| STARSHIP CLASS | |
|---|---|
| Wells-class | |
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| Affiliation: | Federation, Starfleet |
| Type: | Temporal cruiser |
| Service period: | 29th century |
| Dimensions | |
| Length: | 374.5 meters |
| Width: | 243.88 meters |
| Height: | 65.35 meters |
| Mass: | 700,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Decks: | 15 |
| Crew: | 43 |
| Speed: | Time travel Warp speed Sub-light |
| Armaments: | Transphasers Disruptor cannons |
| Defences: | Deflector shields Navigational deflector Temporal shielding |
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The Wells class is a Federation starship design-type operated by the Department of Temporal Investigations sanctioned under Starfleet and the Temporal Integrity Commission in a possible version of the 29th century of the Prime timeline. It's mission statement to protect the timeline against temporal incursions.
History[]
Technical Data[]
Specifications[]
The hull of a Wells class starship consists of multiple layers. The outermost layer of the hull is comprised of plasticized tritanium mesh plating and this "skin" applied a low-level electromagnetic field to distribute or dampen the effects of spatial radiation, energy-related phenomena, and scrambled tractor beams by modulating itself. This field also absorbed several forms of electromagnetic radiation, allowing it to remain undetected by the sensor technology of the 22nd-to-24th century.
The inner layer of the hull was comprised out of polyduranide neutronium for extended durability lined with Trellium-D.
Design[]
The Wells class was constructed and launched from the Copernicus Ship Yards orbiting Earth's lunar moon. It was arrowhead-shaped and featured an exterior configuration familiar to that of Starfleet vessels of earlier centuries even as far back to the 24th century. Albeit, in a more compact and advanced arrangement with the hull specifically designed for voyages through time and as such contained carefully crafted temporal geometry contours that could not be replicated. The bridge was located on top of the primary hull.
Standing at 374.5 meters long with a beam of 243.88 meters and a height of 65.35 meters, it weighed 700,000 metric tons and had nineteen decks.
Compartments[]
TBA
Systems[]
Self-Repair Mode[]
Essentially an advanced transporter technology, when hull breaches are detected by the main computer and sealed by emergency force fields, at the nearest convenience hull-plating is mass replicated and immediately transported across damaged sections of the hull, where its molecular structure could be perfectly integrated with the existing hull. Furthermore, it automatically replicates the destroyed or damaged contents of the damaged section, effectively allowing the ship to self-repair.
Main Power Plant[]
Ships of this class are powered by a class 17 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 warp 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 and anti-deuterium, regulated through a matrix of magnets and mediated through an assembly of dilithium crystals, which were nonreactive with antimatter when subjected to high-frequency electromagnetic fields. This reaction produced a highly energetic plasma, called electro-plasma or warp plasma, which was then channeled by conduits through the electro-plasma system. While inside the assembly chamber, Dilithium was recrystallized through a theta-matrix compositor to extend the natural longevity by repairing its subatomic integrity - a process using high-energy photons and gamma rays.
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 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.
Furthermore, these vessels also utilise a series of impulse cores comprised of a network of multiple spherical fusion reactors that are fuelled by Deuterium and make use of a nuclear fusion process to generate energised plasma that is then distributed along the same 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.
Propulsion[]
Time drive[]
Featuring a 'chrono-deflector', also referred to as the time drive or the temporal displacement drive, the device operated by generating a powerful tachyon pulse of alternating frequencies characterized by triquantum waves, which could then be directed to a specific time and place through coordinates projected as a resonant frequency. This act concentrated a large amount of high-energy neutrino emissions within the vicinity accompanied by tidal force graviton flux, similar to g-forces. The drive required a minimum input of 45 teradynes (four hundred-fifty meganewtons) from the ships systems.
Sub-light[]
Possessing 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 0.25 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 0.42 c which is close to half the speed of light and relatively warp factor 0.5.
Warp Drive[]
Vessels of this class 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 aka a "warp field". Subtly merged around the exterior, it enables the ship to 'ride' along a distortion. 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, Wells class ships alter the nature of the subspace field, such as causing it to move in a specific direction therefore actually accelerating the "bubble" and thus anything inside it into faster-than-light velocities without violating the natural laws of relativity despite being technically stationary.
The warp coils were produced from the minerals polysilicate verterium and monocrystal cortenum surrounding a core of densified tungsten-cobalt. As the wells class used tetryon plasma from the warp reactor which emitted multiflux gamma radiation, sustainable cruise speed was warp 7 and sustainable top speed was warp 9.982 with an emergency warp speed of 9.999 which is exponentially faster.
Warp Core Ejection[]
In the event of a warp core breach, a Wells-class starship could eject their warp core. This procedure required the authorization code of the chief engineer or a member of the senior staff, most preferably the captain and/or first officer. The core was ejected through the ejection port on the underside of the secondary hull with magnetic rails inside the channel to accelerate the core once disengaged thereby firing it away from the ship and preventing any contact during the ejection.
Tactical[]
- Tractor beam: Additionally, it possesses numerous multiphasic tractor beam emitters that projected attenuated low-level force fields that could manipulate gravitational forces to push or pull objects via placing spatial stresses on the object in specific areas, able to hold the "tractored" object in a fixed location or alter its position and/or trajectory.
Offensive Armament[]
Triphasers[]
With a range of approximately 300,000 kilometers, the Wells' main phasers incorporated a hybrid of transphasic torpedoes and standard starship type-XII phaser technologies to produce a devastating weapon, targeted via directional beams produced by the navigator or helmsman. Commonly referred to as triphasers or transphasers.
The transphasic technology works by generating a narrow subspace compression pulse. Upon impact, it delivers the pulse in an asymmetric superposition of multiple pulsating phase-resonant frequencies that can be specifically set to interfere and interact with the wave pattern of any molecular form.
Shields can only block one subcomponent of the pulse beam. The other subcomponents deliver the majority of the pulse to the target. Each beam has a different transphasic configuration, generated randomly by a dissonant feedback effect to prevent the enemy from predicting the configuration of the phase states. This means that transphasers literally 'slice' through the deflectors of a target ship or station, though armored targets and that protected by temporal shielding is more resistant.
The arrays require beam-focusing assemblies that use isolynium-cadmium sulfide crystals that channel the particles generated through the reaction chamber of protomatter, tekasite and trilithium ignited by and reacted upon by antiprotons amplified by a thermometric-particle intensification matrix. Thanks to the inclusion of trilithium, the weapons array release trace amounts of theta radiation, which leave a residue signature.
Disruptor Cannons[]
Furthermore, the ship was equipped with nine ship-mounted Varon-T disruptor cannons which fired a thorn-based rapid-radon energy beam, causing the target's molecular structure to be 'disrupted' ie; break apart at the molecular level. Appearing as retractable turrets which extended from the ship's hull when deployed and rotated as they were being targeted, instability in the array was compensated by polarizing the emitter matrix.
Maximum effective range was set at 730,000 kilometers, about double that of the transphasers, though the beam began to lose energy efficiency after 180,000 kilometers.
Defensive Capabilities[]
- Navigational Deflector: The navigational deflector projects a highly directional subspace carrier wave toward the front of the ship, and can be electronically traversed a total of 30° in each plane (left/right, up/down, with the ship’s orientation as reference). The carrier wave contains charged gravitons to clear space debris, asteroids, microscopic particles, and other objects from the path of the ship.
- Deflector Shields: Wells class ships possess advanced deflector shields that work in a layered defensive fashion as a volumetric field effect extended out from the networked shield generators, attempting to reduce the coherency of any beam attack and deflect other incoming weapons or impacts. The shield itself behaved in a manner similar to that of a thermally conductive material i.e. energy applied onto it was quickly diffused and re-radiated back into the environment through neutrino radiators. The field projectors were made of victurium-mercassium composite alloy and was scattered throughout the exterior hull, which decentralized the system and decreased the chance of all directional shields failing at once.
- Temporal Shields: Existing in a constant state of temporal flux and produced a level-9 tachyon disruption, vessels of this type were equipped with unique deflector technology boasting the sole function to protect against changes in the timeline allowing the ship and by proxy anyone or anything inside to remain unaffected to reality alterations.
Command and Operation[]
Developed by Dr. Noonian Soong, the positronic network is undoubtedly one of the most unique forms of computer ever fielded with it using the decay of positrons to form a sophisticated neural network. An advancement in submicron matrix transfer technology enabled the positronic brain to be converted into a computer core fit for a starship, leaving the wells class to be such equipped on her maiden voyage.
Positronic circuitry uses electrons and positrons in it's exotic matter form, positronium, and the binary 1's and 0's are determined by whether or not the electron or the positron bonds with another element in it. This allows for extremely dense circuitry but positronium is inherently unstable meaning the computer cores onboard are high-maintenance and are constructed from magnesite ore with a level-7 force field surrounding it, protecting from any potential gamma ray emissions.
The synthetic-neural pathways of the core constantly interconnect and rearrange themselves in the same way that bio-organic neurons do in humanoid brains, creating an instinctive processing and routing ability defined as ‘fuzzy logic’ that speeds up probability calculations and response time by thinking much like a living, breathing entity would for 'best guess' answers rather than running through every hypothetical scenario and running a thousand simulations. Next, fluidic processors that self-replicated their own silica-clusters reinforced the positronic ecosystem, these processors were based in axionic chips and created new pathways when the ship would perform new tasks, giving the computer the ability to effectively learn. The more complex tasks it had to perform; the more pathways were formed in its memory.
Polyhedronic quantum data storage was the principle method of memory space, each positronic neuron is essentially its own computer and with each one networked through axionic fluid and electron matrices, it formed a 'brain' and by rearranging the connections, or synapses, between positronic neurons, it stored information suspended in quantum-flux vortices.
For security, key systems are protected by a series of authorisation-based encryption codes. An example being: "4-7-Beta-Charlie" and "Baxter-841-Delta", cross-checked by voice-print recognition or DNA verification.