| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Spock-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Ni'var Federation, Starfleet |
| Type: | Heavy cruiser |
| Service period: | 32nd century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | N/A |
| Width: | N/A |
| Height: | N/A |
| Mass: | N/A |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | N/A |
| Crew: | 141 (standard crew complement) At least 1,500 (standard evacuation capacity) |
| Speed: | Warp speed Quantum slipstream Impulse |
| Armaments: | Plasma torpedoes Disruptors |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Cloaking device |
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The Spock class is a technologically advanced type of starship utilised by Ni'var and later Starfleet during the 32nd century.
History[]
When the USS Discovery-A spore-jumped into orbit around Ni'var in 3189, one Spock class heavy cruiser responded to the Starfleet vessel before standing down.
Later when Ni'var rejoined the Federation, the Spock class heavy cruisers were absorbed into Starfleet. One of these cruisers were destroyed while attempting to evacuate a starbase about to be engulfed by the unknown gravitational anomaly.
Technical data[]
Life support[]
- Oxygen generators
- Inertia dampeners
- Gravity plating
- Heat shield
- Radiation shield
- Replicators
- Structural integrity field
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam: Vessels of this class feature multiple tractor beam emitters that projects beams of attenuated gravity outward thus allowing the manipulation of a objects trajectory, either to attract or repel.
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 Spock class vessel was virtually impossible to locate using conventional means.
Weapon systems[]
Disruptors[]
Spock class vessels are armed with multiple disruptor arrays that cause damage to matter through exciting the molecular bonds of targets to such great extents that those bonds are weakened, and/or broken, by the energies emitted, which often manifest as explosive force. Particle composition of these disruptors were phased antiprotons, the antimatter counterpart of a regular proton.
In an effort to combat enemy adaptation, ships of this type utilise an automatic frequency rotation program to continuously and periodically alter the vibrational component.
Torpedoes[]
Using Romulan schematics, the Spock class is secondly equipped with torpedo launch banks that shoot out self-propelled and autonomously guided torpedoes armed with high-yield plasma warheads towards a target. The complement of which is 100 mark XXXI plasma torpedoes described as an encapsulated bullet of highly energized plasma particles using trilithium isotopes. Maximum effective tactical range is 4.05 million kilometers.
Defensive systems[]
- Deflector shields: For protection, the class features sophisticated forcefield armor that has proven to be regenerative employing said sub-routines in addition to self-adaptive matrices to compensate for enemy fire. It is comprised out of layered energetic distortion infused with graviton waves and can absorb kinetic forces as well as energy discharge for prolonged periods of time.
Propulsion[]
FTL[]
Warp[]
Ships of this class possess a warp drive on par with Federation standard specifications that function 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 9.99973523079 which is 87,600 times the speed of light or 10 light years per hour while the cruising speed isfactor 9.9975 which is 17,446.47 times the speed of light or 1 light year/per 0.5 hours.
Quantum slipstream[]
Similar to Transwarp conduits, the 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 Spock 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 Spock 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[]
Spock class ships 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, housed in the rear "hoop"-like structure, 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 0.75 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 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.
Energy generation[]
The ship class utilises Romulan designed singularity drives that provides power by utilizing the rotational movement of a quantum singularity, which is 29 percent efficient by orders of magnitude greater than a nuclear reactor, and more than four times as efficient as Earth's Sun. Dilithium is used in the engine to absorb the Hawking radiation and other energies released from the singularity including gamma radiation and converts it into a form compatible with Romulan power systems.
It utilises a series of impulse reactors, fueled by deuterium, which operates through a nuclear fusion process to produce energised plasma that is then distributed to secondary systems along a EPS grid run through polaric conduits.
Trivia[]
- The Vulcans designed the sub-light and FTL systems as well as life support, hull and computer systems. While the Romulans designed the energy systems, weapons, stealth systems, and shields. The exterior configuration was a remake of 22nd century Vulcan cruisers.
- Spock class is named after one of the most revered names in Vulcan/Romulan history; Ambassador Spock.