage below red alert. It designated a ship-wide state of increased preparedness for possible crisis situations with the defense fields being brought to full power and put weapons on standby.
- Omega Alert: Named after the last letter in the Greek alphabet, this directive signifies the molecules detection within a few light years position of a Janeway class vessel. The ship's computer would disengage the engines immediately and lock out all computer access, displaying the Greek letter "Omega" on every bridge console. Only the captain would be able to disable the lockout. In the privacy of their ready room or other secured area, with the doors locked, the captain would give the computer the proper high-level security authorization code to access the sensor data. The computer would then brief the captain regarding the detection of Omega molecules, followed by instructions to implement the Omega Directive at once – disregarding all other priorities, including the Prime Directive.
- Green Alert: This alert mode was used to activate the vessels cloaking device.
- Blue Alert: Blue alert is a multi-purpose alarm used to signify environmental hazards to the crew, main power failure, docking maneuvers, and landing protocols. Given the various uses, Blue alert can be confused for any one of its intended purposes indicating their may be a audio component.
- Gray Mode: Gray mode denoted that the ship was running on reserve/emergency power allowed for maximum energy conservation and shut down the warp core, put life support systems at minimum operating status, sensor systems were reduced as well as accuracy, transporter usage was terminated, and holodeck usage was terminated.
Life support[]
- Gravity plating
- Inertia dampeners
- Structural integrity field system
- Heat shield
- Radiation shield
- Oxygen generators
- Replicators
Auxiliary complement[]
- Four Landing pods
- Two Delta Flyer class
- Unknown number of Worker bees
- Unknown number of escape pods
- Four Type 6A shuttlecraft
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. The core is isolated from the rest of the ship contained behind a retractable neutronium casing, protected by forcefields and can be ejected out into space.
Furthermore, Janeway class vessels also utilise a series of impulse systems comprised out of a network of eighteen 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 polaric conduit managed EPS grid.
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam generators: It is equipped with multiple tractor beam emitters that can project a beam of gravity outward at a target thus allowing the manipulation of its trajectory.
Weapon systems[]
Photonic cannon[]
Janeway class vessels are also armed with a photonic cannon developed through a collective venture of programmable matter and advanced holography. It utilizes a stream of heavy resonance photonic particles that become super-energized through a solidified electron crystal sphere encased in a heavy Electromagnetic confinement beam jacket attached to the center of the beams emitter. Twin beams fire from the array in a lightning like fashion due to the super electromagnetics. It is the most power-draining weapon with the most potential for destruction Janeway class vessels have.
Torpedoes[]
It is armed with numerous torpedo launchers; two forward fixes, and two aft fixed. The only blind spots in the torpedo launching system is the port and starboard sides. Torpedo tubes one and two (fore), are located over the main deflector dish in the Stardrive section. Aft coverage is handled by a third and fourth torpedo launcher facing the rear of the ship in the upper engineering hull near where it meets the saucer. They all shoot out self-propelled torpedoes each equipped with a variable payload and can fire around 4 torpedoes consecutively in a single salvo.
The class typically carries a complement of 55 Mark-XXV quantum torpedoes in addition to 15 Transphasic torpedoes designed for fighting opponents of exceptional strength like the Borg. Making for a total of 70 torpedoes. However, depending on mission quota a ship of this class may carry further armaments. Janeway class vessels assigned to tactical missions are usually outfitted with Tricobalt devices that are capable of producing disruptions or even ruptures in subspace and are additionally provided with extra quantum torpedoes.
Phasers[]
The class feature thirteen arrays consisting of strip emitters using standard directed energy phaser technology that fire pulsed beams of tetryon plasma particle discharge at a target with continuously rotating frequencies to combat enemy adaption.
Specifically, the dorsal saucer section is covered by four phaser strips; two of which extend from the aft curvature, along the length of the saucer and stop short of the auxiliary deflector incision. The aft firing arc is covered by two smaller arrays angled on the rear of the saucer section. The relative bottom of the ship is protected by two similar arrays as on the dorsal saucer section, extending to the rear of the saucer and following the curve to the aux deflector incision. Along with those arrays, are two small aft-angled phaser strips similar to the dorsal aft-fire strips. Additional protection is provided by a single array that extends laterally across the ventral engineering hull just fore of the warp-core ejection port. Far-aft strips are provided on the underside of the detached nacelles and under the shuttlebay landing deck on the underside of the ship.
Defensive systems[]
- Deflector shields: It is protected by multi-layered deflector shields composed out of electromagnetic energy infused with gravitational waves. They absorb kinetic impacts and energy discharge for a limited time. They utilise adaptive and auto-regenerative subroutines managed by bio-neural cores.
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 there is no known way to locate a Janeway class vessel though they generally have beacons marking their location for high enough Starfleet clearance.
Materials[]
- Hull
- The exterior frame of the ship is comprised almost entirely out of neutronium alloy panels making it highly durable even without active shields.
Propulsion[]
Sub-light[]
The Janeway 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 aligned on the far rear of the secondary hull opposite the shuttle bay with two smaller and thinner assemblies on the back of the saucer dish. 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.
FTL[]
Warp[]
Janeway 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 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 the warp drive installed on typical vessels of this type is Warp Factor 9.99973523269 which is 87,617.67 times the speed of light or roughly 13.835 light years/per hour. Average cruising velocity is Warp Factor 9.5 which is 1,894.85 times speed of light and equates to 1 light year/per every 4.63 hours. Overall, the Janeway class is one of the fastest in the fleet being 1.9 × 10-7 percent faster than a Worf class vessel.
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 Janeway 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 Janeway 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.
Transwarp[]
Vessels of this class are fitted with a Transwarp coil allowing the formation of a Triquantum 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 Janeway 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.
Mission specialties[]
The Janeway class is widely capable of long-term exploration missions without copious amounts of support; ranging from logging gaseous anomalies to planetary analysis to scanning sub-quantum mass particulates and even exploring other dimensions.
The USS Voyager-J is known as a "test bed" trialing out possible methods to reduce Federation dependency on large scale Dilithium deposits by researching ways to increase warp drive efficiency and et cetera.
Design[]
Janeway class vessels feature a hull configuration adopting the standard 61º elliptical saucer-type shape of previous starship classes, which of primary hull, secondary hull, and variable geometry nacelles as the the tilting, wing-like nacelles could shift microns in their positions, emitting minutely adjustable warp fields that were more efficient and safer when traveling in subspace. It is meters in 452.95 meters length, 144.84 meters in width, and 55.42 meters in height boasting 257 rooms spread over 15 decks and 700,000 metric tonnes.
Further aft, the main navigational deflector dish was found at the fore-side of the Janeway class secondary hull. Detachment was used as a construction method when building ships of this type where components lacked a physical connection with one another but remained a unit through cohesive magnetic seals using some kind of super conductor.
Deck Layout[]
- Deck One - Bridge, briefing room, captain's ready room, airlocks
- Deck Two - Mess hall, senior crew quarters, captain's personal quarters, VIP quarters, private mess hall/cabin 125 Alpha
- Deck Three - COO's office, utility closets, conference room 1
- Deck Four - Transporter rooms 1-2, cargo bays 1-2
- Deck Five - Sickbay, CMO's office, counselor's office, holodeck 1, science laboratories, medical laboratories, public crew locker room, crew quarters, VIP quarters, airlocks
- Deck Six - Armory 1, CSO's office, brig 1 and 2,
- Deck Seven - Cargo bays 3-4, holodeck 2, ten forward/after shift recreation lounge, gym, public bathroom with sonic showers
- Deck Eight - Science laboratories, astrometrics,
- Deck Ninth - Crew quarters, public bathroom with sonic showers, public crew locker room
- Deck Ten - Shuttlebay, airponics bay/hydroponic garden, science laboratories
- Deck Eleven - Main engineering, Cetacean ops navigation, main computer core, Dilithium vault
- Deck Twelfth - Deuterium storage
- Deck Thirteenth - Deuterium storage
- Deck Fourteen - Holodeck 3, conference room 2, airlocks, bathroom, Transporter rooms 3-4, cargo bays 5-6, science laboratories
- Deck Fifteen - Antimatter storage and generation centre
Starship section design[]
TBA
Known ships in service[]
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656-J)
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The starship class is named after one of the most notable Starfleet Captains in Federation history - Kathryn Janeway.
- A Janeway class ship is a very prestigious placement for captains and crew as they are among the largest, most capable and most powerful vessels within the Federation with history dating back to the 24th century.
- Michael Burnham described it as a bullet of a ship built for action. While Jet Reno called the Janeway-class fast, relatively compact, yet still smart.