| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Oracle-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Type: | Mobile Agricultural station Support starship |
| Service period: | 31st century 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 2,109.43 meters |
| Width: | N/A |
| Height: | N/A |
| Mass: | 10.1 million metric tons |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 1 (agricultural) 5 |
| Crew: | N/A |
| Speed: | Impulse speeds Quantum slipstream drive |
| Armaments: | Phasers Tractor beams |
| Defences: | Polarised hull |
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The Oracle class is a technologically advanced type of starship operated by Starfleet in the 32nd century typically utilised as a Mobile agricultural station.
History[]
Technical data[]
Life support[]
- UV light drones
- Gravity simulation drive
- Inertia dampeners
- Heat shield
- Radiation shield
- Oxygen generators
Materials[]
- Hull
- The primary space-frame foundations of the class is comprised out of reinforced duranium alloy.
- The classes enclosure is composed out of holographic containment walls and EM force fields
Design[]
The hull of this ship class consisted of a wide, segmented saucer section with a cylinder-shaped negative space running vertically through its center. Horizontally, the middle section was recessed compared to the larger diameter of the upper and lower sections.
A wide, angular shuttlebay was attached to the hull for access. It's interior included water and dense vegetation arranged in a forest or rainforest managed by automated anti-grav drones/rigs. That landscape was visible from above the ship.
Inside, a walkway-bridge led from the docking port to the edge of the inner ring. The inner ring serves as the Oracle's nerve center and primary habitat area where Starfleet personnel are stationed. The inner ring has a number of offices, a central command area where every aspect of the station is controlled and monitored from, crew quarters, and engineering sections.
Propulsion[]
FTL[]
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 Oracle 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 Oracle 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[]
For travel at sublight velocities, Oracle class vessels possess 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.
Energy generation[]
Oracle class ships utilise a networked series of twenty four high-energy fusion reactors that are fueled by refined Deuterium and 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 emitters: It is equipped with numerous tractor beam generators that project beams of attenuated graviton particles at a target thus allowing the manipulation of its trajectory. They can be weaponized to cut through ships and objects.
Weapon systems[]
Phasers[]
The class is armed with sixteen swivel-mounted phaser turrets that fire directed bolts of tetryon plasma particles at a target using an automatic frequency rotation program to combat enemy adaptation.
Defensive systems[]
- Polarised plating: In lieu of regular deflector shields, the Oracle class incorporates a polarization matrix to minimize potential damage from weapons fire and other space hazards. Through the application of electromagnetic power, the transparent hull of the ship can be made several orders of magnitude harder than it is in its non-polarized state while also making it opaque.
Mission objectives[]
According to Michael Burnham, Oracle class ships are built to be capable of placing themselves around a large meteor and using specialised tools/methods to strip it dry of everything useful to Starfleet. It was also meant as a long term fix and alternative to replicators for areas suffering from starvation as well as deep space stations/outposts.
Support vessels[]
- Unknown number of escape pods
- Sixty three Worker bees
- Six Type 6A Runabouts
- Twelve Type 38 Shuttlecraft
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