| STARSHIP CLASS | |
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| Wallenberg-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Federation, Starfleet |
| Type: | Warp-capable ferries Transport |
| Service period: | 25th century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 170 meters (w/o mission pods) |
| Width: | 65 meters (w/o mission pods) |
| Height: | 40 meters (w/o mission pods) |
| Mass: | N/A |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 10 (w/o mission pods) |
| Crew: | 83 (standard crew complement) 1,000 (emergency capacity w/mission pods) |
| Speed: | Warp 8.5 Impulse speeds |
| Armaments: | Phaser cannons |
| Defences: | Deflector shields |
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The Wallenberg class is a technologically advanced type of starship utilised by Starfleet in the 25th century.
History[]
The Wallenberg class was designed in the late 24th century as a replacement for the Federation's aging cargo tugs, with a relatively simple design portfolio: accomplish cargo towing missions with reliability and endurance. The Wallenberg class was submitted by the Tellarites in consideration for the advanced starship design bureau where it was eventually approved beating out numerous other proposals including from Benzites, Betazoids, Trill, Bolians, and numerous other Federation species.
The Tellarites, in their proposal, stated that it would accommodate only cargo and colony pods that were self-sustaining, which would streamline construction and minimize the possibilities of component failure. It would have a high-warp speed considering the mass ratio made possible by a powerful warp core, low-level phasers and deflector shields with no torpedoes, comprehensive life support systems, and would have a Tritanium-Duranium space-frame composition.
By 2380, they were designated as type-17 cargo tug and several of these starships were already under construction in the Sol Sector exclusively, specifically at the San Francisco Fleet Yards and Utopia Planitia. However, not in any significant numbers as the plan was to gradually phase out the existing tug fleet first. This changed in early 2381 when Starfleet was given the assignment to evacuate Romulu under the threat of supernova. Production orders were increased significantly up to virtually unlimited numbers in order to accommodate the massive undertaking of evacuating an entire plant full of people. With a full train of colony pods, a Wallenberg class could take a thousand people per trip. It would take 250 of them to move a million people per month due to the distance of about 20 light-years to the evacuation site.
To speed up production, Starfleet dramatically increased its use of synths at Utopia Planitia and reallocated material, resources and personnel from literally everywhere else in the entire Federation to the shipyards. The likes of which hadn't been seen since the Dominion war and wasn't seen again until the Iconian war.
Between 2381 and 2385, nearly 10,000 of these ships were built, but even a fleet of that size wouldn't have been able to fully evacuate the planet in time. Between Romulan military assets and other starships, though, Starfleet was tentatively optimistic that the bulk of the population could be evacuated before the predicted demise of the Romulan sun.
Disaster struck in 2385, on first contact day, when the bulk of the Wallenberg class fleet was at Utopia Planitia, rogue Synths destroyed the shipyards, the entire fleet, and the majority of the planet's surface, which put an instant halt to the evacuation efforts. While there were still several hundred transports off world, they were not nearly enough to complete the evacuation. The attack on Mars was discovered to have been a move by the Iconians who remote-hacked the positronic neural nets of the synth workforce causing them to deactivate planetary defenses and burn everything. It devastated Starfleet's ship building capabilities for years after, destroyed the martian colonies resulting in the deaths of 100,000 civilians and officers, significantly reduced the evacuation efforts, strained diplomatic relations, and eliminated massive amounts of resources.
The remaining Wallenberg class ships were either retrofit to full Starfleet standards and assigned to important strategic cargo routes such as moving starship parts between shipyards or fuel tanker duties or passed to civilian agencies and private groups for freight transport duties. By 2399-2401, the class is still in service with an expected remaining duration of 80 years before being replaced.
Technical data[]
Propulsion[]
The warp drive onboard Wallenberg class vessels have been enhanced with some features found in the Galaxy class warp core and using historical context from the NX-class, resulting in the ability to expand its subspace warp field significantly to accomplish warp towing of other ships similar to the California class or Magee class.
FTL[]
Warp[]
The warp drive, enabled by two small warp nacelles that straddle the cargo pod, worked by generating subspace fields to form a bubble of selective space-time displacement that enveloped the exterior of the starship, distorting the local spacetime continuum and allowing it to "ride" on said distortion at velocities that could greatly exceed the speed of light as determined by the theory of relativity. The bubble carries the ship along with it. This also had the physical effect of reducing the inertial mass of any object encompassed by the warp field.
Because the ship isn't moving relative to spacetime in its own frame of reference (the inside of the bubble), the light-speed limit as determined by the theory of relativity doesn't apply. Nevertheless, the speed of the drive was measured in "factors" with the maximum sustainable speed being factor 8.5 which is 1,253.32 times the speed of light and 0.14 light years/per 1 hour or 3.43 light years/per 1 earth-standard solar day. The cruising speed is factor 8 which is 1,024 times the speed of light or 2.8 light years/per 1 earth-standard solar day (0.12 light years/per 1 hour).
Given its top speed, it is considered "slow" by starship standards but this is is still enormously fast for the sheer mass they are transporting, given that they can pull up to five cargo pods.
Sub-light[]
TBA
Crew support systems[]
TBA
Energy generation[]
Ships of this class are powered by a class 7 antimatter x matter warp core which generated enormous quantities of electro-plasma enabled electricity through controlled explosive collisions releasing pure photons (light energy) which is then harnessed directly into FTL as well as several other major systems. This is specifically accomplished via the 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 series of magnets and a Dilithium matrix. A distinctive feature of the class 7 drive was its four simultaneously operating matter and antimatter injector feeds. Wallenberg class ships do not possess a recrystallizer (theta-matrix compositor) to extend the structural integrity of the ships crystal store though there were calls by some in Starfleet Operations Command to retrofit the active fleet with them.
Additionally, it uses a Transkinetic chamber and Radiometric converters, among other things: The residual anti-matter from the warp core is then processed in the transkinetic chamber, where it's broken down on the subatomic level. The theta radiation produced by the trilithium resin is absorbed by a series of radiometric converters allowing the recycling of energy in order to use it to power the majority of systems ranging from life support to replicators and illumination while also eliminating all waste making it virtually 100% efficient. Wallenberg class vessels can operate with a power-conversion efficiency rating as low as 91%.
Furthermore, these vessels also utilise a series of impulse cores comprised 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 plasma conduit managed EPS grid. These powered the impulse drive as well as several other major systems and could also be routed to shields or weapons for a boost.
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam: The class also features multiple tractor beam emitters which project an attenuated beam of gravity outward toward a target that allows the manipulation of said object's trajectory, either to attract or repel.
Weapon systems[]
Phasers[]
Wallenberg class ships are armed with low-yield phase-modulated particle cannons, referred to as "pop-guns", designed only to break up asteroids and meteors. They fire pulsed bursts of directed rapid-nadion particle discharge capsules.
It is possible to increase the weapons' yield by rerouting the impulse relays and tapping power directly from the impulse engines.
Defensive systems[]
Shields[]
TBA
Design[]
The ship's angular primary hull is roughly rectangular, with 'wings' flaring out on the aft end that contain the ship's two powerful impulse engines. The bridge module is located in the center of the hull, on a slightly raised superstructure that also contains the majority of the crew quarters. Internally, the primary hull is dominated by the warp core and fuel reserves. Underslung from the primary hull are two massive tractor beam emitters, located in cylinders with forward and aft apertures. These tractor beams are used to move cargo pods in to place under the secondary hull, which contains additional crew quarters and the magnetic latching mechanism that allows the ship to grip its cargo pods.
The class is 170 meters long (557 feet) without mission pods, 65 meters wide (213 feet), and 40 meters (131 feet) tall with each one of the ten decks being 4 meters tall on average. It has an expected retrofit cycle of 10 years and 20 years for major retrofits while having an expected hull duration period of 100 years.
Cargo pods[]
Ships of this type are capable of attaching to a wide variety of cargo pods, but the standard model in use is a roughly box-shaped unit with a hexagonal cross-section. These range from bulk cargo to biological transport (i.e. plants and animals) to fluid transport (deuterium fuel or other), and are each capable of carrying a massive amount of cargo, equivalent to 30,000 metric tonnes or more.
Each of these pods has its own self-sufficient fusion reactor or fuel cell network, making it independent from the larger tug, which eliminates the need for a complex umbilical system. They have magnetic connections on their front and rear sections, allowing them to form chains of great length. In-system, chains of 10 or more are not uncommon, but five is the maximum number of pods a Wallenberg class transport can move at acceptable warp speeds.
For colonial missions, they tow specially-built cargo pods that have been equipped for personnel transport. These modules are each capable of carrying two hundred colonists on trips of several weeks - up to 3 months. Upon arrival at the colony site, they can detach from the ship and land under their own power. In emergencies, they can also be used as lifeboats, as they have their own power and life support. There are connections on the bow and stern of these pods that allow people and power to pass between the pods, which allows them to pool their resources for maximum efficiency.
Each pod has its own sickbay and twenty-four person limit transporter pad. The sickbay is usually staffed with just a Mark II EMH (Emergency Medical Hologram) system. The transporter can function on its own, or it can use the Wallenberg's primary transporter system as a relay: the Wallenberg class has high-powered transporters that can move large amounts of people at once, which is ideal during evacuation missions.
A variant of the colony pods, medical pods contain patient accommodations for over a hundred and can also land on a planet's surface, often as the centerpiece of a field hospital. Generally, a Wallenberg class will bring several of these to a disaster site and use them to support dedicated hospital ships, or might carry a train of one medical pod and four colony pods for evacuation missions where wounded are expected.
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